Airplay on G1 ATV's and Apple marketing

Take a look at the pre-release IOS4.2 announcements from Apple.
“AirPlay lets you stream digital media wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to your Apple TV and AirPlay-enabled speakers.”*
I don’t see any caveat or clarification that this function is only supported with the G2 ATV. By today’s accepted standards of honesty in advertising, particularly by reputable companies, I believe Apple have crossed the line with this one.
Apple marketing has always been a slick affair but when it knowingly creates product functionality expectations in the minds of customers with existing hardware and then fails to deliver to those expectations then it begins to smack of arrogance.
What cost to Apple if they indicated in their pre-release marketing statements that the AirPlay functionality was only supported in the G2 device? Certainly the G1 customers like me would have been disappointed but not feel like we don’t matter. Would they lose some customers as a result.....probably but they will lose a lot more by treating their existing loyal customers with apparent contempt.

I agree. Their campaigns mention AppleTV here and there but, I have unfortunately noticed that in some instances, they refer to "the new AppleTV". Plus, their marketing practices have always referred to pretty much all their products as *"the new +insert product name here+ available now...etc"*
Having a AppleTV G1 myself, I'm still hoping that somehow update the software to support AirPlay somehow. It's wishful thinking, I know, but one can hope...

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