Here’s some incredibly interesting news from today’s iOS update extravaganza, Apple today released iOS 6.1 (or in Apple TV talk 5.2) for an heretofore unknown Apple TV called AppleTV 3,2. You can download it here. Apple’s current Apple TV – version 3,1 – was updated to 1080P with a single core A5 processor in March of last year.
On the conservative side, this may just be a new set of chips cobbled together to do the same thing as the current model. On the optimistic/speculative side, this could foreshadow a new hardware product coming up soon-ish. Perhaps one with a large LCD attached?
Apple’s addition of Bluetooth today could also signal (ha) that a new Apple TV package would have some sort of Bluetooth keyboard/remote type of functionality (Siri?). There are already a number of Bluetooth keyboards out there that cater to TV users but Apple could certainly change the game in this regard.
We’re looking into it.
