28.09.2010 18:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

AppleTV under the hood: first look

As TUAW posted earlier, the iOS 4.1 firmware distribution for AppleTV has just gone live on Apple's Phobos webserver. TUAW downloaded a copy and used the dev-team's decrypt keys to peek under the hood. Here's what we found about the "Mojave" Apple TV distribution. First, as expected, there's no SpringBoard.app in Core Services. SpringBoard is the application that runs your iPhone's home screen, letting you launch applications by touching them. Instead, AppleTV seems to run LowTide, an application responsible for all user interactions, which is derived from the previous FrontRow application. LowTide handles media playback, rentals, DRM management (Fair Play, of course) and other basic se

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