I don’t think I’ve ever seen Craig Federighi as nervous as he was in this interview where Joanna Stern asked difficult but predictable questions about why, so far, not even artificial intelligence has been able to render Siri mildly useful.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Craig Federighi as nervous as he was in this interview where Joanna Stern asked difficult but predictable questions about why, so far, not even artificial intelligence has been able to render Siri mildly useful.
Netflix launch reduces BitTorrent use
Joe Hanlon of TechRadar:
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says that there is a correlation between the Netflix launching in a country and BitTorrent traffic slowing down in the same region.
If you stream it, they will pay.
Google’s answer to AirPlay comes to YouTube for iOS, sends video to consoles and TVs
I’ve been doing this from my Galaxy Nexus for a while now. I paired my phone to my Xbox 360 so I can pull videos up on my phone’s YouTube app (which is much easier to use than the Xbox app) and then send to my TV via the console. It’s a great experience.
If you need some YouTube content to try this out with, consider the massive Slenderman collection I linked to at my personal blog yesterday.
This is interesting: Netflix delivers its streaming option via one of Amazon’s cloud storage and content distribution networks. I try to avoid summarizing other peoples’ work, but the other interesting bit here is that Amazon’s in-house streaming video service saw no interruption.
If I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I’d throw around phrases like “net neutrality concerns” right about now. Is Amazon prioritizing their own content over the content of competitors whose content they’re contracted to deliver?