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Apple opens Siri to third party developers
- chintan 10y agoIs it open to all app developers or just the selected apps they mentioned? Wasn't clear in the demo.
- jdminhbg 10y agoIt wasn't clear to me either. In the developer extensions slide, I see a reference to "SiriKit" which might mean it's totally open?
- tjl 10y agoIt's sort of open. https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/ https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/ Basically, it looks like you can extend Siri in a few different ways, just like extensions last year. I expect that it will open up as time goes on. The API reference documentation is linked to at the bottom of the page.
- hjnilsson 10y agoI would assume it is all. But limited to the few example categories of queries the demonstrated. Interestingly, they did not demonstrate a media query (i.e. Play Metallica on Spotify). If they don't open up for that, it is a pretty significant limitation of the API.
- shakeel_mohamed 10y agoIt could be intentional, there's already siri commands for Apple Music.
- Artemis2 10y agoThey are likely to support these, Cortana supported media queries on its release two years ago.
- toxican 10y agoI had web dev on the mind and was really confused about why Siri needed CSS support
- tiziano88 10y ago"Now in iOS 10 we have an intense API" did they mean "intents" by any chance?
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- AnkhMorporkian 10y agoNope! Siri now screams at you when you miss an argument to an endpoint. It's pretty intense.
- Aqua_Geek 10y agoYes, it's intents: https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/ https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/
- Natanael_L 10y agoAre these intents only open to Siri? If so, and if security is the cause: on Android, apps have the option of looking up the app triggering an intent of theirs to check its APK signature in order to verify the origin (allows for secure inter-app communication).
- avn2109 10y agoPart of me wonders if that line was dictated to Siri instead of typed.
- drcongo 10y agoHow do TechCrunch articles get on the HN homepage so often? They're all horribly written and full of errors.
- LoSboccacc 10y agoTechcrunch writes articles to bring visibility to yc startups and hn pays back sending eyeballs to techcrunch.
- benmarks 10y agoThis seems like an obvious and necessary move given the ramped up competition from other platforms & increase in voice interaction with devices.
- singularity2001 10y agoThis has nothing to do with 'open' : Add SiriKit support only if your app implements one of the following types of services: Audio or video calling Messaging Payments Searching photos Workouts Ride booking https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/Intents/Conceptual/SiriIntegrationGuide/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016875 https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum...
- singularity2001 10y agoAt least they now let you build a better Siri alternative: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/samplecode/SpeakToMe/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40017110 https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/sampl... iOS 10.0 not Max
- avn2109 10y agoIndeed, the core use case for an open Siri would be to avoid Apple Maps, e.g. by telling her to "use Google Maps to navigate me to X." They seem to be explicitly forbidding this :(
- MBCook 10y agoThe fact that anyone can do anything with Siri is a HUGE opening from what's deployed now, where Siri can open your app by name and that's it. Now there are defined integration points that are open to all developers. It's not 100%, but that's not Apple's way. Even if they go there they do it a step at a time. This is still a huge improvement for users.
- nil_is_me 10y agoSo the system Siri is only accessible for a few very specific app use cases. What a dissapointment