AppleTV: See, Apple Had A Plan

Recently Robert Scoble had a piece “The MacMini HDTV Revolution” where he plainly states

We all agreed that Apple TV sucks. More on that in a minute.

So does it still suck so much now Robert ?  I do not think so.  With Apples announcements about its upgrades today, like I said previously, Apple is well positioned here to take over our living rooms as well.  With the rental offerings, HD content, direct access to iTunes, it makes the AppleTV so much more valuable.

There is a point I am surprised I have not hear anyone making yet … part of Roberts love affair with the Mac Mini was Dave Winer’s recent piece of software called called FlickrFan. It basically pulls flickr photos from streams and displays them on your tv, Mac desktop, or Mac laptop. It seems like a very cool product and the mac mini is the perfect platform for it.  Well Apple went ahead and pulled the carpetright out from underneath Mr. Winer with the addition of Flickr streaming to the AppleTV.

Now I am not sure I can wait till the new software update comes out ….. I need help