The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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People complaining about the upcoming Apple TV are missing out on 3 points:
1. Yes, there are similar devices already on the market, just like there were similar MP3 players on the market when the original iPod appeared. However, like the original iPod, the Apple TV offers style and convenience. If you have it on iTunes, you can access it with Apple TV. You don't have to know where your files are located, etc. Never underestimate the consumers' preference for convenience.
2. If you can put it on an iPod, you can put it on Apple TV. If you can convert divx and xvid to H.264 or MPEG-4 and add it to your iTunes library, you're set. In theory, you can do the same thing with DVDs.
3. There are people with home theaters who want to hear music on their "good" speakers without having to dig through their CD collection. Since their music most likely already in iTunes, why not just use Apple TV to stream their music to their home theater systems?
BONUS POINT:
The DVR market is NOT a good market to enter right now. The functions of a DVR are folding into cable boxes and the day is coming rapidly when people will stop buying separate DVR boxes because they will already have one, just like people have stopped buying calculators because you can do the same thing with other devices like cell phones. So leaving out the DVR functionality might actually be a good idea, since people who want one already have one.