The iPhone digital assistant can set alarms, set up reservations, look up words, and apparently sing to you in a lovely robotic voice.
For more than two years, the iPhone’s silence was deafening. It was popular, it was flying off the shelves, but it was lacking something, a little personality, if you will. Then, in early 2010, Siri came along.
It’s easy to forget that Siri started off as a personal assistant app run by a startup of the same name. Apple would eventually acquire the company in 2011 and make Siri one with the iPhone operating system. (By the way, did you know why your phone sounds female?) But along the way, Siri would remain the same in many ways, an eternally witty disembodied individual.
You can make this discovery yourself by simply saying the lyric “I see a little silhouette of a man” from Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, to Siri.
Can you blame Siri? It’s a hard song not to sing along to!
You can take a tour of the International Space Station with your phone, and now this? Is there anything technology can’t do?