Steve Jobs has taken part in a solo interview at the Wall Street Journal’s conference D: All Things Digital. Walt Mossberg and Steve Jobs sat down together this afternoon to have a one-to-one discussion about Apple’s future.
Steve Jobs holds up iPhone while talking to Walt MossbergThe following is a brief overview from the D5 website.
Apple has announced that YouTube videos will be able to be viewed on Apple TV as of mid-June.
“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “YouTube is a worldwide sensation, and Apple TV is bringing it directly from the Internet onto the widescreen TV in your living room.”
Thousands of the most current and popular YouTube videos will be available on Apple TV at launch in mid-June, with YouTube adding thousands more each week until the full YouTube catalogue is available this Autumn. With Apple TV’s stunning interface and simple Apple Remote, users can easily navigate through YouTube’s familiar video browsing categories or search for specific videos. YouTube members can also log-in to their YouTube accounts on Apple TV to view and save their favourite videos.
Along with this announcement Apple also made it known that a new build-to-order 160GB version of the Apple TV will be available on 1st June 2007. The new larger hard drive offers four times the storage for up to 200 hours of video, 36,000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination of each.
Apple TV with a 160GB hard drive will be available 1st June for a suggested retail price of $399 (£199). The YouTube feature for Apple TV will be available as a free software update in mid-June.
AppleInsinder reports that American retailer Target will become the second third-party retailer to sell Apple TV.
Target will join Best Buy who agreed to sell Apple TV just last month.
Those familiar with the plans report that Target will attempt to have some capacity of Apple TVs at several locations by the months end. It is also reported that Target will setup Apple TV demonstration areas, similar to those at Apple Retail Stores.
Apple has begun airing adverts advertising the Apple TV on television networks across America. The adverts began running sometime over the weekend without any word from Apple.
The advert features the film ‘School of Rock’ playing on an iMac and as the camera pans away the commentary explains how media is on both your Mac and the TV as well as the iPod.
AppleTVHacks.com has taken up some investigation into the layout of Apple’s online store page for the Apple TV. The page appears to indicate multiple Apple TV products as opposed to a single one.
On a similar note, LoopRumors reports that Apple is working on a software update that will utilise the Internet to display weather forecasts, news, and RSS feeds.
Apple TV Hacks Progress
AppleTVHacks.net has published a tutorial on how to run Mac OS X on your Apple TV unit.
Mac OS X running on an Apple TVA video of the hack and Mac OS X running is available on Google Video.
Possible iPhone Launch Date
Several reports point towards June 11 as being the day the iPhone will be released. News.com has phoned Cingular customer services and spoke with a manager that stated that June 11 was the day.
The date coincides with the first day of WWDC 2007; which will run from June 11th to the 15th.
Files on Apple TV Hint at DVR Functions
As exploration of the Apple TV continues some users have come across a set of Automator actions that appear to point towards a future implementation of DVR functions.
Automator Actions on Apple TVMost of the actions are bog-standard but a few hint at future DVR functions;
3D Interface for Leopard?
An Ars Technica blog post has caused a flurry of activity on the Mac web, the post claims that the Finder in Leopard will feature a 3D user interface.
The post is self-described as “wild speculation” so by no means should this be taken as even a rumour.
The article comes on the back of speculation about a new Finder for Leopard, current speculation revolves around Core Animation and how it could play a major role in re-modelling user interfaces.
As far as World of Apple has viewed Core Animation is unable to revolutionise the Finder on its own, Core Animations main purpose is to automatically animate changes in the user interface without a huge amount extra coding from the developer.
Apple Offers Podcasting Showcase
Apple has compiled a selection of podcasts aimed at users of Apple TV, Apple describes the selection as “podcasts that can make your television shine”.
On a similar note Macworld.com reports that Sony will join the iTunes Store with several television shows; ‘News Radio’, ‘Till Death’, and the original “Spiderman”, “Starsky and Hutch”, and “Charlies Angels.”
Apple TV Upgrades, Hacks
iTunes showing an Apple TV unit with an upgraded 120GB internal hard drive | Image courtesy Gizmodo.comApple TV has been reaching more and more consumers as the week ends. Yesterday the Apple TV’s innards were revealed for the first time and today the first person has swapped the standard hard drive for a 120GB drive.
A Somethingawful.com forum post and ever growing thread contains conversation of the first hacking of the Apple TV. The hacking at the moment consists of allowing the unit to play more than just the bog-standard video standards, such as Xvid.
The process involves inserting an Open Source plug-in known as Perian into the /Library/Quicktime directory of the Apple TV.
The Apple TV “explorers” are also discovering many things about how Apple TV operates. The unit’s run a stripped down version of OS X listed as, “Apple TV OS 10.4.7 (8N5107).” The unit’s also contain Intel Dothan processors running at 1GHz, 256MB DDR2 SDRAM, 40GB Fujitsu ATA hard drives and nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics processors capable of displaying a maximum resolution of 1280 x 720.
TechRestore.com has got its hands on an Apple TV and dissected it.
A peek inside Apple TV | Courtesy TechRestore.comThe dissection shows off the nVidia GPU, Intel CPU as well as the built-in wireless card.
News.com has revealed that Apple TV will be available in all 822 Best Buy stores in the U.S. starting Tuesday. The initial shipment will be 3000 units, but even this allows Best Buy to put Apple TV on sale a full two weeks before any other third party retailer.
Manuals and Support Documentation Revealed
Apple today posted online support documentation for Apple TV, as well as a download-able PDF of the manual.
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