Not long ago, Google enhanced their iOS search app by including a voice-enhanced feature. This has caused many users to compare the search results of Siri with Google results, which in the end, has caused users to misunderstand the capabilities of Siri.

Understanding Siri

Apple refers to Siri as a “virtual assistant” with good reason. With it, users can be reminded about upcoming events, appointments  or book tables. This along with searching for reviews of movies and current sports scores makes it an invaluable program.

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Users love Siri on iOS and rely on it as their own personal digital assistant. Not only is it capable of handling simple searches, but it can also be used as an alarm as well as a reminder to buy milk. While Google offers much of the same on Android, these capabilities are unavailable in the iOS search app and were not thought of during the original launch of the app.

Digital Assistance

Digital assistance features allow the user to interact with their computer without the use of a traditional mouse and keyboard. These features intertwine in a way that allows the OS to start the functionality upon request. The assistant changes the request of the user into a system action, but does it in a way that is not only dictation or searching the web.

Dictation, as well as reminders, showed up on the desktop with the use of OS X Mountain Lion. Notes were created in iCloud and various other iOS-motivated features. Although all of the components were present, the voice and action connection were not present, which is why Siri did not arrive at this point.

Connecting OS Features

There is a lot of engineering that goes into connecting the features of an OS with a virtual assistant. It is possible that Apple did not see this as a priority at the time that Mountain Lion was being created, or perhaps, testing was incomplete.

Siri is quick and efficient and users like that it takes less effort to complete tasks. This is the main reason users would like to see it become part of OS X. There should be few enough technological issues that nothing should stand in the way of that happening.