Interesting chart from Philip Elmer-Dewitt. So Apple’s hobby device is doing better than most people thought with 56% of the market. Roku is doing very well too, but they make some great products.
Apple TV’s market share
Interesting chart from Philip Elmer-Dewitt. So Apple’s hobby device is doing better than most people thought with 56% of the market. Roku is doing very well too, but they make some great products.
To me, the key take-away of the article is how it casts AirPlay, and not the “relatively narrow content access”, as the value of the Apple TV. In other words, Apple TV is perhaps more accurately seen as an iPhone / iPad accessory than a viable streaming device in and of itself.
In my house, the Apple TV only gets used by the kids playing with YouTube. All my streaming is done on the Roku, which has far more content and a non-asinine remote.
did you you know you can control your Apple TV with the Remote App on iOS? Also you can Airplay from many apps to the Apple TV if the Apple TV does not have a channel yet for them. This was the case initially for HBO Go, but now there is a channel on the Apple TV for it.
Airplay is the killer home A/V app.
I have 3 Apple TV’s, two older models used for audio only. One first generation model being used to stream audio via RCA jack to my audio research amp in my guest house/office, a second generation model connected via TosLink to a DynAudio Xeo 3 wireless system in my main house, and a third generation 1080P model connected to my HDTV for streaming video(Netflix,iTunes,etc)
I wonder if Roku and TiVo are available in as many markets as Apple TV. I’d be interested in seeing something like “Percent Market Share by Units Sold in U.S.”
Initially, no, the HBO Go app could not stream via AirPlay; I remember being very, very disappointed about that for the one month that I actually had a cable TV subscription.
now you have both options for HBOGo. Either the AppleTV.app, or airPlay from the iOS.app