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Re: Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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Post by dottrap »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #43
andrewstuart wrote: post #21

Remember when .NET came out? Everything was .NET. As a result, no-one really had any idea what .NET actually was. Eventually we figured out it was "Microsoft's Java". Windows also went through a phase in which seemingly everything was Windows.

Even Sun Microsystems had a phase where they made thought-terminating illogical statements. My 2 favorites: "The network is the computer" - No, it's not, and Sun's tech at the time, just Unix servers, definitely did not have any enlightened concept of networking that others lacked. It had Berkeley sockets and NFS. Such a statement makes me think of single-system image cluster computing, or other cool stuff, but they…

> "We put the dot in dot-com" - ???

Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one.

For all you tech people like me that have problems answering to non-techie family members what you do, I thought that was an example of a beautiful succinct answer that still conveyed enough of an idea to be satisfying to laymen.

As for one I really hated from Sun: "Java Desktop System", which was just a distro with GNOME, and had nothing to do with Java.

Re: Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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Post by globalproctd »

tolmasky wrote: post #85

The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So what’s it for exactly? Who knows! But it’ll cost you an extra $20 and won’t even come in a different color like the “Pro” keyboards and mice. For a fun exercise go ask an Apple store employee this.

Apps and Games, genius.

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Post by sk5t »

agumonkey wrote: post #89
sk5t wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has gone through some pretty dark times w.r.t. naming stuff. Up there with "Windows" everything and absurdities like ".net Passport" was their unslakable thirst for "Active." ActiveX, Active Server Pages, Active Data Objects. However, none of it holds a candle to IBM's mania for making everything "Websphere."

are you saying websphere is not rational ?

Needs more Tivoli.

Re: Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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Post by dvdbloc »

jc__denton wrote: post #88
tolmasky wrote: post #85

The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So what’s it for exactly? Who knows! But it’ll cost you an extra $20 and won’t even come in a different color like the “Pro” keyboards and mice. For a fun exercise go ask an Apple store employee this.

Additional app storage and the ability to store/download media in apps that support it.

How many apps will I have to install to run out of space on my 32GB Apple TV? Curious how many people this has actually happened to...

Re: Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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Post by anyfoo »

tolmasky wrote: post #85

The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So what’s it for exactly? Who knows! But it’ll cost you an extra $20 and won’t even come in a different color like the “Pro” keyboards and mice. For a fun exercise go ask an Apple store employee this.

Apps, e.g. games?

Re: Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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Post by etaioinshrdlu »

dottrap wrote: post #91
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even Sun Microsystems had a phase where they made thought-terminating illogical statements. My 2 favorites: "The network is the computer" - No, it's not, and Sun's tech at the time, just Unix servers, definitely did not have any enlightened concept of networking that others lacked. It had Berkeley sockets and NFS. Such a statement makes me think of single-system image cluster computing, or other cool stuff, but they…

> "We put the dot in dot-com" - ??? Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one. For all you tech people like me that have problems answering to non-techie family members what you do, I thought that was an example of a beautiful succinct answer that still conveyed enough of an idea to be satisfying to laymen. As for one I really hated from Sun: "Java Desktop System", which was just a distr…

Yesss... The name Java Desktop System made my soul hurt. The funny thing though is it was an okay GUI environment. Conservative and thoughtful. It was 10 years late to the GUI party though :)

Re: Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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Post by js2 »

Also, the Apple TV Movies app has a wish list which doesn't sync with anything.

And, sometimes when you search for a movie using Siri on Apple TV it opens in Movies where you can add it to your wish list, but sometimes it opens in the TV app where you can't. To avoid this, you have to go into Movies, then use Search, then use your voice to fill in the title, then it will come up in Movies where you can add it to the wish list.

And don't even get me started on having different Apple IDs that you need to use for iCloud and iTunes because btw, you can't merge Apple IDs. And if one of your Apple IDs is from the .mac/.me era, you can't change its primary email address.

But other than that it's great.

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