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Apple presents biggest threat to home consoles, say game luminaries

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The apple-tviPhone has already had a sizable impact on the traditional portable video game industry, but two video game VIPs are cautioning that the company could have a much larger — and potentially devastating — impact on the home console market.

Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell and Nat Brown, who was one of the first engineers on Microsoft’s Xbox project, have issued warnings about Apple’s potential threat. The alerts come amid analyst speculation that Apple may hold an Apple TV-related special event next month.

Read more at Yahoo! Games

Is the video game industry Apple’s next victim?

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While Apple has a well-earned reputation as the inventor of new markets, it’s also something of a serial killer.

The company’s advances in digital music players made the Walkman an afterthought. The introduction of iTunes sounded a virtual death knell for many record retailers. The iPad cut the legs out from under the once fast-growing netbook PC market. And the iPhone has put Motorola in a fight for its life.

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CBS chief talks Apple TV

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With Steve Jobs first dropping hints about Apple’s plans for a branded TV set in his conversations with biographer Walter Isaacson, others are a bit more comfortable discussing it now.

The latest to reveal details was CBS CEO Les Moonves in an earnings conference call this week.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog

 

The latest iTV whispers

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The rumor mill is, somewhat predictably, in overdrive about an Apple-built television set these days, following mention of it in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. And some of what’s being talked about is pretty fascinating – assuming it’s not just an elaborate game of telephone.

The latest suggestion is that the set, collectively dubbed iTV, will feature extensive voice control that’s run by Siri, the intelligent assistant that’s the star of the iPhone 4S.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog

Apple TV rumors go into overdrive

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The long standing whisper in the consumer electronics space has been that Apple is working to find a way to innovate in the television industry as radically as it had impacted the music, telecommunications and tablet fields.

Now, with the launch of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, those whispers are becoming a roar.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog

The TV’s turn for an extreme makeover

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The living room television set is starting to look a little long in the tooth.

With hundreds of TV channels to choose from, thousands of on-demand shows at people’s fingertips (plus thousands more from third-party services like Netflix and Hulu) and a near infinite amount of online content fighting for viewers’ attention, the way consumers interact with their sets is severely outdated.

Read more at Daily Variety

Are games headed to Apple TV?

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While it’s one of the larger players in the mobile gaming space, Apple’s success when it comes to video games has basically been a happy accident.

New online reports, however, show that Steve Jobs and company might be ready to finally put gaming on the front burner — and that Apple TV could be the weapon of choice.

Read more at Yahoo! Games

Set-top boxes challenge cable

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Could the set-top box kill cable?

It’s hard to turn the corner these days without someone thrusting a new gadget for your television at you. Apple and Google are among the more familiar names exploring the space, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. The arena also includes aspirants such as Roku, Boxee, Seagate, Asus and Western Digital. And the three major vidgame consoles are already delivering content.

Read more at Daily Variety

Tech Tussles: Apple vs. The World

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Apple might be one of the most dominant players in the entertainment and technology worlds, but to climb to that pinnacle, it adopted a business model that would make most strategists wince.

Rather than choosing one sector to conquer, the house that Steve Jobs built opted to fight a multi-front war. What’s amazing is that Apple has won so often on so many battlegrounds.

Read more at Daily Variety