I was chatting up the iTV rumors with a co-worker last night when he posed a humorous question, “Would it be a touch screen TV?” I laughed and thought of every sci-fi show I had seen as a kid playing out in my mind with the Apple logo settled nicely on the top right of the screen. As unique as it would be to have a 37” inch touch screen TV part of me screams NO WAY!
Apple has built its products into an ever growing community of life that while some aspects of one devise work on another, one product line really never replaces another. I mean look at the classic iPod, even that for some reason is still selling in stores and online. Just don’t ask me how. It is this practice of building a community of products that is a major contributor of how Apple is so successful. Each product complements the other in its own way.
But someone somewhere may still ask, why not a touch screen? Besides that the top of my current TV sits eight feet in the air above my fireplace and I have no intention of building hard core shoulders, you could kiss your Apple TV good bye if it were in fact a touch screen. It would become a bulky non portable pain in the rear. Maybe five years from now when a wall in my kitchen also serves as an interactive graphic family message board with post-its, pictures, reminders, and a zoom-able map of where I am supposed to pick up the kids after their soccer practice. It would be really great to have a touch, even 3D, or holographic iTV to swipe homework reminders from the wall to my kids iTV, or they take a screen shot of a TV show scene, swipe it to their MAC to add themselves to the scene. But right now at this moment, Apple is smarter than this. But it was still a fun thought.
