Nov 14
Future of Siri
The API for developers to interact with Siri will be in the cloud.
Siri requests are processed in the cloud, so the shortest path from Siri to apps is within iCloud.
This will require apps to be integrated with iCloud. Siri API will be a part of the iCloud API.
How this could work:
- An iPhone user speaks to Siri.
- Siri in the cloud deciphers the user’s speech, and figures out that the user wants a service from app X.
- Siri invokes the iCloud API of app X. App X responds with some text, an image, and/or a URL that their iPhone app has registered.
- iCloud returns this data to the iPhone, and Siri speaks the text, displays the image, and/or jumps to the developer’s app on the device.
What I haven’t figured out yet is how developers will register their apps to be invoked for certain phrases. Seems incredibly broad. And how will competing apps register to receive the same invocations?
It’s going to be very interesting.
