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Google's new movie partnerships are an attempt to avoid spending money to get Hulu on Google TV. Google TV is still a flop even if this works out. Apple TV is about half the price, runs iOS, and supports iPad Air Play.

"Earth Girls Are Easy" still not em bed-able: http://avsquid.com/totally_80s

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"runs iOS" is pretty meaningless when there are no apps.

Apple TV is cool but it's pretty much just NetFlix or buy content from Apple. (Or blacked-out sports if you are into that.)

Apple TV can be easily hacked to run XBMC: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/xbmc-comes-to-the-new-app...

As for no apps, at $99 bucks Apple is easily taking a loss on Apple TV to get market share. As soon as Apple is ready, it would not be difficult for Apple to enable iTunes and apps for Apple TV.

why not just do that now to help them get that market share, and some profits from the app store sales to boot?

It's basically a $229 iPod touch with no screen, no battery, no camera, and no sensors, so they don't have to be losing money on it.

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