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The Apple II shaped personal computing, the Macintosh redefinedit, and the PowerBook became the model for all future laptops. Newtonpaved the way for the vastly more successful Palm.

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The introduction of the SuperDrive has created a generation ofdigital hub machines that handle everything from instant messages andemail to tracking your favorite iTunes and mastering your own digitalmovies. And the iPod shows that Apple knows what it takes to create asuccessful consumer product.

What Next?

Much as I and many others beg Apple to add one more product totheir matrix - a compact desktop machine without an internalmonitor - it seems that His Steveness doesn't want Apple fillingthat niche. I guess we'll keep upgrading our beige G3s with processorupgrades, better video cards, and fast/huge Ultra100 hard drivesalong with the controllers to support them.

Keep coming back to Low End Macfor information on getting the most out of your old desktopMacs....

The Newton lovers and Palm carriers long for an Apple PDA.Some want it to be a 21st century Newton. Some want it to run thePalm OS. And some think Apple would be nuts to use the Newton OS orPalm OS when OS X already has Inkwell. But Apple has resistedthus far, and it may already be too late to carve out a new nichebetween the Palms, Pocket PCs, and new Tablet PCs.

The third option bandied about is the iPhone. It's a cellphone. It has Bluetooth and iSyncs to your Jaguar-equipped Mac. Andit has an Apple logo. Of course, that would undermine Apple'spartnerships with Erickson, Sony, and others, so I don't expect it tohappen any time soon - if ever. Besides, the money is in the phoneservice, not the phones themselves. Apple is wise to sit this oneout.

TiVo Time

The iPod was successful for several reasons, and the size of theMac market was not one of them. Nor was the Apple nameplate. Appleproduced a better MP3 player - a brilliantly simple design, morestorage, a faster connection to the computer, complete integrationwith software Mac owners already had - made it function as aFireWire disk drive, and took their place as a preeminent player inthe high-end MP3 player market.

It's time to do the same thing with television.

In an article onSlate, Brendan J. Koerner tells us that TiVo is 'destined for the ashheap of history.' His argument is that the first company in a fieldpays the price for innovation by watching oßthers profit fromtheir ideas. Like Sony Betamax, Atari, Amiga, Newton, and nearlyApple Computer itself.

It is the copycats who succeed, those who stand on the shouldersof giants. Microsoft's DOS stood on the shoulders of CP/M, and whereis Digital Research today? Microsoft's Windows stood on the shouldersof the Mac OS, and how big is Apple's market share today? Palm builton the shoulders of the Newton, and Apple pulled the plug on Newtonyears ago.

Apple didn't invent the mouse or the graphical user interface; itstood on the shoulders of geniuses when it created the Mac. Appledidn't invent MP3 players, but the iPod could not have been createdwithout seeing the successes and mistakes of others. The iMac itselfwas really little more than the rehashing and colorfully swoopyrepackaging of all-in-one computers such as the Commodore PET,TRS-80, and Xerox Star.

It's time for Apple to stand on the shoulders of TiVo and createthe next generation set top box. Mac OS X, iMovie, and QuickTime6 already provide most of the software needed. The high capacity harddrives necessary have become low cost commodities. And the horsepowerto drive such a device is trivially expensive.

Inside TiVo

For those still living in the VCR age, TiVo represents a huge stepforward in technology. Instead of tapes that are huge, need to bestored somewhere, and wear out over time, TiVo digitally recordstelevision broadcasts to one or more hard drives inside the TiVo.

TiVo is built from off the shelf parts: Quantum IDE hard drives(12.7 GB in the 14 hour unit), a 50 MHz IBM PowerPC 403GCX processor,a Sony MPEG-2 encoder, an IBM MPEG2 decoder chip, a little memory (32MB), a v.90 modem, a TV tuner, circuitry to handle all the conversionbetween digital and analog, and the Linux operating system.

In basic mode, TiVo records about one hour of video per gigabyteof hard drive space. The high quality mode (6 MB/s instead of 2 MB/s)uses about 3 GB per hour.

You can easily upgrade an existing TiVo by adding a second IDEhard drive or replacing the B drive in a two-drive TiVo. You don'tneed a lot of speed; any old 5400 rpm drive should do. Those $10080 GB drives will give you 75-80 hours of normal quality or25-30 hours of high quality recording.

Today you can buy a 60 hour TiVo for US$299 after rebate. And thenyou'll pay $12.95 per month or a one-time $249 fee to access the TVschedule.

Apple Can Do It

Because the MPEG-2 encoding and decoding is handled by hardware,CPU horsepower is not an issue. The stock TiVo uses a 50 MHz PowerPC,so the CPU from any current Mac is more than adequate.

Apple already buys hard drives in bulk, and they have an OS that'severy bit as robust as the Linux inside TiVo. And they have thecomputer design expertise to go way beyond what TiVo is doing.

The basic unit could be very similar to today's TiVo - a harddrive, hardware MPEG-2 encoding and decoding, a tuner, a remotecontrol - but with several Apple differences. The OS would be MacOS X, not Linux, tweaked for the resolution of today'stelevisions and tomorrow's digital TVs. In addition to cable in andvideo out, it should include ethernet and USB at a minimum, andpossibly FireWire as well.

The device should have two drive bays, with each drive on aseparate bus. The motherboard should have room for a daughter cardthat would allow the main unit to record to one drive and thehardware on the daughter card to record a second program to the otherhard drive.

In terms of hardware, iMovie should be adapted to Apple's personalvideo recorder. This would let users edit out ads before archivingcontent.

There should be room for an optical drive. With just a CD-ROM,users could add sound tracks to their home movies. With CD-RW, theycould create their own video CDs. With DVD-ROM, this could become aDVD player for those who don't already have one. With a Combo Drive,users could watch TV, digital video, or DVDs - and record their ownvideo CDs.

And at the top, an Apple PVR with a SuperDrive would let userscreate their own DVDs from either television content or personalvideos. (Analog video input is a must for all of those old homemovies on VHS and 8mm - and output so you can copy your movies toVHS for all the DVD-deprived relatives.)

In addition to two internal hard drives, Apple could buildFireWire into their PVR and make it easy to add removablestorage.

Instead of charging $12.95 per month like TiVo, Apple shoulddesign their PVR so it can be programmed independently like a VCR -or connect to the .mac server for both regular broadcast programmingand the ability to record streaming QuickTime. (Yes, imagine beingable to save your own copy of the next Stevenote....)

And then imagine being able to watch your recordings on any Mac onyour home network - or even copy them to your 'Book so you can watchthem on your next trip.

But digital video is just the tip of the iceberg.

Beyond PVR

The next step is to turn this into a real digital hub, since itwill be plugged in and drawing power 24/7. What if you could add amodule that would let it act as a cable modem, use the phone modem asbackup if cable goes down, and use DHCP to let all the computers onyour network share an Internet connection. Add an AirPort card tothat module, and you've got a wireless base station.

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Add a wireless keyboard (infrared? Bluetooth?), and you've got adevice that could more than compete with WebTV. Put some realbrowsers on this OS X Box that are tweaked for TV resolution, use thehard drive for caching, include a real email client (already part ofOS X), and you've got a compelling reason to leave WebTVbehind.

With file sharing enabled, this could also become the family fileserver, a place to store your iPhotos and MP3s, and a server for yourUSB printer.

Here's another idea: Let is serve as a network version of .mac foruse with iSync so you don't have to use an Internet connection if youdon't want to.

I think there's great potential for such a device. Apple couldinitially market it as a TiVo competitor, but those who don't alreadyhave a DVD player would find the upgraded models very attractive -two functions in one unit.

For videographers, the ability to input digital video via FireWireor their old analog tapes via video jacks, then edit in iMovie, andthen export to DVD or video CD or videotape would be a compellingreason to consider Apple's device instead of a single purpose devicesuch as TiVo.

Then factor in a shared Internet connection for all the Macs andPCs in the home, being able to serve QuickTime video from the PVR toany networked Mac or Windows PC, an AirPort hub, and a family fileserver to the equation, and you've got a box that could easily startat the $400 mark and build up to a $1,000 plus system.

The iPod paved Apple's way into the consumer marketplace. A devicelike this would let Apple drive right down that road and create a newniche market for digital hubs that will grow for years to come.

Further Reading

• InsideTiVo, 9th Tee Enterprises
• InsideTiVo, Home Cinema Choice Online
• Gettingthe Most Out of Your TiVo, Tom's Hardware Guide

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