Apple snippets

Incidentally, my lack of posting recently has been due to a pretty busy period at work, which looks like continuing for the new few weeks. But since it's the weekend, I'm making up for lost time. :)

Anyways, I came across these two Apple-related links and [these are good].

The first is a blog entry on why the AppleTV is going to be successful, from ZDNet's Alan Graham. I think Graham pretty much hits the nail on the head, and certainly expresses why "I WANT MY APPLETV!". Basically, instead of trying to force a computer into people's living rooms, like M$'s MediaCenter or whatever it's called, Apple have again gone the simple route and designed a device that does what people want : give them a way to watch TV that they've downloaded on their TVs, with the simplicity of a DVD player or Tivo.

It's not surprising to me at all that one of the usual rumor sites reported that Apple has already sold out their initial order of 100,000 AppleTVs, totally surpassing their own expectations. 100,000 x US$299 is a cool US$30 million of brand new revenue. I have no idea what kind of margins Apple might be getting on AppleTVs, I'm sure that they are going to end up making a lot from them, since they are basically 40GB harddrives with A/V out, a wireless 802.11n chipset and a cheap Intel processor to handle decoding.

Moving to the second link, it's a Flickr gallery of someone's basement Mac museum (Thanks again to the ever-interesting Daring Fireball for the link).

And I thought my collection of Macs was bad...