Apple TV will succeed like Palm and Wii because intentionally or unintentionally it is allowing the user base (their fans) to make mods and make it better.
Posted Mar 26th 2007 6:36AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs
It was just a matter of time until the immanently
hackable Apple TV OS was released into the wild. Afterall, the OS and
internal disk drives have already been ripped from the svelte chassis, mixed in with higher density disks, and burned back into Apple's set top box. Of course, the 200MB Apple TV OS image is likely locked to Apple TV hardware and runs on Intel procs only, but these are just minor annoyances
as we've seen before. Given its mach kernel and BSD origins, it won't be long before Apple TV becomes the
homebrew happy-hacking platform of choice. Hear that team
XMBC, there's a new sheriff in town. Now please, somebody enable that goofy USB port for something a bit more useful than "service," mkay?