Are you ready? It's happening again. Remember the comments after the iPod was introduced? "It's too expensive", "there are already products that do this", "it doesn't have enough features". The Apple TV is going to continue to grow and expand. There will be third party hardware and software offerings. this will be the device that regular people use to get internet TV in the family room.

Similar complaints were aimed at Microsoft's WebTV. I really don't care who gets to customers first or how much press and ad dollars they spend- just honor your customer base and don't treat them like criminals. I don't have to worry about DRM with my toaster or with my toilet seat and at the end of the day content is just one more item consumers buy. Worrying about piracy is time better used making better content. Plus, Apple's treated consumers with crappy made Ipods since day one (do a google search, I've had two replaced so far) as has Microsoft with their Xbox 360 (I can't think of one person who hasn't sent theirs in for repair). A monopoly between software and hardware pisses consumers off even if you have enough lawyers to make it legal.