Apple HDTV Featuring Siri Arrives in 2013
Apple's HDTV will come outfitted with the voice enabled Siri feature and could be gracing people's living rooms by 2013.
Nick Bilton, a writer for The New York Times, said his sources claim the Apple HDTV is a "guaranteed product."
Bilton gave his impressions of the HDTV and its Siri features: "It’s the stuff of science fiction. You sit on your couch and rather than fumble with several remotes or use hand gestures, you simply talk: 'Put on the last episode of Gossip Girl.' 'Play the local news headlines.' 'Play some Coldplay music videos.' Siri does the rest."
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"Of course this experience goes beyond just playing TV shows or the local news," Bilton added. "As the line between television programming and Web content continues to erode, a Siri-powered television would become more necessary. You aren’t going to want to flip through file folders or baskets of content, checking off what you want. Telling Siri to 'play videos of cute cats falling asleep' would return an endless YouTube stream of adorable napping fur balls."
Bilton also believes that Apple "still has quite a bit of work to do on the project."
The deceased former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, thought the entire TV industry was broken, according to his recent biography by Walter Isaacson.
"I'd like to create an integrated television set," said Jobs to Isaacson. "It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud... It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."
Jeff Robbin, the creator of iTunes, is reportedly in-charge of the Apple HDTV development project.
"Apple Inc. is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project,” wrote Bloomberg on its website. “Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition to the iTunes media store, is now guiding Apple’s internal development of the new TV effort, said the people, who declined to be identified because his role isn’t public."
