It appears that rumors of the Apple TV’s delay have been greatly er…vindicated. The device was supposed to ship at the end of February (Wednesday), but Apple today indicated that they won’t get out the door until March.
“Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin shipments mid-March,” an Apple spokesperson told Macworld.More than anything, this crushes our hopes here that we’d finally get some answers about the device, and that there would at last be some Mac news to report on.
So we now present our own little game called: “why is the Apple TV delayed?” Sadly, your guesses are as good as ours. Hit the comment link below and tell us why Apple’s living room presence is taking so long. My guess? All of the shipments are being delivered by JetBlue.
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I think the delay is because they want to make sure every thing is a s it should be, unlike Microsoft. They just push it out the door and then they charge you for the Fix Disk.
I know one is software and one is hardware but the priceable is the same.
I would rather wait an extra couple of weeks rather than get a recall.
Perhaps Steve has relented and recalled all units in order for the DRM to be stripped from the model? Also, a gaming platform will be installed so as to make it a proper rival to the Xbox.
Seems to me that since Steve jobs has been obsessing over the iphone for the better part of last year, other projects have had little guidance from him, and now that it's time to ship, there are details, or huge things not quite right.