Apps for Apple TV: sign me up

+1 and brilliant idea.

As a wave 1 adopter of AppleTV, I still find it very, very hard to "convince" others of the merits of the AppleTV. Anything could help.

I think Apps for the AppleTV are a natural extension.

The MacMini provides the functionality people are wanting - but not in an easy to use (and elegant) interface - not something that works from 10 foot away.

As for the comment that the AppleTV and iPhone are vastly different interfaces, I think that's actually wrong. The Mac can have smaller text & options than the aTV, but both the iPhone and AppleTV have less screen realestate - they fit roughly the same number of options/choices, so the interface paradigm becomes comparable in several ways. (Of course the AppleTV isn't touch!).

Apple could do alot more with the AppleTV. I'm not sure why they haven't. Hopefully the iPhone will kick off interest in 2 ways
1) the app store model
2) interaction with the iPhone

Hopefully interaction with the iPhone will motivate Apple much more to move things along. What if an iPhone user (enthusiastic about something they've found) can just "flick" it onto the AppleTV - eg: a youTube video you're watching on the iPhone flicks across to the big screen, a website you're reading, an email with funny video/pictures flicked to the aTV, or your own videos/music.

Also, a better remote app would be required and useful of course. Could we consider syncing the iPhone via the AppleTV? (not because it's the best idea... but if you think about how that would work it makes you shuffle how you think about our media)

No way Apple will ever do DVR! But they will add applications. My guess is this is the product transition they are talking about.

http://mac-dreams.blogspot.com/

I'd be all about hooking it up to Hulu, Vimeo, etc, as well as Netflix streaming, and a Pandora client.... sign me up!

Safari? DVR? - meh. i don't really care about those two. they'd be neat, i guess, but not a priority for me.

Hi, this is Luck from AppleTVSource and AppleTVHacks.net. Thanks for the link to AppleTVHacks.net, by the way.

Anyhow, I've been writing about getting 3rd party apps on the Apple TV since last year. So far nothing from Apple. I don't know if the App Store will motivate them to open up the Apple TV. They obviously know the benefits of opening up the Apple TV. However, they are still refusing to do it.

I wrote way too many articles on this subject that I am not going make any kind of speculations until I see it happening for real.

Hey Scott,

Does the Apple TV have anything in common with the internets and the Google?

MLB.TV Mosaic, please.

What I really want is a fully functioning safari so I can access video streams on my TV. If not that, at least give me screen sharing capabilities with my mac.

Apple TV provides us with a dozen hours a week of video podcasts - including full-screen 16x9 HD from Tekzilla and Command-N. More content would be great. Streaming internet radio has been a fine addition in recent months.

Really great would be the minimal functionality that WebTV offered before it was purchased and sat in the corner by MSoft.

I don't even care if the onscreen keyboard was all. Initial surfing to a site - and adding it to Safari as a favorite - would add the world of use for me.

Well, an IR keyboard would be OK, too.

Or can we maybe have an IR keyboard?