Apple TV users were left with the third generation unit for far too long. As many waited for years to see what Apple would do next, the wait seemed obnoxiously long. Now we know why. In a deep dive on Apple’s AI efforts, Backchannel notes that Siri is the reason the current Apple TV took so long to arrive: Apple now says that without those advances in Siri, it’s unlikely it would have produced the current iteration of the Apple TV, distinguished by sophisticated voice control. While the earlier versions of Siri forced you to speak in a constrained manner,…

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