As you all know, Apple released a new version of its set-top box just over a month ago. The new fourth-generation Apple TV comes with important new features, such as the A8 processor, 2GB of RAM, its own App Store or the Siri Remote, which make it an important revision very different from previous versions. Well, it seems that in Cupertino they think that it is not enough and they would already be testing a small number of Fifth generation Apple TV, a model that would also come with important news with respect to the current version.
The information comes to us from Digitimes and quotes the Taiwan assembly line. The first units would be manufactured already in this month of December, starting the mass production early 2016. If true, it would be the first time that Apple has renewed its set-top box in such a short time, since until now it has always been renewed every 2-3 years. The question is, what is the reason why Apple would be interested in launching this new version so soon?
At the moment it is just a rumor that cannot be taken as official information, but the new Apple TV is expected to have a more powerful processor that would allow him to improve his performance for, I quote, «add functions to help you not just serve as a set-top-box«. If confirmed, it is possible that this new device is not an evolution of the Apple TV 4, but a kind of Pro or Plus model, so to speak.
As I have said on more than one occasion, with the Apple TV 4 Apple took a step to unite in the same device everything necessary to entertain us in our living room, where a console is included. We can give free rein to the imagination and think that Apple has plans to create its own console, something that many users I know have been waiting for a long time. Has the time finally come?
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