[Njtechdiv] Apple's rival to Echo and Home

[Janie Degenshein]

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Apple reportedly working on a rival to Amazon's Echo
http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/24/apple-reportedly-working-on-a-rival-to-amazons-echo/

by Nicole Lee,
Personal Computing

While much of Silicon Valley has been duking it out with each other in
the artificial intelligence wars, Apple has been strangely silent. But
it might not be for much longer.

The Information has just reported that Apple is working on two bold new
moves to broaden its AI strategy. First, the Cupertino firm will
supposedly open up Siri to third-party developers, so that the voice
assistant can be used with anyone's apps, not just Apple's own. More
interestingly, however, Apple is also apparently working on a smart
Bluetooth speaker not unlike Amazon's Echo  or Google Home.
It'll have a microphone and is supposedly Siri-powered, so you'd be able
to use it to turn on music, get headlines or do a variety of other
tasks, like turning on the lights. According to a source for The
Information, Apple has been working on this device long before the Echo
launched last year.

Artificial intelligence has been a focus for Apple's rivals for quite
awhile now; Google, Facebook, Amazon and even Microsoft have invested
heavily in AI to improve the quality of digital assistants (which are
sometimes referred to as bots). Siri, on the other hand, has remained
fairly stagnant and limited in scope when compared to the competition.
There's no official word from Apple on how much more it plans to invest
in AI, but we're betting we'll hear more about it at Apple's WWDC event
in a couple of weeks.

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Janie Degenshein
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