The difference between Apple and everyone else
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The difference between Apple and everyone else
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#2Apple TV is meant to be a media browsing and consumption device, whereas Google TV includes Chrome(with Flash).
You can use an Android phone to control Google TV anyway.
I would love to see Apple solving the problem with typing using a remote(especially things like URLs) without using resorting to an iPhone or iPod Touch.
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#3It seems obvious, but the number of people (and companies) who don't get this at all is astonishing.
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#4The Sony remote looks like a label maker. I'm surprised they didn't style it a bit better.
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#5Apple TV is meant to be a media browsing and consumption device, whereas Google TV includes Chrome(with Flash). You can use an Android phone to control Google TV anyway. I would love to see Apple solving the problem with typing using a remote(especially things like URLs) without using resorting to an iPhone or iPod Touch.
"I would love to see Apple solving the problem with typing using a remote(especially things like URLs)..."
They already solved it; you aren't supposed to be typing URLs while laying on your couch watching TV.
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#6So if you want to search for something on TV, which GoogleTV is supposed to enable you to do, how would you do that using Apple's three-button remote? I have an idea about a prayer and Steve Jobs, but wouldn't elaborate on it.
I think the blog post doesn't have a point at all, since it compares apples to pears.
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#7It's the balance between engineering and design. Apple naturally knows how to find that center, most others seem to skew too far in either direction.
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#8Apple TV is meant to be a media browsing and consumption device, whereas Google TV includes Chrome(with Flash). You can use an Android phone to control Google TV anyway. I would love to see Apple solving the problem with typing using a remote(especially things like URLs) without using resorting to an iPhone or iPod Touch.
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#9So if you want to search for something on TV, which GoogleTV is supposed to enable you to do, how would you do that using Apple's three-button remote? I have an idea about a prayer and Steve Jobs, but wouldn't elaborate on it. I think the blog post doesn't have a point at all, since it compares apples to pears.
You'd do it by grabbing your iPad off of the coffee table, searching for something, and clicking 'send to TV.'
So much easier and simpler than trying to make everything do everything. Leave the keyboard to a device that's better used with one, and make the two work together nicely.
I still think that little 'Oh, and I can push stuff to my tv with my iPhone' feature they skimmed over at the Ping event will end up huge.
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#10So if you want to search for something on TV, which GoogleTV is supposed to enable you to do, how would you do that using Apple's three-button remote? I have an idea about a prayer and Steve Jobs, but wouldn't elaborate on it. I think the blog post doesn't have a point at all, since it compares apples to pears.
I think you're missing the point. The comparison of the remotes isn't intended to point out the "better design" of the Apple version. The comparison is of the overall approach to user experience. It's obvious that Apple doesn't think people want to search when sitting in front of their TV's, whereas Google almost can't approach a problem that it doesn't think centers around search.
This is not to say that there haven't been rudimentary search capabilities in the Apple TV. It's just not a focus.