Apple had another show packed with things. I watched it with some joy and some pain and some concern.
Apple TV opening up for App store was a breath of fresh air for me. It was too constrained as it is locking up not playing many of the media formats and not able to access a network storage to directly play content. I had to always have some iOS or Mac OS machine on for my media player to work:( But now with the Plex and VNC actively jumping into the fray to build apps, I am hoping I can soon shelf the WD TV or atleast use it else where as a second player.
The Siri Remote was interesting. I am not a great gamer so did not get intrigued by that feature. But having Siri to control home is of interest to me as you could have understood already from my blogs. What I am not clear is if the HomeKit is already baked into the puck and do I have to keep pressing the Siri button on the remote to initiate the Siri or there is some way I can have it always On. Because for a media room it may be fine to have the button pressed, but for some other a hands free mode is very useful.
Then there was the iPad Pro. I always liked the ability to digitally draw and mark things up and the Pencil is right there. But it also meant that apple is slightly forking off from Job's ideas. The large iPad and the pencil were two was probably a sign of days to come. Also we saw a bigger spotlight on Microsoft and Adobe than couple of years before. Is that bad in itself? No. But something tells me the tracks are about to shift.
It looked to me that Johny Ive is a person of great skills and being now at a plateau where there is no one to really push him, he may be a bit lost with motivation. I feel that Ive is missing Jobs to push him. Now that Jobs not around, I would hope Ive will do it to himself and continue the legacy.
Apple TV opening up for App store was a breath of fresh air for me. It was too constrained as it is locking up not playing many of the media formats and not able to access a network storage to directly play content. I had to always have some iOS or Mac OS machine on for my media player to work:( But now with the Plex and VNC actively jumping into the fray to build apps, I am hoping I can soon shelf the WD TV or atleast use it else where as a second player.
The Siri Remote was interesting. I am not a great gamer so did not get intrigued by that feature. But having Siri to control home is of interest to me as you could have understood already from my blogs. What I am not clear is if the HomeKit is already baked into the puck and do I have to keep pressing the Siri button on the remote to initiate the Siri or there is some way I can have it always On. Because for a media room it may be fine to have the button pressed, but for some other a hands free mode is very useful.
Then there was the iPad Pro. I always liked the ability to digitally draw and mark things up and the Pencil is right there. But it also meant that apple is slightly forking off from Job's ideas. The large iPad and the pencil were two was probably a sign of days to come. Also we saw a bigger spotlight on Microsoft and Adobe than couple of years before. Is that bad in itself? No. But something tells me the tracks are about to shift.
It looked to me that Johny Ive is a person of great skills and being now at a plateau where there is no one to really push him, he may be a bit lost with motivation. I feel that Ive is missing Jobs to push him. Now that Jobs not around, I would hope Ive will do it to himself and continue the legacy.
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