Just the other day I was wondering what happened to the rumor about an SDK for the Apple TV. That used to be a thing we talked about but I hadn’t heard much about it lately. Ben Thompson lights that fire again, predicting it’ll come next week with a revamped Apple TV controller.

I certainly don’t know, but I’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop for a couple of years now.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who could probably drop the “J.” without losing any name recognition, writing for ZDNet:

While Microsoft apologists focus on Windows continuing to be the dominant desktop operating system, they keep missing the two elephants in the room: Windows 8 continues to fall behind Microsoft’s previous top operating system failure, Vista, and Windows is no longer the dominant end-user operating system when PCs, smartphones and tablets are considered.

Please remember that, while I keep jerktastically point this stuff out, I am on record as calling Windows 8 my favorite version of Windows ever. Unfortunately, I might be the wrong demographic for Microsoft to try to appeal to. Apparently.

Horace Dediu looks at what happens when you count tablets as PCs, Seen this way, Windows has now reached 60% market share and it’s likely to dip below 50% during this year.

So now you know why there might be a shakeup at Microsoft soon.

Same screen as the high-end model, 16 GB, with no rear-facing camera or no lanyard — $229.

Apple has such flexibility with the iPod line because it basically has no serious competition (other than smartphones). With the iPhone, however, they don’t have the flexibility to remove basic features to make a low-end device. Other than making it plastic and lower capacity, I struggle with conceiving how they make a lower-cost iPhone.

Matt Alexander ponders how Glass and an Apple watch might become successful:

In the years leading up to the iPad — the time during which Microsoft continued to push outmoded tablet technology — Apple released the iPhone. It was a device steeped in obviousness for even the most technology illiterate person — a device which paved the way toward a larger computing equivalent of the device.

I suspect that, if Apple does introduce a wrist-worn device over the next twelve months, we’ll witness a similar trajectory.

To me it seems like Glass might do almost the opposite, trickle down instead of bubble up. I can see immediately uses for Glass in vertical markets, as Tim Cook mentioned — things like breaking news and medical instruction. At the same time, technology enthusiasts will start to experiment with it, ideally outside of the shower. But it won’t reach broad appeal in its current format, it’ll take a number of iterations to get the creepy dork factor out before that can happen.

Horace Dediu:

If you need the satisfaction that comes from knowing that money is being spent, a glance at the Cash Flow statement and Balance Sheet shows that Apple buys the equivalent of one Yahoo! every three years.

Don’t they know that all customers want larger screens?

Here’s my suggested marketing phrase: “The same Galaxy S4 you know and love, but without the ‘innovation’.”