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

[FieldingMellish]

Apple should have reached into the past, when flat icons were required due to limited display and processing power, and gone with System 9's profile of a guy with the speaking balloon.

Just update that with some color and you're done. Instead of that 1960's Flipper™ graphics inspired icon depicted in this article.

 

[satchmo]

So Google announced their Amazon Echo competitor called Google Assistant at I/O today. According to Twitter it sounds a lot like the Viv demo from the former Siri guys. Interesting though that this isn't coming from Tony Fadell and Nest team. Seems to me Nest could easily be folded into Google rather than a separate Alphabet company.

I wonder if Apple will be showing off something similar at WWDC? Just Siri on the Mac without any improvements is pretty meh.

Yeah, I'm less concerned what the dock icon looks like but hope there's going to be significant advances with Siri. Apple does seem to be falling behind in this area. That said, Google does not have a great track record with product releases at I/O.

 

[dypeterc]

Apple has a second chance to get Siri right by buying out Viv and incorporating it system level into iOS, MacOS, and TvOS. Siri's next step is integrating with 3rd party apps and off loading all the work to the 3rd party devs instead of in house

 

[samcraig]

Meaningless icon unless you've already used it and understand what the image is

 

[Rogifan]

Yeah, I'm less concerned what the dock icon looks like but hope there's going to be significant advances with Siri. Apple does seem to be falling behind in this area. That said, Google does not have a great track record with product releases at I/O.

True, but they seem to be getting their you know what together. And how they hired a VP to oversee all their smart home/hardware efforts. Which I find kind of amusing since I thought that's what they purchased Nest for. I wouldn't be surprised if Tony Fadell is gone within a year.

Meaningless icon unless you've already used it and understand what the image is

How many people own a Mac but have never used Siri on an iOS device? I can't imagine that many.

 

[edgonzalez32]

If Steve Jobs was alive he'd be screaming in his grave right now.

You really believed that siri wouldn't come to the Mac? Why wouldn't it? And if you really don't like siri, don't use it.

 

[jdillings]

I'm disappointed this hasn't been posted yet

 

[theelysium]

about damn time, maybe Siri can finally hear me with a studio mic attached to my mac.

 

[TurboPGT!]

There are two things that Mac OS X needs right now-- Siri integration, and a touchscreen for notebooks. Amazingly, Windows has the lead in both of these areas. And that just should not be....

There are MANY that don't consider touch on a notebook to be a positive thing. So, thankfully Apple is no where near it.

 

[Philsy]

Apple should have reached into the past, when flat icons were required due to limited display and processing power, and gone with System 9's profile of a guy with the speaking balloon.

Just update that with some color and you're done. Instead of that 1960's Flipper™ graphics inspired icon depicted in this article.

What a good idea, I'd forgotten about that icon. Just looked on Google and can't find an image of it.

 

[Black Magic]

Shouldn't we have had Siri on Macs a long time ago? Well better late than never. Now we can hear Siri's terrible jokes on our Macs too!

I would prefer TouchID on the Macs personally.

 

[DavidLeblond]

I guess I'll have to just hide the icon and ignore it, seeing as my Mac Mini has no microphone.

 

[dwaltwhit]

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

That would be because it's a joke.

 

[crsh1976]

I guess I'll have to just hide the icon and ignore it, seeing as my Mac Mini has no microphone.

We all know Mac Mini users are not considered real/worthy Mac users, we're just cheap penny-pinchers trying to cheat our way on the cool train without shelling out the full price.

 

[verniesgarden]

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."

I like that even their product knows it's ridiculous that it can't do things. sounds like the devs wanted the function but management told them to hold off so they put the cheeky response in.

 

[rekhyt]

Curious which keyboard button they'll use for invoking Siri.

• Double-tap fn (like how it is for voice dictation)?
• Long-press command (Apple button)?
• Repurposing the caps-lock key just for Siri (Like Chromebook's for search)?

 

[ProjectManager101]

If Steve Jobs was alive he'd be screaming in his grave right now.

He would rather be dead.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Cool but I keep forgetting I have things like Siri and Cortana. I don't even remember to use 3D Touch.

I do wish artificial intelligence a strong future but I think it is best suited to helping policy makers collect data and understand things like environmental data, crimes rates, etc. An AI could do this without the human greed and tribalistic biases.

 

[John Mcgregor]

So they just start working on it now? What did they do whole ****ing year?

 

[bluespark]

We've had Siri since 2011, this is a clear indicator that they're running out of ideas.

If this were the only new feature you might have a point, but my guess is that there will be others.

 

[Eduardo1971]

So pretty!!
Now that's innovation.

 

[shawnforever]

If Steve Jobs was alive he'd be screaming in his grave right now.

If Steve Jobs were alive. You can't even get the grammar right.

 

[Mactendo]

Curious which keyboard button they'll use for invoking Siri.

• Double-tap fn (like how it is for voice dictation)?
• Long-press command (Apple button)?
• Repurposing the caps-lock key just for Siri (Like Chromebook's for search)?

Dancing and clapping around your Mac with the mouse in hand 3 circles to activate, 4 to desactivate.

 

[Doc C]

Or "Let me search the web for 'Safari'". Problem solved though, right?

Unless it pulls up Chrome....

 

[aloshka]

I like that even their product knows it's ridiculous that it can't do things. sounds like the devs wanted the function but management told them to hold off so they put the cheeky response in.

Or very likely it may be a security risk, because I can say really loud "Siri Turn Off Wifi and Lock My Phone" in a restaurant and every single iPhone in the entire room would lock and not have wifi, even if people were using it.