Fast Company  Apple's Entertainment Roadmap: Simple, Connected,
and in the Cloud  Steve Jobs presentation  There were few
surprises during today's Apple event, many of the new products--
including the touchscreen Nano, a social network, a cheaper
Netflix-toting Apple TV, and front-facing-camera-toting iPod
Touch--were rumored with surprising accuracy. But put together,
these announcements reveal a lot about where Apple is pushing
its entertainment division.  The Fourth Leg: Apple TV  At the
2008 World Wide Developer Conference, CEO Steve Jobs showed a
three-legged stool during his presentation. Each leg represented
one part of Apple's business: Music, iPhone and Mac. After the
event, many people wondered where Apple TV fit in--where was the
fourth leg? Today, we found out.  The new Apple TV is
streamlined to a fault, and forgoes two major elements that just
about every other competing media streamer offers: internal and
external storage. Apple TV has no internal storage, like a hard
drive or flash storage for