Apple’s personal intelligent assistant Siri, which is available on portable iDevices, may soon come to Mac OS X.
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The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) of tech giant Apple is here once again with exciting events lined up beginning Monday until Friday for this time around between June 13th-17th 2016. That could allow, for example, iPhone users to ask Siri to call for an Uber ride or check in for a flight from an airline app. The developers conference, which focuses on software, has therefore become more significant for Apple after playing second fiddle to the company’s much-heralded hardware rollouts for years. It’s when Apple unveils its plans for new services and features that it intends to bring to its iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, as well as newer gadgets such as the Apple Watch and the Apple TV. However, this time the iPhone maker is likely to announce updates to the software side instead of the hardware changes.
As usual, Apple will be live streaming the WWDC keynote on its website, so Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users just need to follow the link in Safari.
Apple Music is expected to get a black and white UI, feature artwork more prominently and integrate lyrics. Mac users can also avail it if their Apple PCs run OS X Mountain Lion or above. At this year’s event, Apple is also expected to announce a refresh for its entire software lineup. “So it will add additional benefit, and open up Siri as a platform to the hundreds of apps that are already on your phone”.
This year a major redesign of Apple Music is rumoured.
Additionally, Apple is also said to be preparing to release a Siri software development kit so that developers can make their apps and app content accessible through Siri voice commands, marking a much-awaited extension of the assistant’s capabilities. There are also rumours of a new “For You” section that is aimed at helping people find new music.
While all of these are strong speculations, they are still not a reality and to see what Apple has to announce in real, you will have to wait few more hours until the conference starts.
There are some other updates expected as well such as App Store, Apple Pay, iMessage, and may be VR. Some developers who initially built and deployed apps on the store have pulled them, while others have stopped updating them.
Apple dived into the music streaming service a year ago, and has more than 10 million subscribers. But Gartner research VP Mark Hung tells Eadicicco he “expects these to be fairly “minor” announcements, however, so don’t expect to see a new Watch or other overhauls”.
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Launched in 2014, Apple Pay is the company’s mobile payments feature. If you could also use it on Android, Apple really would expand its reach deep into non-iPhone territory. OS X El Capitan follow-up should finally include Siri, a new iOS designed for the next iPhone, WatchOS which will improve current devices, but be made for the next generation devices, and a new AppleTVOS.
