Siri for Mac’s Colorful Waveform Dock Icon Revealed Ahead of OS X 10.12 Unveiling

[MacDarcy]

Apple should really change the name of SIRI to "Hey Apple"

 

[jmgregory1]

Touchscreen is the need of the hour for macbook pro's

Apple will not do touchscreen on MB's / rMBP / iMac or MP, because it is not a productive or efficient thing to move your hands from the flat horizontal plane in front of you to the vertical plane that forces you to try to either hold your arm and hand still, applying pressure to a screen (but not too much so as to cause the screen to move back) to do things that you can pretty much more quickly do using the trackpad, but perhaps a bigger Force Touch Trackpad and more multi-touch capabilities would be nice.

Frankly, I think the next shift, which I have been expecting for years now, is that the keyboard and trackpad on laptops will get replaced with a touch screen that can be both a keyboard and trackpad at the same time. Force Touch proved out that we can think we're feeling movement when we're not, so moving this to a full keyboard-less scenario will be the logical next step.

And making it dual screened would also be perfect for Pencil use, where a designer could be drawing on the flat horizontal screen, and inputing using keys on the same plane, while looking at what is happening on the vertical screen in front of them.

Could also be turned on it's end, and become a two screen set-up when using a separate keyboard and trackpad (which could be yet another screen or maybe even an iPad that converts into keyboard / trackpad).

How's that for creative thinking?

 

[Santabean2000]

Nice 'controlled leak' just coincidentally st the same time as IO...

 

[DTphonehome]

why would he be in a grave if he was alive?

That's why he'd be screaming.

 

[dugbee]

..."And that's Siri on macOS. We want to thank everybody for joining us! Have a great week!"

 

[Schwyz]

I swear Apple could announce a zero bezel phone with 5 day battery life and people here would complain about it.

Nay, Apple needs all the “complaints” and critiques we can provide them ATM.

 

[duffman9000]

Work on Siri has been perpetually incomplete for years. Hey about a more descriptive term: it sucks compared to every other modern assistant.

 

[Jess13]

Apple

*last year*

“We’re going to give you awesome Dark Mode, in El Cap!”

(gives us dark menu bar and dock)

*this year*

“We’re going to give you a completely overhauled iTunes!”

(slight revert back to earlier iTunes)

 

[MRrainer]

I want Siri on the desktop as much as I want a root-canal.
My Mac Mini doesn't even have a microphone - which is why I wouldn't be surprised if they'd let the Mini die altogether rather sooner than later. Or keep it alongside the other Macs like they keep the non-Retina MacBookPro, in the way you make a badly behaving child stand in the corner of the classroom.

 

[PR.]

What's the betting Siri won't be available on every device capable of running OSX 10.12. They'll be some "Oh the microphone on older Macs isn't sensitive enough, buy a new one!" reasoning.

 

[179202]

Apple will not do touchscreen on MB's / rMBP / iMac or MP, because it is not a productive or efficient thing to move your hands from the flat horizontal plane in front of you to the vertical plane that forces you to try to either hold your arm and hand still, applying pressure to a screen (but not too much so as to cause the screen to move back) to do things that you can pretty much more quickly do using the trackpad, but perhaps a bigger Force Touch Trackpad and more multi-touch capabilities would be nice.

Frankly, I think the next shift, which I have been expecting for years now, is that the keyboard and trackpad on laptops will get replaced with a touch screen that can be both a keyboard and trackpad at the same time. Force Touch proved out that we can think we're feeling movement when we're not, so moving this to a full keyboard-less scenario will be the logical next step.

And making it dual screened would also be perfect for Pencil use, where a designer could be drawing on the flat horizontal screen, and inputing using keys on the same plane, while looking at what is happening on the vertical screen in front of them.

Could also be turned on it's end, and become a two screen set-up when using a separate keyboard and trackpad (which could be yet another screen or maybe even an iPad that converts into keyboard / trackpad).

How's that for creative thinking?

I used to think that too. But I see people going to touch displays all day. I've never come across a computer monitor that doesn't have nay fingerprints. People are used to touching displays already. Hell, my 4 year old niece touches my TV screen every time she visits. I wish Apple would make a touch screen mac, even if it's just to prove a point. I'm confident they'd be wrong.

 

[MRrainer]

I don't get why I can say "Hey Siri, turn on Wifi" (or Bluetooth), but she freaks out when I say "Hey Siri, turn on Hotspot." She even acknowledges that "I can't do that, but you can do it in Settings." (With a button to link you to settings)

Even just now, my screen was awake and I said, "Hey Siri, lock my phone." She replied with "Surprisingly, that is not within my capabilities."

You also can't have her turn on the flashlight. I tried to google it, but google thought it was far more likely I was looking for a "fleshlight", which was even more surprising...

 

[poematik13]

I wish they'd ditch the rapid yearly OS X feature overhauls and just focus on fixing all the damn bugs. Siri is such a gimmick.

 

[jscooper22]

Great. People shouting at their computers "NO .. Send. A. Message. To. MY. WIFE!!" Gonna make the whole open office space thing a blast.

 

[allanfries]

Oh yay! More gimmicks that won't work properly.

 

[redheeler]

@MacRumors can you start preparing to hide some of these actual leaks. WWDC is approaching and I dont want to see these spoilers 3 weeks before the event.

Then simply avoid looking at MacRumors for the next three weeks. No one is forcing you to look at these leaks if you'd rather it be a surprise.

You want to add ANOTHER icon to my menu bar? This one is a monster sized one so where does it end? Why isn't Siri included in the magnifying glass functionality?

I'm sure you'll be able to remove it, as I probably will. I don't see Siri as a necessity on iOS, and definitely not on Mac OS X.

 

[Porco]

As is increasingly the case with new OS X features, my first reaction is "That's nice for people who want it. Now how do I turn it off?"

 

[Defthand]

Unfortunately, four and a half years after its introduction, Siri will also presumably not be able to answer many of the same queries or perform many of the same tasks on the Mac that it still can't do on iOS devices...

I agree but hope we’re both wrong. Unless Apple has been secretly improving Siri’s abilities and reliability, putting it on the Mac desktop will be a worthless and equally frustrating experience.

 

[Cayden]

I feel like this could be helpful, but only if it works correctly. The speech to text on my rMBP is great. I use it to write out notes and other things. This could be awesome if I could just say "Hey Siri, open up Notes" and then start dictating the note without ever touching the computer

 

[Defthand]

I don't get why I can say "Hey Siri, turn on Wifi" (or Bluetooth), but she freaks out when I say "Hey Siri, turn on Hotspot." She even acknowledges that "I can't do that, but you can do it in Settings." (With a button to link you to settings)

Even just now, my screen was awake and I said, "Hey Siri, lock my phone." She replied with "Surprisingly, that is not within my capabilities."

Siri is artificial intelligence but not in the same sense that the word is used in current conversations. Artificial can mean ‘man made’ or ‘synthetic’. In the case of Siri, artificial means ‘fake’. Siri is mostly canned responses and a laundry list of actions. It’s inflexible and dumb as a corpse.

 

[TrenttonY]

This is so wrong. Just like Spotlight, an icon should be preset in the menu bar, when clicked, a Spotlight-like UI should appear in the center of the screen, where you can ask your inquires. I don't consider something like this to have an app icon for the dock.

 

[vault]

What's the betting Siri won't be available on every device capable of running OSX 10.12. They'll be some "Oh the microphone on older Macs isn't sensitive enough, buy a new one!" reasoning.

I'd say it's a given that wake from sleep with "Hey Siri" will require at least Skylake CPU (because that's where the feature was integrated at the hardware level). Other than that, it probably won't work with third party microphones, because... reasons.


Siri is not even available in my language, so, meh.

 

[S G]

On one hand, I like that OS X is learning from iOS, because there are so many things that could be better implemented on a mac for multilingual users: better autocorrection which is dreadful right now on a mac if typing in more than one language; text-to-speech automatically reading in the correct language without need to switch voices; easy dictation by language. Unfortunately, I have the bad feeling that all these better implemented tools from iOS will be ignored, and that we'll be stuck with the limited use of Siri in the system language...

 

[Mr. Dee]

I can't wait to try it out, should setup my partition from now.

 

[cult hero]

Maybe it's because I know my way around my machine, but I can't see using Siri on my laptop taking the place of... anything. I type fast and Spotlight works really well.

I can see my dad using this? Maybe. I have Cortana on my Windows machine and I don't think I've ever used it with voice.