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Or so says this site: http://tutorialninjas.net/2007/03/26/hacking-the-apple-tv/

From what I’ve heard so far, there’s a lot of promise to the thing. I’m listening to MacBreak right now while reading some articles on Digg about the thing, and it’s going places. Out of the box, it’s nearly useless as far as I’m concerned, at least for people who aren’t iTunes Store whores. But crack it open, swap out the hard drive for a bigger one, and have some fun with the stripped-down OS X that it’s running. Leo’s talking about putting Bit-torrent directly on the thing… sounds fun.

And of course, people have already put some sort of Apache (or full MAMP maybe) install. Which means remote web GUIs for the thing, which you can bet will have some sort of AJAXey uploader like what Facebook has to stick your Xvid content on the thing.

I’m waiting a while before I get one (assuming that I don’t just go with XBMC), but it’s been out for, what, less than a week, and it’s already had an insane amount of hacks created to add some useful functionality. If people have already managed to get WoW running on the thing, I’m quite impressed. But what it really suggest to me is that there are TONS of people out there that will happily rip apart the iPhone once it’s released and get some third-party apps running on it. You know, like Skype :)

You go hackers!

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