REPORT: The Apple Television Will Support Hand Gestures And Siri Integration. Siri ported to iPad, still getting silent treatment from Apple servers. Analysts: Apple prototyping television set for a 2012 launch, but it won’t come cheap. Apple television mockup by 9to5Mac. “It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.” These are the exact words of Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs, as revealed in the just released authorized biography by Walter Isaacson. In his own admission prior to his death earlier this month, Jobs was working on “an integrated television set that is completely easy to use”, a solution which would be “seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud”.
The quote served as the basis for Piper Jaffray’s resident Apple analyst Gene Munster, the most outspoken proponent of an Apple-branded television set. A significant hurdle to a full-fledged Apple (AAPL) television set (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box), Munster writes, is combining live television with shows previously captured on iCloud. Meanwhile, premium TV brands are working their way down to the sub-$1,000 mark, but that really hasn’t stopped Apple from succeeding in the past. A Duet with Siri. Siri for Venture Capitalists. Why Apple's Amazing Siri May Herald the End of the iPhone. Co-Founder of Siri: Assistant launch is a “World-Changing Event” (Interview) On Tuesday, Apple will change the way humans interact with electronic devices. All over again. Perhaps the biggest announcement at Apple’s iPhone event on Tuesday will be Assistant, Apple’s evolution of the Siri Personal Assistant Software. Siri, you’ll remember, is the company Apple picked up for a rumored $200 million in April of last year for, in Steve Jobs’ words, its “Artificial Intelligence”, not search or speech recognition.
During Siri’s brief two months on its own, it described itself as a ‘VPA’: Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next generation interaction paradigm for the Internet. In today’s paradigm, we follow links on search results. With a VPA, we interact by having a conversation. Apple has long wanted to bring an Artificial Intelligence-based Personal Assistant to the masses. The world has come a long way since then, but as you’ll see on Tuesday, Apple had remarkable foresight way back in 1987.
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