“Seems like everyone… has a connected home hub you can talk to,” Nate Swanner writes for TNW. “If a new report from The Information is correct, you can count Apple in.”
“Joining Google Home and Amazon’s Echo may be a Siri-powered hub, according to the report,” Swanner writes. “It’ll have a speaker and mic, obviously, and will launch alongside a new Siri API and SDK for developers to tap into, perhaps as early as this June at WWDC.”
“If anything, Google’s Home proved how limited Siri can be,” Swanner writes. “An SDK and/or API will help, but Apple will be playing a bit of catch-up.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Funny, we just say “Hey Siri” and there she is – everywhere and at all times – because she’s on our wrist during every waking hour, wherever we are, in every place, not stuck on a table in one room somewhere.
That said, there clearly is a market for such stationary devices that can be plugged into the wall, not dependent on battery power. As we wrote last month:
Something along the lines of Amazon Echo is what Apple should have done if run by competent, forward-thinking management. When Apple finally does do their version of Amazon Echo (and they will get around to doing such a product eventually) they will rightly be called a follower. The company had all of the ingredients to make their own Echo, before Amazon, except for the vision, it seems.
As we wrote earlier this month:
We’ll see what Apple has up their sleeve at WWDC and when it ships before we proclaim a winner in the race to echo Echo.