Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue shows CNNMoney’s Brian Stelter the updated features of the new Apple TV, like Siri and the Siri Remote.
We wanted to change what TV is and, to us, TV is about apps. In order to do that, we had to bring in a touch interface; the same thing you have with your iPhone and how it revolutionized things which was apps and a touch interface. So, we came up with a remote that actually lets you touch and slide across and move very quick and also takes advantage of things like Siri, so you can talk to it to find things. And then, bring the app ecosystem [to Apple TV] which – the greatest thing about apps is that you don’t know what people are going to do with them; they’ve created incredible apps that you’ve never thought of on iOS and we think the same thing is going to happen on television. — Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services
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