pmz

Prof_Peabody said:

 any real world advantage (beyond the novelty) of controlling it with my iPhone either.  

Smart Appliance > HomeKit > Siri > Hey Siri.

It is still in the stages of "just getting there", but with always-on Hey Siri, the possibilities of being able to walk into a room and say "Hey Siri, Living Room Lights On" and it just happens, is where this is all going. 

Fiddling with your iPhone to get to the App that has the controls is never going to feel a lot more convenient than just flipping a switch....but completely handsfree voice control over smart appliances...it doesnt get much better than that.

Plex hasn't included Siri search in iOS 9 yet, what makes you think it is coming to AppleTV anytime soon? This feature would basically cap off my media server needs.

Instant buy to replace my wife's 5s.

+1 for HomeKit. I've now spent the money on two different home lightning systems, one to replace the either, and both ended up being completely dead-end products with no hope of future advancement. I should have bought Philips Hue from the start, and now I have wait until I can somehow justify spending a couple hundred on yet another system of lights to replace my current lights, so that I can have the benefit of HomeKit, decent switches, and a decent App.

tmay said:

pmz said:

Do people really that much time watching Netflix while on cellular, that this so-called "Binge On" is even needed?
Why are you not on WiFi?
And if you're somewhere that isn't near WiFi, aren't you already doing something more interesting than watching ****ing television?

Some people don't have or won't pay for WiFi; my brother is in a location that Cable and DSL are quite expensive, so as a Sprint Unlimited user, he plugs his iPhone into his television and watches Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Prime.

He used 26 GB one month but sometime later, Sprint came out with a throttling policy after 23 GB. 

No.

None of that makes any sense. If you don't pay for some kind of WiFi and use cellular instead, you're an idiot.