Nick Bilton on an Apple Television Set: ‘It’s Not a Matter of if, It’s a Matter of When.’

# Daring Fireball: Nick Bilton on an Apple Television Set: 'It’s Not a Matter of if, It’s a Matter of [Image 1: Daring net/graphics/logos/) By **John Gruber** * Archive * The Talk Show * Dithering * Projects * Contact * Colophon * Feeds / Social * [Image 2: png) WorkOS launches md — an open protocol for agent registration. Nick Bilton on an Apple Television Set: ‘It’s Not a Matter of if, It’s a Matter of ’ And he says the interface will be Siri: > Alternative remote ideas floated by Apple included a wireless keyboard and mouse, or using an iPod, iPhone or iPad as a remote.

None of these concepts worked. But there was one “I finally cracked it” moment, when Apple realized you could just talk to your television. > > > Enter Siri. > > > 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 ” “Play the local news ” “Play some Coldplay music ” Siri does the rest. How would you tell Siri-on-TV to listen to your command, though, without an at least single-button remote?

Without a prompt, how does Siri know when you’re talking to it? ★ _Thursday, 27 October 2011_ Display Preferences Copyright © 2002–2026 The Daring Fireball Company LLC.