{"id":17428,"date":"2014-03-03T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2014-03-02T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:19:23","slug":"newsletter-issue-744-the-growing-stature-of-apple-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2014\/03\/newsletter-issue-744-the-growing-stature-of-apple-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #744: The Growing Stature of Apple TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some wonder just what new product categories Apple plans to enter in the coming year, assuming CEO Tim Cook keeps his oft-repeated promises, you wonder whether one of those products may already be there. But it is sort of flying below the radar, because Apple consigned it to hobby status.<\/p>\n<p>But how can a gadget, with annual sales now hitting one billion dollars, be considered a hobby? A number of companies would only be delighted to receive that much revenue from most any product, and would praise the results to the skies.<\/p>\n<p>Now Apple TV has surely become more mainstream in recent days, and now has a featured place on Apple&#8217;s online store, rather than being relegated to the accessory department. Based on the figures produced by Cook at last week&#8217;s Apple shareholders meeting, it&#8217;s been estimated that Apple sold 10 million units. I wonder, in passing, how many units Roku sold in the same year, or all years.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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