Today we have to give the final farewell to a device that was defined by the company as a hobby and that however, has evolved into a stand-alone device, with operating system itself and full of possibilities: the third-generation Apple TV.
Apple has discontinued in form all the Apple TV 3. And although the news had not been announced, the truth is that the road was being prepared by the company for quite some time now.
Apple TV 3, rest in peace
If today you give a virtual walk through the Apple website probably you throw something at fault. Indeed, the third-generation Apple TV is that no longer exists, or is at least no longer on sale. In the day of yesterday, the company from Cupertino gave the step that, on the other hand, already is saw coming and was inevitable: descatalogar the Apple TV 3.
Apple already does not sell third-generation Apple TV, has released it from its online store and has erased all traces of their existence. All the links on your web page now lead directly to the fourth generation Apple TV. So only in its section refurbished is possible find some of these devices to price reduced but clear, is is of units very limited and probably, as in the case of the store Spanish, once disappear, never is will know more than them.
It own company has confirmed in a mail electronic sent to employees and educators and published by the web site 9to5Mac that has decided discontinue the Apple TV of third generation, to the same time that grants certain tranquillity to their last buyers pointing that all them orders made until the time will be duly attended. However, it is not known if the device will receive a new software update in the near future (the last update received by Apple TV 3 occurred last February in the form of security patches). Personally, I already would be preparing the return.
E-mail sent to the web site 9to5Mac where Apple confirms the official withdrawal of the third-generation Apple TV
The end that everyone already expected
The Apple TV of third generation came to the catalogue of the company in the month of March of 2012 as a update of the previous generation. Since its birth, this device was defined by the company as a hobby. In large measure it was his foray into the world of television after thought, and later discarded, the idea of developing a TV. By it seen not had form of offer to the user an experience complete, comprehensive and innovative of see the television, and so the result was the Apple TV.
Since the launch of the Apple TV’s third generation in March 2012, only received a minor update a year later, and so remained until today, being one of the more long-lived products from the company that it has been on sale for four years and a half.
Now Apple TV 3 disappears permanently. It is something that we already saw coming since the launch at the end of the last year of the Apple TV’s fourth generation, a device aimed at transforming the way in which we see television, with an operating system itself (tvOS), an app store, a remote control that can control TV through Siri and much more from top to bottom. However, its end is saw accelerated when the month last, the own company made much more difficult find it in your shop online and, to the same time, began to remove it of them shelves of their shops.
The third-generation Apple TV is now a thing of the past, “the future of television is in applications”, as well said Tim Cook a year ago, and in the new fourth-generation Apple TV.
