Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's co-founder and performer in chief, rarely shows any reluctance to sell -- or even over-sell -- his company's accomplishments.
But on Tuesday, I believe he underplayed a major move by Apple to grab the best spot on the couch, so to speak, at the center of the digital living room.
Jobs began a 35-minute presentation to several hundred journalists gathered inside Apple's Cupertino headquarters by declaring he would only talk about ``medium-scale things.' He then literally pulled the veil off a new version of the Mac mini computer and a big external speaker for the iPod music player.
Jobs spent only about five minutes talking about what I see as the big news of the day: Apple's first software for using a home network through a television screen rather than a computer monitor.
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