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by jfb 4935 days ago
Well, sure, we'd all like a pony.

EDIT: But the problem here isn't even getting hi-res re-renders of Pixar movies (do-able, if insane), it's getting you to buy a new 8K TV every eighteen months or so. Unless and until someone figures out how to utterly destroy existing TV business models, nobody is going to try and build value-add TV sets. It's a fool's errand.
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Flenser 4934 days ago
Once you have an Apple TV you're locked into the Apple ecosystem for as long as you have it. You'll buy lots of tablets and phones during that time that act as interfaces to it.

Also: http://i-want-a-pony.com/

Edit: Apple are probably the only company that could make an 8k TV and have content ready to watch on it, or at least they are in a position to have have a product ready before anyone else. They could manufacture them at scale to make a decent margin selling them at a premium whilst locking consumers into their ecosystem for years to come.

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gnaffle 4935 days ago
Most Apple customers don't buy new devices every 18 months. Apple only needs to make customers happy enough (and locked into their ecosystem) so that when they upgrade at some point, they still buy Apple.
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