First up, let's go drag something behind the shed and put an entire clip of ammo in its head:
Apple has been losing market share for years. It's a simple fact. Less than eight years ago, Apple had the most popular phone on the market in the US;
Android phones have long since dethroned Apple by simple virtue of doing all the same things whilst costing a fraction of the fucking price.
We're at the point where you can buy a brand new smartphone with pretty much all of the functionality of a previous-gen iPhone for about a sixth of the price. Even Microsoft and IP Carrier Phones are starting to get a foot in the door because of Apple essentially charging an arm, leg, and testicle for brand recognition. Apple routinely using proprietary tech is only making the fucking things more annoying to own, since any damage or malfunction has to be handled through Apple, whereas the Android can often be fixed on-site for a fraction of the price.
But that's just one slice of the "Nobody gives a fuck about Apple TV pie." The second giant piece comes from the fact that it's coming from a market wherein people already have a hundred other fucking choices. Smart TVs and HDTVs with Smart TV compatibility have been out for almost six years now, and if you want a TV that happens to do Android shit, then that market's already been covered (and relatively cheaply; I got a Smart TV-compatible HDTV for my PS4 this year for under $120 after rebate). The bigger problem is that there's tons of set-top devices and consoles that are going to do
exactly what the fuck Apple TV is going to do, and do that shit
now, for a price people have
already paid. You have an Xbox 360? Congrats, you have all the functionality that Apple TV is going to have, plus the ability to play DVDs and play 360 games.
Kiwis, this is
the exact same fucking reason that the Xbone had a rocky start when it launched centered on Television and streaming. Fucking Smart TVs had been out for a while and we
don't fucking need a device that does something we already fucking have covered from a thousand different bases. I can run Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, and a dozen of other music and video streaming apps on my Xbox 360, Wii, PS4, 2006-era PSP, 3DS, PC, and TV set, and that's not even covering the shit that these all have that Apple TV fucking
won't, like say,
Bloodborne.
"Oh, but you can play games on an Apple TV, or run IOS Apps!" the tryhard Apple defenders scream. They argue that this will "kill" gaming consoles. Except, thing is,
we heard that shit before. A lot. About mobile killing handhelds in fact. It didn't fucking happen, and it won't happen, because there's shit that handhelds can do that mobile fucking
can't, giving them entirely different roles. Just as mobile didn't kill handhelds, there's no fucking way Apple TV is going to do a fucking thing to game consoles, especially since they've lived more-or-less harmoniously with Smart TVs for years now, which offer
the same fucking things.
Even ArsTechnica, shithole that it is,
realizes that the Apple TV is a failed experiment and is never going to take off.