Reports of 50″ Apple Television in Jonathan Ive’s Lab as Talk Heightens Ahead of CES (Macrumors)
_USA Today_ takes a look at the effect rumors of an Apple television set are
having on expectations for next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
with the industry’s existing players working hard to avoid to being caught
flat-footed by Apple as mobile phone manufacturers in many cases were by the
iPhone.
While rumors have pegged the Apple television set as offering Siri-powered
voice recognition and control, the new report offers a few other tidbits of
information on the project including claims that the company is working on a
to launch models of at least 42 inches and that a 50-inch model is currently
in the works in the its design studio.
> Apple is said to be looking at a 42-inch or larger LCD TV with built-in Wi-
Fi. Inside the locked-down studio of Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of
industrial design at Apple, there’s a slick 50-inch TV, according to the
source who worked at Apple.
Early reports had claimed that Apple was looking at TVs in the 40-55″ range,
but a recent report from _Digitimes_ claimed that suppliers were preparing
components for smaller 32″ and 37″ models.
_USA Today_’s report also summarizes some …
