Hey, if Apple fanboys want to pay $1000.00 for what is otherwise a $500.00 TV on the normal market, they should be free to do so. You certainly won’t catch me buying a horribly overpriced TV though. Nice to still have choices - until the gubmit takes over the consumer electronics market.
Well, I am an Apple “fan granny”, living on a minimal income. I have given up the “cable packages”, because there isn’t much worth watching.
Depending on how this TV is structured, how they offer channels (individually vs. packaged), it might pay for itself in just a few months.
We shall have to wait and see.
The thing is, there is no $500 alternative on the market. At least not yet. Look at the retina display capabilities on Apple laptop computers. That resolution far exceeds that of regular HD TV sets. I would expect a new offering from Apple to have capabilities mirroring their high-end monitors. You can hook up a computer to an HD TV and use it as a monitor, but you will be limited to inferior HD or 700i resolution. Samsung sells some excellent HD TVs that work well as monitors for computers. But if you want retina display quality with four times the resolution as HD or better, then Apple may be the ticket for now. I may be wrong; if so, please point out existing higher than HD resolution TVs on the market for $500.