Speculation: Will Apple soon offer game rentals on Apple TV?
If you’re an American, you can rent TV shows on the new Apple TV. Companies like Warner have bitched about low revenues, but they’ll change their tune when Fox and ABC start making money hand-over-fist. It’s also been shown that Apple TV runs iOS (Wired), the same operating system that powers the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. However, since it has little on-board storage, it’s unlikely you’ll be stuffing if full of iOS apps and games any time soon, according to just about everyone.
The thing is, Apple TV isn’t about stuffing it full of anything. The idea is to stream content or rent. To that end, I wonder whether Apple will provide games for the system, but using some kind of rental model. Shove Game Center into the mix and you wouldn’t lose your scores, so you could download Soopah Arcade Funk for a buck, play it until your brain melts, then return to it via another rental a few months later and continue where you left off.
it would be good it were possible rather than actually having the app on apple tv you could somehow stream a game from the iphone and play it thru apple tv.
Timmer: That would also make sense, and given that there are iPhone/iPad games (play on the latter, control from the former), it can’t be outside the realms of possibility.