“Apple essentially created the personal digital assistant when it launched Siri with the iPhone 4s back in 2011,” Andrew Bulkeley writes for TheStreet. “In the last year or two, however, Amazon has taken over the category with its popular Echo device, and Alphabet recently announced its own plans to launch a personal digital assistant device called Google Home.”
“Now it appears Apple is looking to regain its dominance,” Bulkeley writes. “According to The Information, the iPhone maker will open its Siri digital personal assistant up to outside developers and provide guidance on how to produce apps at its Worldwide Developers Conference June 13 to June 17 in San Francisco. Apple is also reportedly working on an interactive home speaker to compete against Echo and Home.”
“Apple’s own device was reportedly under development before Amazon released its Echo devices last year and already includes connectivity for its HomeKit connected home technology,” Bulkeley writes. “Although the device may be months or possibly years off, analysts almost universally agree that opening Siri to outside developers is prudent, since external companies already have written what are essentially apps to expand Echo’s capabilities.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Opening up Siri to developers and launching an Amazon Echo-like appliance? Better late than never!
As we wrote back in April: Apple, the world’s most valuable company, looks LAZY from the outside. Where is the Retina Thunderbolt Display for Mac users? Where are the new Macs? Why can’t Apple manage to make a new phone every year when far lesser companies can?
SEE ALSO:
Apple to say ‘me too’ with a Siri-powered connected home speaker – May 25, 2016
Apple should make a stationary voice command device like Amazon’s Echo – May 19, 2016
Google unveils its Amazon Echo knockoff called ‘Google Home’ – May 18, 2016
Where’s Apple’s answer to Amazon Echo? – March 31, 2016
Amazon Echo leads mindshare in smart home platform war – February 29, 2016