I want!!! Must buy these shoes! Damnit... When do they come out engadget?

I'm glad to hear that at least apple isn't stupid enough to think that people aren't going to hack the crap out of their products. It's very refreshing to see a company that will sit back and let people do as they please with a device they own (and have every right to hack in my humble opinion). Heck, apple will likely end up selling a bunch more of these rigs because of it, and if people are voiding their warranties, then they can charge them to fix them if they screw up their machines trying to hack it.

Apple will most likely get a lot of good ideas for different things to do with their machines and new features people want added (which will no doubt be in a future, more expensive revision of the apple tv).

Yeah! How dare microsoft put out a better Xbox360... For that matter, how dare intel put out a faster processor, I mean shouldn't everyone just be happy with the pentium one and never upgrade, and shouldn't dvd burner's always stay at 1x burning and never get any faster. And sony shouldn't release a new PSP either, nor should nintendo have put out a newer, smaller, brighter version of the DS.

Wait a minute, maybe, just maybe, technology gets better, faster, brighter over time, and it just makes sense that a company would respond to consumer demand by releasing newer and better versions of it's products. Oh nevermind, that's just crazy talk.