@AppleInsider: iTV a no-show at Macworld 2007
posted in Hardware |AppleInsider reports that while Steve Jobs will likely discuss their forthcoming iTV during his Macworld keynote, but that the product won’t ship until late January or early February. Frankly, I don’t find this at all surprising. For one thing, Apple said iTV would be released in the first quarter of 2007, and a launch within a month obviously falls within that range. Also, it is not at all uncommon for Apple to introduce products at Macworld and announce a shipping date of 1-2 months hence.
But AppleInsider goes on to cite sources who share details, such as that Apple was planning to make iTV available at Macworld, but that quality problems will prevent them from doing so. According to AppleInsider, the quality problems primarily relate to getting an OS X lite version working sufficiently for release. Apple hasn’t indicated that iTV will include Mac OS X Lite (or whatever it will be called), but these reports suggest that it is indeed coming, and it might be used on the new Apple mobile phone. If true, perhaps this is part of what Apple meant when it said the first 30 years were just the beginning.
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