My thoughts exactly. I could speculate that their intent was to keep seasoned "macOS" users and novices alike 'in the loop' and perhaps we will see this convergence in a future release. Overall a pretty underwhelming upgrade.
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See What It's Like Using Siri on a Mac in macOS Sierra
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My thoughts exactly. I could speculate that their intent was to keep seasoned "macOS" users and novices alike 'in the loop' and perhaps we will see this convergence in a future release. Overall a pretty underwhelming upgrade.
Having to go to Security in Preferences EVERY SINGLE TIME to open an App that hasn't paid Apple to be a developer sounds like a royal fracking PITA. I can see someone could make some serious $$$ if they could automate that somehow (i.e. why the hell doesn't Apple just ask you right then when you try to open it or at least offer a top menu option or something. Having to dig through preferences is ridiculous.)
Oh crap, sorry all I didn't realise apple was running statistics. I will switch Siri off now, must be my Siri addition
I'm sure I'm part of the billion siri requests, but the only thing i ever used siri for was "set a timer for...". The rest of it, IN MY OPINION, is completely worthless and takes more time talking to her, getting her to understand than just opening up an app and doing it manually.
I was responding to the other insightful post - where the person said "no one" is using Siri. You may think 4.3 billion is low, but wouldn't you agree that a few billion a month is at least more than "no one" (using Siri)?
With macOS Sierra, the latest version of the Mac operating system, Siri is available on Macs for the first time. Siri on the Mac can perform many of the same functions available on iOS, like answering simple queries, looking up information, sending messages, opening apps, and more, plus there are Mac-specific functions.
As can be seen in our hands-on video showing off Siri on the Mac, Siri is able to search through files to help you quickly locate content with commands like "Find me the documents I opened last week" or "Where are the files John sent me on Tuesday?"
Siri is accessed through the menu bar, a dock icon, or a keyboard command, and the Siri results, displayed in individual windows, can be pinned to the Today section of the Notification Center or added to documents and files.Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.
Pinned results are kept updated, so it's a great way to keep tabs on a sports game or a particular Twitter search right in the Notification Center, and it can be used to do things like insert a map into an email invitation or search for an image to add to a document.
macOS Sierra and Siri for Mac are are only available to developers right now, but Apple plans to offer a public beta in July. The operating system will be released for free to all Mac users in the fall.
In case you missed them, make sure to check out our seven minute WWDC 2016 video, which features a quick rundown on all of the new iOS, macOS Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS features Apple introduced this week, our video highlighting iOS 10's overhauled Lock screen, a video on the new features in the Photos app, and our video covering the iOS 10 features coming to Messages.
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Article Link: See What It's Like Using Siri on a Mac in macOS Sierra
"Hey Siri" for macOS Sierra workaround is now widely known. It uses the Mac's dictation ability in Accessibility. Just Google Hey Siri for macOS Sierra.
Umm. Shoulda posted that in one of the Sierra threads that aren't specifically talking about Siri, not Sierra in general.
If you want the same behaviour, just go to terminal and type this:
sudo spctl --master-disable
Done.
[doublepost=1470746783][/doublepost]I expected, at the very least, we'd get the same level of iTunes integration as what they have on Apple TV, but Nooooooo.
(insert a waft of expletives here).
I converted my library of movies from .mkv's to .m4v's specifically for this (yes, I was going to shelve Kodi and put everything in iTunes and use Siri to play everything). I figured the metadata is there in the files, I should be able to do things like "Siri, show me all of my chick flicks".
Nope.
At least now everything will play on my mobile devices without using 3rd party players *sigh*.
SO very disappointed.
I believe you can right click and select Open and that bypasses that check (or at least allows you to open it even if it normally wouldn't), and basically stays that way for that app from that point on.