Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	uk.d-i-y, comp.misc
Subject	Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV
Date	2014-04-06 18:58 +0000
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<lhs84m$rtl$2@solani.org> (permalink)
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Amazingly, this just hit OSNews:  AndroidTV.

Feed: OSNews
Title: This is Android TV
Author: Thom Holwerda
Link: http://osnews.com/story/27659/This_is_Android_TV
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:53:13 -0400
   
According to documents obtained exclusively by The Verge, Google is
about to launch a renewed assault on your television set called Android
TV. Major video app providers are building for the platform right now.
Android TV may sound like a semantic difference - after all, Google TV
was based on Android - but it's something very different. Android TV is
no longer a crazy attempt to turn your TV into a bigger, more powerful
smartphone.  "Android TV is an entertainment interface, not a computing
platform," writes Google. "It's all about finding and enjoying content
with the least amount of friction." It will be "cinematic, fun, fluid,
and fast." What does that all mean? It means that Android TV will look
and feel a lot more like the rest of the set top boxes on the market,
including Apple TV, Amazon's Fire TV, and Roku. All these devices look
the same.  It's going to be very hard to stand out if they all have the
same services. On top of that - I'm not putting a separate box next to
my TV.  Why can't my tablet or PC act as the box? This is 2014, is it
not? If you see a separate box, they blew it.

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[OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-02 18:44 +0100
  Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-04-02 19:55 +0100
    Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV <address_is@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-03 05:28 +0000
      Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-03 08:12 +0100
        Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 21:55 +0000
          Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 21:58 +0000
            Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> - 2014-04-04 23:12 +0100
              Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV "Dave Liquorice" <allsortsnotthisbit@howhill.com> - 2014-04-05 16:46 +0000
          Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-05 08:10 +0100
            Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-05 10:23 +0000
  Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> - 2014-04-03 11:20 +0100
    Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2014-04-03 12:44 +0000
      Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> - 2014-04-03 16:12 +0100
      Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 20:53 +0000
        Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-06 18:58 +0000
          Re: [OT for uk.d-i-y] Android version of Apple TV Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@hushmail.com> - 2014-04-06 14:19 -0500

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