Past discussion about a rare disease that found a cure, but due to economics and possibly efficacy it isn't produced any more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475919 glybera
Apple TV, in my opinion, has been a really expensive streaming device with a nicer UI. I only have one because it was a work gift. What changed for me in the past year was having young kids and letting them play freely in apple's walled garden - arcade. You get the benefits of privacy and lack of monetization. For the most part, the quality/gameplay isn't up to nintendo, but at their age I can see they're just as excited to play these games as we did with ones made for 90's consoles.
The next thing was seeing how well a fairly hardcore FPS ran on my iphone (it's the one with warfare in it). Put that on an apple TV with a new chip or variant of the M1 and you have enough tech capabilities to play the majority of last gen console games. You won't have all the graphics capabilities but I think the nintendo switch and the mobile market have shown it's not a necessity.
Total cost needs to include two controllers too - $200 for an apple tv plus $100. The one bit of accounting that consoles do, is take a hit on the hardware for licensing fees on games. Doubtful apple would play that game, but I could see them throwing some app store credits and package in all the services they have now. Fanboy or not, all these add up to a compelling future for the apple gaming console.
- "gas prices" pull up the gasbuddy website, regex the first element and get siri to read it aloud.
- "going home" Uses maps to obtain how long it takes to get home from my current location, sets the volume to 70% to get siri to dictate it, and sends the ETA and a nice message to my +1 that i'll be home soon. Version 2 will be to prompt me when I actually leave the GPS of my office around 5-7pm and send it after verbal confirmation. (Barring if there's a pop up that has been mentioned)
- "Share Location" this is one of the ones available in gallery that let's you send people your current location. I hope they make 'Share ETA' available but I don't see that option in maps yet. That would let people know when i'm arriving at their house.
This is fun enough that I'm hoping to buy some NFC stickers and get some homekit devices to play with.