Apple TV Already Being Hacked
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 23 March 2007
Only a couple of days after being shipped, the Apple TV is already being modified in a variety of ways. A thread at Something Awful discusses installing VLC, and a dedicated site, AppleTVHacks.net, has appeared and is cataloging hacks including a hard-drive upgrade tutorial. Did Apple intend for the Apple TV to be so easy to upgrade and hack?
If you want your product to be successful, keep it open. That way, customers can pack in whatever they want; tons of features you'd have to deliver otherwise.