It's been a long time since we've taken a look at any of Philips Streamium wireless products, and in that time, companies like Roku, Sonos and Slim Devices (not to mention Microsoft and its varioushardware partners) have taken a big chunk of the home streaming market.
Apple's moves come as fiercer competition among hardware makers is leading them to compete over software and giving consumers a familiar experience across variousdevices.
"Other software packages in this space, like Orb and Single-Click, are focused on streaming digital content to variousdevices on the network, or are utilities that only attempt to deal with one kind of hardware device, " he said.