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Sharp and Apple: What the Jefferies report really says

There's a lot more to the relationship than the rumors of an Apple-branded TV suggest

Source: Jefferies

Credit AllThingsD's John Paczkowski for finding the most headline-worthy nugget in the report issued Tuesday by Jefferies analyst Peter Misek on his recent trip to Japan.

The thrust of Paczkowski's story -- Apple Television Could Be Ready for Commercial Production by Feb. 2012 -- was echoed...

Apple airs new iPad 2 “Love” ad, showcasing how the tablet is used in daily lives

Apple has begun airing their new “Love” iPad 2 ad, which showcases how the device is used in the daily live of people. In the ad you can see people using Apple’s iMovie to edit video, a basketball coach showing his team new plays, a band mixing their music, a designer, and more. The narrator...

Video: Steve Jobs plays the TV/PC convergence for laughs

He had the audience in stitches at a 1998 convention of higher education IT directors

Steve Jobs' thoughts about television evolved in the years since this fuzzy YouTube video was shot at CAUSE 1998, the annual convention of the College and University Systems Exchange. But even then -- one year after his return to Apple (AAPL) -- he was clearly...

Amazon drops the price of Apple TV and calls it the 2010 model

Interesting move today from Amazon.  Not only did they drop the price of Apple TV to $89.99 matching Best Buy, but they are now calling it the ’2010′ edition.  Could that mean an update is on the horizon?  At the very least, it is a solid deal. //   Related articles Apple TV $89 + Free...

Sony’s Stringer: “No doubt that Apple is working on changing the traditional television set”

A rendition of an Apple-branded television set. The WSJ reports that amid losing money on every television set they make, Sony somehow has a strategy for redemption. Stringer declined to provide details about what Sony is developing but said “there’s a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set”. He he has...

CBS reportedly turned down Apple TV deal

It turns out Apple may have been interested in television after all. We recently found out from Steve's Jobs's biography that Jobs was exploring the idea of an Apple-branded television set and now a report from GigaOM reveals that Apple was pursuing...

An Apple-branded TV set? Not likely, says Toni Sacconaghi

Sanford Bernstein's top Apple analyst is dubious about Steve Jobs' television dreams

Sacconaghi's vision of Apple TV 3.0. Click to enlarge.

Analysts have been arguing for ages about whether Apple (AAPL) is ever going to enter the $118 billion/year flat-screen TV market. But two things have changed in the past month:

1. Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs...

Feature: Burn, media, burn! Why we destroy comics, disco records, and TVs

On July 4, 1975 a group of artists assembled in front of the Cow Palace in San Francisco and delivered a legendary performance piece called "Media Burn." Members of the Ant Farm collective stacked a...

Apple launches three new iPhone 4S ads

Apple has kicked its iPhone 4S ad campaign into high gear with three new commercials featuring Siri, the new 8 megapixel camera, and integration with iCloud. All three ads are available on Apple's official YouTube channel, and they're also embedde...

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The moment I read the “I’ve Cracked the TV” quote from the Steve Jobs bio, I knew what the subject of the next few months at the rumor mill would be. Here it is in context: “‘I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,’ [Jobs told Isaacson]. ‘It would...

NYT: Siri-powered Apple HDTV is definitely coming

Over at the New York Times' Bits blog, Nick Bilton has added his well-sourced voice to the rising chorus of yea-sayers on the rumor of an Apple-branded television set, arriving at some date yet uncertain. Bilton's reporting, stretching back over a ye...

NYT: Siri-Controlled Apple Television “A Guaranteed Product”

According to an article by Nick Bilton on The New York Times, Apple is indeed working on a television product that could be publicly announced in late 2012, and released in early 2013. Rumors of an Apple-made television, not just a TV set like the Apple TV, go back to the original announcement of the...