Logitech: We Give Up, Google TV is a Train Wreck

An interesting question in this regard, is what Microsoft plans to do about the settopbox market. Apple has already answered this with AppleTV, and recently with the iPad and Iphone 4S beeing able to show the image directly on the TV. All three devices are in some way a media station. Exactly how Microsoft will administer it's contracts and agreements with media holders on the xbox 360 platform is something I find interesting to see. The could potentially do a kind of "ipod touch" edition of the xbox 360, where you wouldn't have the ability to play the biggest games, -and this console like thing could be manufactured by many different companies unlike the xbox360. Or they could just take the media-consumption part of the xbox360 and put it on Windows 8 and let Logitech and the like manufacture settopboxes with Windows8. Windows 8 is looking like a more and more powerful platform every time I think of it. It was interesting to hear from the AsiaD conference that both Apple and Google look at the phone and the tablets as the same device, while they consider the desktop something else. Windows 8 is the oposite, considering the desktop/laptop and tablet something different than the phone. Exactly where the xbox360 fits into this is a bit difficult to see at the moment, but at least the expression of the interface on xbox360 is going towards metro-land. There is no set-top-box-like thing with iOS on it, which I find strange. However, out of iOS, Android and Windows 8, the latter is the one that I think has the biggest appeal on a TV screen.

Yeah, Google TV just never seemed like a viable product to me. I'm perfectly happy with my Windows Media Center HTPC. I really hope that MS is keeping us HTPCers in mind when working on Windows 8.