After peering into his crystal ball, Jefferies & Company analyst Peter Misek conjured up a major prediction for Apple’s rumored HD TV set which, according to Misek, will be announced during a keynote which will kick off Apple’s annual developers conference in San Francisconext Mondayat 10am PT.
Yes, this is the same guy who back in April said the iTV, as the media calls the rumored Apple-branded TV set, will be actuallycalled the iPanel. We’ll leave it up to you to draw conclusions…
As relayed yesterday byBoy Genius Report, Misek’s note to clients claims Apple will only introduce the product at WWDC, putting it on sale in the second half of 2012. He also wrote that carriers AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom are testing iTVs in their labs.
Granted, this isn’t thecraziest iTV predictionwe’ve heard from analysts so far.
Realistically, we probably won’t see theiTV before 2014.
The same publication also reported that Apple will announce a near feature-complete version of themuch-improved Apple TV operating systemsaid to power Apple’s television set.
BGR’s track record concerning Apple reporting is a mixed bag of misses and hits.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has been the most outspoken proponent of an Apple-branded TV set, recently claiming that the iTV is not aquestion of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’. He, however, speculatedApple will announce the iTV in Decemberand release it six months later.
People are expecting all sorts of things from Apple’s television set, fromjaw-droppingindustrial design toapps and gamestobecoming the iHubfor all your home entertainment needs.
If such a product is to hit the market soon, what do you think the most-requested feature would be?
