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The AppleTV’s are being prepped to ship? Signs point to YES!

Posted in Apple, Scoop by Dan at 11:15 pm

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Apple has begun charging credit cards for customers who ordered the AppleTV (previously iTV) on January 9th and as recently as a few weeks ago. It is Apple’s practice NOT to charge credit cards until a product has entered the “ship preparation” phase hinting that the AppleTV will be shipping VERY soon. This directly contradicts a ThinkSecret report that said the product would ship in March.

11 Comments, Comment or Trackback

  1. ClaMs

    How do you know that they’ve started charging credit cards Dan? :)

    Can’t wait for the first Apple TV hack to emerge. Stream this, play that, do this. A whole new world of doo-das. Yippee!!

    Feb 10th, 2007

  2. Dan

    Chris - I got about a dozen emails that Apple has started charging cards, including mine.

    Feb 10th, 2007

  3. Don Wilson

    Dan, a short note on “It is Apple’s practice NOT to charge credit cards until a product has entered the “ship preparation” phase” — that’s the governments practice, not just Apple’s. =) From what I’ve experienced in working with companies that sell physical objects over the internet, it’s fairly illegal to charge a customer for a product until the day that it is due to ship.

    Feb 11th, 2007

  4. Dan

    Then we have even more proof!

    Feb 11th, 2007

  5. Ronald Heft

    My predictions:

    - 10.4.9 on Monday
    - iTunes 7.1 on Monday
    - TV on Tuesday

    Feb 11th, 2007

  6. Tommo_UK

    No, what it means is that pre-orders are shipping, as planned, in February, and in-store delveries will take place in March. Due to te unexpectedly high orders for the aTV, pre-orders are being fulfilled first. Simple. OK?

    Feb 11th, 2007

  7. Jon

    Dan is gonna show off all the AppleTV pr0n on UNEASY

    Feb 11th, 2007

  8. emory

    ok… I still don’t see the point of this. Pretty much it’s just letting you stream your content to the tele right? What benefits are Apple trying to add to the game here?

    Feb 11th, 2007

  9. Kevin

    until this is made to allow you to use content from quicktime etc, theres no way im gonna encode all my media to itunes friendly formats. When the hacks emerge to use vlc and the likes ill consider it

    Feb 11th, 2007

  10. mark h

    What would be sooo nice, is some sort of networked VLC front-end (although, I guess there would have to be some sort of back-end too, for communication with the server side). The current web-interface/constant-streaming/lame-ass-playlist and over-all-awkwardness is not very useful.

    Feb 11th, 2007

  11. emory

    yeah, i’m just gunna use a homebuilt DVR with an old pc, and that way be able to use all my vids and rip dvd’s. Cheaper, and more customizable, what’s the benefit of iTV, or whatever it’s being called?

    Feb 11th, 2007

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