Apple

[Grieve]

I don't think an iTV would catch on in nearly the same way as other iProducts have:

1) Price.

They don't need to make as much revenue from TVs as iPhone or iPads, it's all about providing the complete solution, with everything linked and integrated. Samsung doesn't make nearly as much frmo their TV wing as from their smartphone wing either.

But if the TV sells for $3000 and they make $1500 in profit, and they sell 3 milion of them, that's $9b in revenue and $4.5b in profits right there. And bear in mind the TV industry as a whole is projected to sell 52 MILLION smart TV sets alone this year. If Apple got the same sort of share of the market as they do in phones and tablets, we'd be talking getting towards $100b in revenue a year.

2) I don't think there's a huge interest in "smart TV". If there was, Tivo would already be dominating. Everyone would own a DVR.

There wasn't huge mainstream interest in MP3 players until the iPod. There wasn't huge interest in buying digital music until iTunes. There wasn't huge interest in smartphones until the iPhone, or apps until the App Store, or tablets until the iPad.

Do you see a theme here?

3) I think iProducts sell well based partially on a "see and be seen with" mentality. Look at me! I have an iPad! Something that sits in your living room isn't going to have that appeal. Especially for friendless Apple misanthropes.

Like a iMac, that sits in your home office and no-one sees?

So people buy an iPhone or iPad to flaunt it to their friends, but a Galaxy or a Playbook purely for their utility? Based on?

4) Dirty hippies already don't watch TV.
5) Apple lovers are mostly dirty hippies.

I'm pretty sure dirty hippies can't afford quality products, so they buy the cheap Android knockoffs instead...

Bear in mind this is the stock and investing forum. I'm not here to convince you Apple products are the best thing since sliced bread. I do a huge amount of research on Apple, and I sincerely think the stock wil go a lot higher. And I sincerely would love everyone here to share those gains. But it really doesn't matter to me if you don't want to jump on the train. I know several people here have privately told me that have made money on Apple and even thanked me for getting them onboard. They probably wish they hadn't sold - I know I wish I hadn't sold various points between $100 and here...