The assault on television is one of the continuing objectives of the brand on the block, bordering on obsession. Steve Jobs himself spent his last days trying to guess at how to create the definitive connected TV that's very easy to use, as recounted by his official biographer. So far his approach goes through an external box, called Apple TV, a media receiver with wireless connectivity. Now in its third generation.

The first generation of Apple TV, which integrated a hard drive, reached the U.S. stores in March 2007. The second is stripped of the integrated hard drive, but maintained access to the Internet via Ethernet and Wi-Fi plus the ability to play streaming media content. This March 2012, premiered the third generation of the "box" of Apple playback capabilities in high definition (1080p). But that is not enough. What the company pursues its own connected TVs are known as Apple iTV.

The news about the future of HDTV-capable Apple Internet access are succeeding regularly, in the absence of confirmations. This time, the information comes from the president of Foxconn, a leading provider of Apple, which deals with the joining of brand products like the iPad, iPhone and Mac computers Leveraging the laying of the foundation stone of a factory in Shanghai, Terry Gou, the chairman of Foxconn, has revealed interesting details about Apple iTV television sets, as published by the China Daily.

The first is that Foxconn is preparing to manufacture the new Apple TV. And, recently, the Chinese manufacturer has partnered with Sharp to set up a joint venture in Japan dedicated to the production of television sets. Just last November 2011 rumors pointed that Sharp would handle that task, so that the first units were ready for the second half of 2012.



Foxconn Chairman pointed out other features of future Apple TVs, which have high-definition panels and have housings made of aluminum, a material modern yet elegant, the brand already used in other products like the iPad or iPod. In addition, Terry Gou has confirmed another feature that has been rumored since the launch of the iPhone 4S. ITV Apple TVs can understand verbal commands from users, with the addition of voice assistant Siri. Similarly, those connected TVs allow video calls, except that instead of using Skype, which is the most common service in smart TVs currently on the market, will be through FaceTime, its own protocol.

The previous wave of information on Apple TV iTV occurred in December 2011, when Apple was meeting with electronics companies and television world to exchange ideas

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