iTV

Foxconn wants more Sharp shares, aims to beat Samsung displays on clearness

In another hint that Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known in the Western world as Foxconn, could be gearing up for mass production of a rumored Apple television set, Reuters now reports that Foxconn is in talks with the Japanese multinational corporation Sharp about increasing its stake.

This is interesting development as Foxconn in March bought an eleven percent stake in Sharp worth $844 million. The two companies now run Sharp’s cutting-edge display plant in Sakai, Osaka, leading some to speculate that Foxconn made the move on behalf of its biggest customer, Apple of California, which has long been rumored to be readying production of a full-blown television set, which Foxconn publicly denied...

Roundup: what’s on tap for WWDC 2012 tomorrow

With iOS 6 being the main theme of tomorrow's keynote, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook, iOS boss Scott Forstall and marketing head honcho Phil Schiller (aka Mini-Me and Dr. No) will likely share stage time to announce the latest in Apple's mobile operating system powering the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Feeling excited yet?

We're also keeping our eyes peeled for the latest iPhone and Apple TV developments and are expecting shiny new commercials (hopefully they do better than latest celebrity adverts), plus the usual dose of Apple's trademark one-liners, superlatives and hyperbolas.

Here's what we're looking forward to, some of the stuff we've been keeping our fingers crossed for and what the rumor-mill predicted would go down tomorrow...

Apple TV SDK to launch at WWDC: apps finally coming to your telly

A new report published this morning claims that Apple will seed developers with a brand new Apple TV software development kit (SDK) as early as its annual developers conference which kicks off with a San Francisco keynote next Monday.

Conceivably, the goal of the SDK would be to foster growth of the third-party app ecosystem around the Apple TV, the $99 set-top box which remains closed to app developers (unless you jailbreak, that is)...

Apple to unveil its television set at WWDC next Monday, analyst predicts

After peering into his crystal ball, Jefferies & Company analyst Peter Misek conjured up a major prediction for Apple's rumored HD TV set which, according to Misek, will be announced during a keynote which will kick off Apple's annual developers conference in San Francisco next Monday at 10am PT.

Yes, this is the same guy who back in April said the iTV, as the media calls the rumored Apple-branded TV set, will be actually called the iPanel. We'll leave it up to you to draw conclusions...

AirPlay and apps will set iTV apart, says Brightcove CEO

Brightcove founder, chairman and CEO Jeremy Allaire shares some interesting observations regarding Apple's rumored full-blown television set that the industry is anxiously anticipating.

The biggest feature and key differentiating factor won't be the display nor industrial design for that matter. Instead, the iTV should be treated as yet another screen to run the enhanced iOS computing platform. Content?

Don't count on Apple beating cable companies to the programming punch. Instead, Allaire observes, the more than 500,000 apps and AirPlay technology are Apple's two key advantages that will help set iTV apart...

Munster on iTV: ‘if’ has been decided and now the question is ‘when’

Riding on his iTV  predictions, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote in a note to clients today that a number of factors, including Tim Cook's D10 talk earlier this week, have led him to confidently assume that a full-fledged television set from Apple is a now a matter of 'when', not 'if'.

He is expecting iTV models ranging from 42 inches to 55 inches, costing between $1,500 and $2,000. Apple will announce its standalone television set later this year, he speculated, with general availability six months later...

Rumor: Apple launching feature-complete Apple TV software for iTV at WWDC

According to a new report, Apple is readying a much more feature-complete version of the operating system that drives its Apple TV set-top box.

Sources tell it's also bound to power that rumored HD TV set. It wasn't immediately clear from the report whether the enhanced OS will also support the $99 hockey puck and how it might tie with iOS 6.

The company will allegedly launch it at the upcoming WWDC developers conference in San Francisco which begins with a keynote on June 11 at 10am PST...

Apple allegedly began assembly of iTV prototypes

According to a report out today from Chinese-language China Business News based on "informed sources", Apple this month allegedly begun producing the first prototypes of its rumored HD TV set. As the first batch of iTVs get assembled, Cupertino is said to be ramping up production later this year...

Munster: Apple television in December, iPhone 5 in October

Piper Jaffray's resident Apple analyst Gene Munster is certainly the biggest proponent of a full-blown Apple television set and I guess you could say he's actually started the whole craze in the first place.

It's been a while since we last heard from him, but now Munster's back with some updates to both iTV and iPhone 5 memes.

He sees an Apple-branded television debuting in December of this year and hitting store shelves in 2013 (hopefully, it won't be a “terrible use of retail space”).

As for a sixth-generation iPhone, or the iPhone 5 as the press dubbed it, he agrees on the general consensus of an October timeframe, which also jives well with what iMore recently heard from sources, too...

iTV? Think iHub.

According to Forrester Research, the key competitive advantage of Apple's rumored television set - often referred to in media reports as the iTV - won't be the television part per se.

Instead, one analyst thinks Apple should sell the world’s first non-TV TV, which would entail convincing folks they need a new screen in their lives.

It should enable the ultimate portability in that one should be able to hang it on any wall where the family congregates for the usual activities and of course it would run apps and represent the ultimate realization of everything Apple stands for...

Apple board member says Steve Jobs wanted to design an iCar

Fast Company highlights some interesting comments made by Apple board member, and J. Crew head, Mickey Drexler at the recent Innovation Uncensored conference. Drexler talked about all things Apple, including its late CEO Steve Jobs.

According to him, Jobs' desire to rethink industries didn't stop at computers, smartphones and other consumer electronics. Apparently he also wanted to reinvent the automotive industry as well. That's right, Jobs' wanted to build an iCar...