When Apple extended iOS from the iPhone and iPod touch to the iPad, skeptics scoffed at the idea of porting the operating system for handheld devices to a tablet computer. Now Apple practically owns the tablet market. Rumor has it that the next step will be an iOS-powered TV.

Granted, this is only the latest prediction among many that Apple would move into the TV set market.

Still, Daily Tech is quoting a "former Apple executive" as saying the company will "blow Netflix and all those other guys away" by incorporating the Apple TV set top box platform and iTunes into a video display. A TV manufacturing partner has already been chosen, according to the same report, naming Samsung. A fall launch is predicted.

What would an Apple television set look like? We're guessing like the iMac, pictured. As for the name of the product: iTV?

See Daily Tech and, for analyst quotes, Apple Insider.