That will change when Apple starts getting real competition from other smartphone makers, or the blind start calling/writing the access people and requesting features such as what you want. If that doesn't do it, then Apple just has certain established attitudes toward their product and feels no reason to change them. One of those, the failure of Siri to open shazam or Google seems to me to be based on Apple's making a competitive product and not wanting it's operating system to give a leg up to a product not Apple's own.
----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:19 PM Subject: RE: WWDC event, was it yesterday? Hi Jonathan, Well, isn’t that nice of Apple. They make such a big deal of how they are opening up the API’s for all of these iOS features to developers but they conveniently forget to mention that really they don’t. As much as I like my iphone and what Apple is doing in many areas, it is very annoying that they are so backwards in other ways. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 11:34 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: WWDC event, was it yesterday? Hi Sieghard, sad to say, Siri won't be opening your Audible book any time soon. For iOS 10.0, the Siri API will only work with six kinds of application: ride booking, messaging , Photo Search, payments, Calling, and Workouts. So, Siri won't be able to open a book in Voice Dream, Bard, or any other third-party book app. It won't be able to play music for you on Spotify or Pandora. It won't be able to play the most recent episode of a podcast using third-party podcast apps. I have no idea why Apple is so tone deaf to how far it is lagging behind in this space, but what they're coming out with is only going to improve the situation slightly. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 15/06/2016, at 6:59 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: Hi Devin, Yes, some of it sounds very nice, but as others have pointed out, there isn't much that is really groundbreaking. Collaboration in documents is something Microsoft has been offering for years and it is high time Apple opened up their API's to developers especially the one for SIRI. They pointed out that SIRI has been around for 5 years now and if you really think about it SIRI now is not a lot better than it was 5 years ago. Yes, it's a bit faster with dictation and can pull information from a few more sources, but why is it still not possible to say "Call Kevin from Bigrock Sports" just to give an example of one of my contacts where I have at least 3 or 4 Kevins in my contacts who all work for different companies. I can't even create a contact where I just enter a company name in the company name field and a single phone number and say, for example, "Call Bigrock Sports". I have to also put the company name in the last name field to do this. I should be able to say "Show me all my contacts who work at Bigrock Sports" or I should be able to tell SIRI to "Turn Voiceover Hints On or Off", but all of these things SIRI can't do. Another example: I can tell SIRI to "Remind me about my dentist appointment on Friday at 3 PM", but if I say "Remind me about my 3 PM dentist appointment on Friday at 2 PM" it will say it will remind me and when I check what SIRI created I see it created the reminder for 3 PM whereas I want to be reminded at 2 PM that my appointment is at 3 PM. There is a complicated way to say it so it does what I want, but I should be able to say it anyway I like or even in two parts like "Remind me about my dentist appointment at 3 PM on Friday" and when SIRI says it will I should be able to bring it up again and say "Start reminding me once an hour starting at 11 AM and it should understand that I want a reminder at 11 AM, Noon, 1 PM and 2 PM and maybe by its own intelligence SIRI should remind me again 15 minutes before if it detects my iPhone is not moving. This is true artificial intelligence, it already exists, the iPhone has the processing power to do it and so do Apple's servers. I can't say how much I look forward to being finally able to say "Play the Audible book I am currently listening to" or, if I have not started one but have a bunch downloaded I hope I can say "Play Night Ranger in audible" (just one example of a book by Alex Berentson I just finished). Another basic example of something super simple SIRI can't do. Try and ask SIRI to "Start the Stop Watch". SIRI will tell you "Sorry, I can't help you with the stop watch". Huh, really, it can set a timer, an alarm, it can create calendar events and reminders but it can't start the stop watch? Why? Best regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 8:50 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: WWDC event, was it yesterday? Sure, but little things add up to big changes. Siri gets integrated into predictive text, so she can suggest better options there, like I'm at (suggests input of location into the text)" and stuff like that. Siri is open to developers, so apps can allow Siri to use their functionality from anywhere. Apps can do things within iMessage, like allowing sending of money right from messages. Mac gets Siri, tabs in every multi-window app. People can collaborate with notes. Unlock Mac with Apple watch. Just amazing stuff! Sent from my iPhone On Jun 14, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Kelly Pierce <kellyt...@gmail.com> wrote: If you can't stream it, download my MP3 of the event and play it on a stand alone device. Apple announced incremental improvements, not breakthrough technology. Even Facebook with its calling feature in the messages app, a Facetime mimmick, offered something new. Some of Apple's innovations will need to be experieinced to be believed. The photos app will now be able to recognize peple and places. 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