Apple's Time Capsule, media centre

I think Apple is missing a great opportunity with the Time Capsule. This product is a combination of a broadband router (needs external ADSL modem) and a WiFi NAS storage.

Now if it was able to run an OS like iOS then it could do a lot more things. Two of which would be very attractive to customers

1 iTunes. Image if you had iTunes running on your NAS. You would not need a computer, you could just use your iPod, iPad or iPhone to control it with the Remote App, and stream the audio and movies to Apple TV (HDMI video and digital audio out) or to an Airport Express (analog or digital audio out).



You would need a new App to do purchasing through the iTunes Store, but this should be pretty simple to write.

Such a setup would attract thousands of people who are searching for a home media centre solution.

2 A web server! Which could interface with the iweb application (now sadly being retired?) and allow you to create your own web hosted site. The only drawback here is that you would need a fixed IP address and a registered Domain name, but these are easily overcome hurdles of the internet.

So how about it Apple? Especially number 1.