Academic, yet in about every glovebox of every car is an insurance card and a registration certificate, both with full address and owner's name on them, and mandated by most states' law to be present in the vehicle.
The "box" is to be a built-in feature of the physical Apple TV series. It might be a small hard drive, but more likely will be an SSD with up-dateable firmware. Sharp is making the panels starting in February, with a rumored one billion dollar Apple co-investment with Sharp. Samsung, a panel partner recently, is out, due to the back and forth lawsuits between the companies. One recent rumor is that all Apple computers in 2011 and beyond, already have the tech inside to be TV's (albeit smaller screen) and will be instantly compatible when the new iOS comes out with the TV delivery system, whatever that will be. Siri support? Bet on it. And then some. And any small iOS device will also function as a remote (and TV). Long ago, Steve mentioned that all TV remote controls were unnecessarily over-complicated, and he hated every one of them he ever owned. So he had been thinking about that for about a decade or more. Now, all the pieces are there to give users a more pleasant TV viewing experience - and look at mid to late 2012 for the physical TV's, 32", 46/47" and 55" are probable sizes. Then add every most recent iOS or Mac computer as well. 2010 and < machines are probably SOL. Above are assumptions and compilations from MacRumors dot com. My own ideas of Apple TV are as follows. Currently, one tapes or records (i.e. TiVo) their own programs at home and watch them at their leisure. Now there is the iCloud. So let's say it is late 2012 and you subscribe to the Apple service. You want to record TVshow#1 and TVshow#2 at the same air time while also watching something else. And someone else in the house also wants their shows recorded. No problem. Here's what's likely to be a glimpse at how that will be done. First, you won't need that DVR anymore. Or the super expensive ATT-like U-verse tier. Second, you will be able to watch anything at anytime (even last week's stuff you forgot to record) because your shows will be always be available on the Cloud. And in fact everything everywhere (that Apple will subscribe to) will be there too. And it won't actually "record" it for you. The software system will place markers to start and stop points of the shows you choose so you can watch these at any time, delivered to you on any connected iOS device, anywhere. That's absolutely simple. And all the pieces to make it happen are there right now (except the iOS 6 rollout and the physical TV's). We just have to wait for the announcement. Sony and Samsung, and a couple others, are going ape#@*t trying to get their systems together before Apple does. Problem is that Apple has been working towards this goal for a few years or more, and pushed their cloud program for massive data storage ahead a year ahead of their competitors. Yes, there's "Google TV" and Hulu, but Apple should score big points and usability over those. Deals with movie companies with true 1080HD Cloud content have already been inked. Now, the big TV networks are next (or done, who knows?). Apple has spent many billions already, and are in the best position for this to happen. The only niggle is just how the heck is Apple going to deliver the bandwidth for all this? Currently, the only way is through conventional TV cable and internet IP's. Are they going to allow Apple to siphon off all their own customers? Or is Apple going to buy some of them outright? I can't believe a partnership would be advantageous to either party.
Content ownership is the key. Google is finding out the hard way with its TV adventure. Logitech has stopped making the Revue. Lots of industry resistance in this space. Apple might be able to pull it off. Or not...
Good news is, I don't need any of that stuff anyway. I haven't watched TV in over a decade. Seems like smart phones will be the new remote, and that'll be the way it is.
OMFG, Just got done watching the big bang theory S05E14 funniest episode ever. I laugh so hard when Kripke tried to work Siri.
Siri says Nokia Lumia 900 the best smartphone ever | Apple - CNET News but now that's been fixed. Nokia: Apple rigged Siri to name iPhone best phone | Apple - CNET News
I remembered at one time, I asked my friend's 4S the same question and it returned Galaxy SII as the best phone. On a similar topic, I'm getting excited about the Galaxy S III release. It has some cool first time ever smartphones features. Even though S-Voice is not one of first, I wanted to check it out anyway so I hit up youtube and saw this. Pretty impressive. It passed the woodchuck test on first try with people laughing in the background. It takes Siri a couple of tries to get the right answer.
Yep, Siri is funny. Sometimes she doesn't understand different accents and the response can be interesting. "Siri add underwear to clothes shopping list" "(Siri) O.K., I have found 2 Victoria Secret stores for you" This is not what I wanted. I need to keep Siri learning. Hopefully she will. DBCassidy
Last night my wife and I were talking about snails and we wondered what they ate, so I asked Siri "What do snails eat?", and her response was to provide a list of local restaurants! And the text of the question was shown to me, so I know Siri did not get the question wrong... And if you want to know the answer, Google pointed us to What do Snails Eat? (obvious, in retrospect).
Don't ask Siri about Siri. It could be similar to Googling Google, which, as everyone knows, will break the Internet. Tom
