We return with the good of Mark Gurman, and it is that when he speaks the bread rises and the odd device appears with the silk-screened apple, how could it be otherwise. On this occasion, and within the commotion caused by the Amazon Echo Show (a virtual assistant with a screen, as Phill Schiller likes) it is necessary to speak precisely of the virtual assistant of the Cupertino company. Apparently, Apple employees have spent months testing in their own homes what would be the Siri of the home, a virtual assistant focused on managing HomeKit, what the lovers of the demotic had been dreaming for months.
We are going to give you the first news about Apple's virtual home assistant, it will not be cheap at all, because Apple does not do anything cheap, not because we handle inside information. Beyond the jokes the Cupertino company has been flirting with this idea for a few weeks, especially after Phill Schiller, Apple's Vice President of Marketing, dropped that a virtual home assistant should have a screen.
Apple employees have been testing a device at home for several months, according to people familiar with the environment. When VP of Marketing Phil Schiller recently discussed the benefits of having a display on a voice-activated device, it was unclear if he meant that the device would have one.
Does this mean that Apple's virtual assistant would be based on iOS? What is obvious is that if you are going to have a screen, you are going to need a user interface, although perhaps they could take advantage of the CarPlay version and adapt it to a home automation environment. These are all assumptions, but we're glad Apple can introduce During the WWDC of this 2017 a home assistant, whose main asset would be the integration with Apple Music, according to Mark Gurman (Bloomberg). Siri Home would be the perfect name for this type of product.