I am really happy with mine so far, especially being able to stream audio to my bluetooth headset, and having an HBO Nordics app (since I am in Sweden), so that I am not always air playing things across. Both of these are a big step forward for me. I think the app store is going to be a big a deal on the apple TV as it was with the iPhone, lovely potential.
So my gripes don't make me regret my purchase, but they do detract from the overall experience.
I am another person frustrated by Siri's universal search, and I hope that this will improve in time. I was playing around with it, asking it to find me things that I know are available in my Netflix or HBO Nordics subscriptions. Of the ten or so shows I tried it picked up just one for Netflix and none for HBO Nordics (so maybe that isn't supported yet, fingers crossed the release of the API will solve that). In all cases it just suggested I buy the content from iTunes, but I know it is there already in my subscription services.
This is an issue for me for a couple of reasons:
- It is much faster to search through siri, particularly when the remote app on my phone doesn't work, and when you can't use siri/voice functionality to perform the search from within the search window of netflix - essentially I find myself scrolling through the alphabet a lot and that dents my experience.
- I don't tryst universal search to find me the content which is within my subscriptions, which I don't know about. I find myself suspicious that it is trying to get me to buy more from iTunes, when I already have the legal right to watch this content through my paid for subscriptions.
Siri can't tell me what the weather forecast is because she doesn't know my location, although I am not sure why.
Siri didn't seem able to tell me any sport scores, maybe I am using the wrong commands... then again siri has never been able to understand the name of the team I cheer for on any device. The team in Hull City, which she always interprets as Whole City, and then gets confused about.
Anyone else having similar issues with Siri? Is it a lack of support in Europe thing? Do we think it might improve in time?
EDIT: Actually, you know what, today she is doing a lot better than yesterday - she knows where I am and could find more stuff on Netflix, but it seems to be the stuff which is available on US netflix, which is fine when their content matches up here in Sweden, but less useful when it doesn't... for example all three Hobbit movies are apparently available in the US, but here I can only get the second one. Obviously on the one hand it would be nice if Netflix here was more complete, but as it isn't it would be nice if Siri knew which Netflix titles are available here.
The weather works today too... so I guess this is just one of those things about siri being better sometimes than others.
Still nothing from the HBO Nordics app, and still can't understand Hull City... apparently if I supported Tottenham it would be a non-issue, but that isn't really going to happen.
