“A recent rumor posited that Apple’s answer to the Amazon Echo, which we’ve been calling the Siri Speaker, could be announced at WWDC,” Susie Ochs writes for Macworld.
“While all you’d really need for a Siri Speaker is a speaker that has Siri, that might not be enough to unseat the Echo or the Google Home—not to mention the brand-new Echo Show, which ups the ante by adding a screen, perfect for videochatting,” Ochs writes. “Or would it? After all, a connected speaker with AI seems like it would be right up Apple’s alley — a marriage of hardware, software, and services wrapped up in one attractive device (not unlike an iPad) with as few buttons as possible.”
“Apple certainly has its work cut out for it—the Siri Speaker has to look great, sound great, consistently offer delight without frustration, adapt to a whole family’s needs, and offer ironclad security,” Ochs writes. “Of course, Apple has come late to product categories before to wind up dominating — I can’t wait to see if the Siri Speaker is a game-changer like the iPod or a hobby like the Apple TV.”
What Ochs would like to see in a Siri Speaker here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sufficient supply at launch.
Once they finally get something shipping in quantity, it’ll be fun to watch how quickly Apple takes the top end of the market away from Amazon’s Echo since Apple’s solution will certainly have unique advantages within Apple’s ecosystem that makes it the obvious choice for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch users. — MacDailyNews, May 10, 2017
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Apple preps Amazon Echo rival, opening up Siri – May 24, 2016
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How about Alexa on a new Apple speaker? Siri sucks like a Dyson.
I have a Google Home and Alexa. Their speech-recognition (and responses) are infinitely better than Siri in nearly every way. Siri feels like an abandoned project at this point.
As I said last week Amazon having created an apparently hobbled but new category initial device are in the process of turning it into something they couldn’t (indeed failed to) do creating an iPad competitor. Only in this form can such a device truly be useful to the masses. So you can only shake your head as to just how Apple has so failed to get there first by simply tweaking what they already had years ago? Hardly instills confidence does it that Apple are on the ball at the moment even with products they own let alone new concepts.