“Apple is looking to end those fights over the television remote by making your Apple TV experience more personalized,” Michael Casey reports for CBS News.
“In patent application filed by company, it detailed a system that would allow you to log in with a fingerprint,” Casey reports. “While it didn’t single out Apple TV, the application filed Thursday mentioned a set box several times and said the system would allow individual users to customize things like volume levels, screen layout, background picture and other settings.”
“It cited several examples in the application where the system could be beneficial, including allowing a husband and wife to access their own settings on the television as well limiting the content seen by children,” Casey reports. “It also could be used to allow the authentication of ‘the user for one or more content delivery and/or other services with which the user has an account.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Okay, so we’ve been ready for this years ago – bring it on already!
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