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addabox
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2017-12-30, 16:50

I'm not sure how much of that is a Siri thing or a smart speaker thing. Certainly when Apple gets around to launching HomePod, volume control will be part of the mix, and already any iOS device has HomeKit which allows full control of any devices that are compatible (lighting, thermostat, etc). Would you say that Echo does a better job of parsing random requests for info, or handling non-standard commands? If so, that may be an artificat of Apple's choice not be as data-collection focused as Amazon and Google and do more on-device AI stuff. It's a trade-off, I guess, where you're less likely to get reversed engineered by a large commerce company but the device in your home listening to your every utterance isn't necessarily as good at reading your mind.

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