Apple iTV to $ 1,499 dollars: word BestBuy (or maybe not)

Imagine a 42-inch screen in an unmistakable design Apple. A iMac much larger, much thinner, without the need for a keyboard, hung on the wall of your living room.

Imagine iOS-style icons that appear on the screen when the power is on, the ability to update - by Siri - Facebook, Twitter, surf the Internet, use your favorite applications and play the most popular games of all time directly on your new iTV.

Science fiction? No, actually, yes. At least for the moment.

As reported by TheVerge , it seems that these days Best Buy is sending its customers a survey with feedback on potential new products and services coming and their eventual acceptance by users. In the first position the figure just the elusive iTV Apple, imaginatively called "Apple HDTV."

The authors of the survey imagine the Apple HDTV with the following characteristics:

- 42-inch 1080p LED high-definition;
- native iOS operating system and can be downloaded directly from the App Store all apps already available for the iPhone and iPad;
- iCloud support for saving remote film, TV series and the various media, with the same procedures used for saving photos and music in the cloud service from Apple;
- iSight camera and microphone for video calls using FaceTime, Skype or any similar app;
- support for iTunes, Netflix, YouTube and Flickr.
- voice control via Siri or the Remote app on the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

All the figure, quite affordable, with $ 1,499 dollars - without the usual change one by one - in euro is estimated at around € 1,500.

At least for the American market, the characteristic part of the big chains of retailers to send to customers this kind of survey regarding the level of satisfaction of possible new products is quite common, and usually with a certain probability and approximation on the characteristics, anticipate what will end up on the shelves in a few months.

To this add in even the New York Times that quoted a source inside Apple that confirm the existence of a prototype of iTV at an advanced stage in the study of Cupertino Jonathan Ive (currently Senior Vice President of Industrial Design) .

Do the math it is likely that the rumors about the Apple TV is more than just rumors and look a bit 'expectations and the denials of a few years ago when the then rumored iTablet, then presented with the name iPad.

If March is the month of the launch of the new iPad 3 is possible that the new wonder Apple does not arrive before the summer even though I fear that, before the next year, we will not see anything new.

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