Apple Asks for Feedback on AppleTV

Apple has a page in which it’s soliciting feedback on AppleTV. Identified as a “hobby” by Steve Jobs at the last WSJ D Conference, I think there’s an excellent opportunity to do something “cool” here. Taking user’s and potential user’s input is a great place to start, and hopefully Apple really does take the feedback under consideration.

Topping my list—

1.) (officially) Opening it up to 3rd-party developers.

2.) Probably some sort of DVR functionality and additional storage—whether internally or externally via the recently-hacked USB port.

Quoting Jobs at the D Conference:

We’re in two busineses today, we’ll be very shortly in three business and a hobby. One is our Mac business, second is our music business, third business is the phone business, handsets. And the hobby is Apple TV. The reason I call it a hobby is a lot of people have tried and failed to make it a business. It’s a business that’s hundreds of thousands of units per year but it hasn’t crested to be millions of units per year, but I think if we improve things we can crack that.

(hat tip: AppleTV Source)