In iOS 10, Apple is opening
Siri up to developers to let you do more with just your voice via third - party apps.
Apple opened
Siri up to developers for the first time at the World Wide Developers Conference 2017 in May, which means that it could be integrated further into devices with the capabilities to send messages, make calls, and assist users in workouts.
Not exact matches
Siri opened
up to developers The sassy voice assistant has been a breakout hit for Apple since its introduction with the iPhone 4S in October, but it's missing something big.
What we're hearing is that not only will there be more storage, and
Siri support, but an App Store may just finally come
to the Apple TV, with an SDK opened
up for
developers to make their own apps...
Over the course of the past year — which saw booming interest in bots and artificial intelligence —
Siri has largely been overshadowed by competitors like Microsoft's Cortana, Amazon's Alexa, and the Google Assistant, each of which has opened
up to third - party
developers.
Speculation about the launch of a
Siri - based speaker has heated
up in recent weeks, following last month's report from KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo, who said there was a greater than 50 percent chance that Apple would unveil such a device at WWDC, which would give
developers time
to write new apps for it in time for the holiday shopping season.
Of course, this all assumes that
Siri will be opened
up and actively encourage a broad set of use cases that will entice
developers to get started.
The reason HomePod is ranking below the others is because, at the moment, we've only had the chance
to play around with it at Apple's busy Worldwide
Developers Conference (WWDC)-- and even then,
Siri wasn't properly
up and running.
A new beta of watchOS is now available
to developers, and it extends abilities
Siri picked
up in iOS 10
to Apple's smartwatch.
While there are rumors that Apple will open
up Siri to third - party
developers ahead of a shipping an Echo - like product of its own, and
Siri, Cortana, and Google Now all have at least limited third - party support, Amazon in unique in the way it has opened Alexa
to rapid third - party development without subjecting those
developers to heavy oversight.
Although it wasn't mentioned in the macOS part of the presentation, the big news here is that Apple is opening
up Siri to third party
developers, so presumably you'll be able
to do much more outside of Apple first - party apps which often have better third party counterparts.
Unlike
Siri, which remains relatively locked
to third party solutions, Amazon opened
up the Alexa API
to developers worldwide.
It will also be able
to control smart home devices and work with third - party apps, as Apple is reportedly opening
up Siri so that
developers can finally leverage the voice assistant's powers.
Apple opens
up Siri to other app
developers via
Siri SDK, which will significantly improve the assistant's capabilities.
While
developers might not like their apps
to be obscured by
Siri, LinkedIn's vice president of engineering, Kirin Prasad, told the WSJ that it opens
up the service
to be used for messaging, which most users otherwise don't think
to use it for.
iOS 10 also opens
up incredible opportunities for
developers with
Siri, Maps, Phone and Messages APIs, allowing customers
to do more than ever with the apps they love
to use.
Apple opened
up Siri to third party
developers and said its APIs already connect with Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, Uber, Lyft, Photo Search, MapMyRun., Runtastic, SquareCash and CarPlay.
It further claims the company will soon open
up its
Siri voice assistant
to third - party app
developers.
According
to iOS
developer Guilherme Rambo, there will be more than one way of waking
up Siri in the iPhone 8.