Jobs on DVR in the Apple TV, the MacBook Air, and the Kindle

Does Jobs realized that that "Kindle Reader" is walking out the door. It's twice as locked down as the iPod and more money, and yet people are buying it by the truck lot.

At $400 dollars, it's way too much money and can't read PDF files -- but still people want it. "Floors my ass."

Link for previous comment: http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html

Jobs was overstating the fact, but Americans are reading less. In particular, Americans are reading less literature. It seems we are doing more and more of our reading in short bursts at blogs and websites.

Not long winded enough, the point is, there are already plenty of devices that do what the apple tv does, just not with a pvr, the apple tv could be the only real Tivo killer with a pvr, My Tivo service now includes ads, will change channels to record them, and charges a monthly service, but it rules the tv, like the ipod rules music, only the ipod doesn't make you pay to use it.

PS3

Easily upgrade hard drive to 250 ( see PS3 Manuel or you tube )

Stream video ( NullRiver Medialink ) I Would Say Orb but i love the mac.

Surf the net with the built in web browser

Play blue ray disc's and Up sample standard dvd

Blue Tooth remote, no direct line of sight need for IR

Stores pictures, music, Video,

Plays games

No annual fee to play other people on line

wii

Stream video with orb

Surf the net with opera

Plays games

SD card for pictures music and yes video

Mac Pro Desk Top

All of the above and more with elgato pvr stick connected to 40" LCD

I Don't Own a Xbox, or want one, but I Do Want A Apple TV With PVR to Replace My TIVO

And I Don't Care How Thin You Make It, 13" Is Still Not A 12" Power Book Or Sub Notebook

Yeah, like they make Steve buy his own Apple gear.

At the risk of being cynical, I think he's flat wrong about A-TV. I think he might as well start engineering take 3. Truth be told I don't much care for the notion of "renting movies" via Itunes. A-TV strikes me as mildly intriguing, but I don't think I would seriously consider getting it without DVR capability. As I see it, all my 230 dollars buys me in the capability to watch something on my TV that I can already watch from my computer five feet to the right of my TV. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict A-TV (Mk.2) won't do substantially better then A-TV Mk.1. Seems like Tivo's still the way to go.

Obviously Steve has never been on a bus or train (he probably has the iBus run on old Powerbook batteries) because I see almost everyone reading, I'm sure that Borders is filing for Bankruptcy any day now...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion-of-steve-jobs/index.html

This is the original NYT article. It seems that people on Engadget are not bothering to read it, as I have pointed out in a post there.

He mentioned it (not by DVR per se) here:

The model will not extend to cable television, he insisted. “We’re not going to go there with the cable cards,” he said, referring to the relatively open cable industry connectors that are gradually allowing companies like TiVo to replace the standard set-top box. “That whole industry, their go-to-market strategy is pretty loopy, and it’s fractured,” he said. “Our model is like DVD.”