Siri is one of the first assistants to hit the market, hand in hand with the iPhone 4s, but since then has always been in the background, without paying the slightest attention to it. Over the years, both Google with Google Now, Microsoft with Cortana and now Samsung, have been working on their different virtual assistants placing them above Siri, which has become very out of date if we buy it with its rivals. But it seems that finally the guys at Apple have realized that it was wasted and that they were falling behind. The first step was to offer Siri in macOS Sierra, finally the Siri assistant arrived on Apple's desktop version, but as always very limited, as in iOS.
As reported by the DigiTimes publication, Apple is focusing on improving Siri in all its aspects. Although the latest versions of iOS have offered us a more proactive Siri, it is still quite low compared to its rivals. But DigiTimes is not the only source that claims that Apple is working on it, since the new R&D center that will open in Japan next March, will focus on artificial intelligence, a subject in which Japan wants be in the lead and where Siri has a very important role.
But Apple's interest in improving the usefulness and operation of Siri is not based solely on the versions for iOS and macOS, but also, according to some media, intends to launch this year a device that can commit from you to you with Google Home and Amazon Echo, the virtual assistants that more and more users have in their homes and with whom in addition to making the shopping list, we can ask them about the weather, the traffic, the appointments on our agenda, what movie they are making tonight ...
