{"id":827,"date":"2011-08-28T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2011-08-28T10:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T17:57:23","slug":"i-want-iphonetv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/i-want-iphonetv\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want &#8230; iPhoneTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take the iPhone, but replace the screen with a 40 inch HDTV screen and put it in your living room. What do you get?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a TV<\/li>\n<li>a high-quality speakerphone bypassing the telcos<\/li>\n<li>a live window to grandma (&#8220;HDTV videoconferencing in your living room&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>a stereo<\/li>\n<li>a movie rental kiosk<\/li>\n<li>a game console<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, next time you are out shopping for a TV, which would you buy: an iPhoneTV that can be remote-controlled with any Apple device in the room, or:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a regular HDTV with its own clumsy remote control, plus<\/li>\n<li>a set top box with its own clumsy remote control, plus<\/li>\n<li>an old AppleTV\/Roku\/Tivo with its own clumsy remote control, plus<\/li>\n<li>a Wii\/Playstation\/Xbox (ok, they have a case for having different remove controls)<\/li>\n<li>all of which litter your living room with boxes, remotes, and wires?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The global TV market is about <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704804204575069401401404236.html\">200 million units<\/a> a year. How much of this can Apple get? This may well be another $10billion+ market opportunity for them.<\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t know what Apple may or may not be building. I know that the above would be ridiculously easy to build for them because the iPhone basically is it already. And I know that that is what I would want to buy &#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the iPhone, but replace the screen with a 40 inch HDTV screen and put it in your living room. What do you get? a TV a high-quality speakerphone bypassing the telcos a live window to grandma (&#8220;HDTV videoconferencing in your living room&#8221;) a stereo a movie rental kiosk a game console Now, next time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,25,3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-devices","category-hardware","category-prediction","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}