Writing Future

When I try to control an Apple device via "Hey Siri"

Originally shared on Facebook

When I try to control an Apple device via “Hey Siri” about 5 different devices fire up before the one I want to control 🤷♂

In a perfect world, we’d be able to name each device. But if we didn’t say “Siri” it would completely devalue the service.

Because functionally, there’s really no difference between Siri, Alexa, Google, and others. They all play music, set alarms, etc.

Pretty amazing that voice control is essentially a commodity holding onto only one word (its name) to survive.