Source: also.roybahat.com --- Saturday, September 30, 2017
Steve Jobs claimed Apple TV was always a side project, because there was no way to get people to buy a separate set-top box. (Ignoring all the Xboxes and PlayStations folks have bought, natch.) There’s one other obstacle to making a great Internet set-top box: the user controls stink. It’s really hard to get at all the content available on the open Internet (or even on Netflix or iTunes) while keeping the controls simple. You end up either using a wireless keyboard and trackpad (what I do at home, even though it’s ridiculous), or scrolling through the alphabet using a regular remote, which takes forever. The verbal controls on Xbox Kinect are a step in the right direction, but they only help with certain commands (“Pause”) and it doesn’t feel quite natural yet. Siri could fix all that. An Apple TV, with Siri, plus an app store so you can play games , will be something that could belong in every living room. What Siri means for TV was originally published in Also by Roy Bahat on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. ...
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