Bill Atkinson: Why Apple's AirPods are the best place for Siri – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

"AirPods--in their current form and in future revs--seemed aimed at putting Siri's gentle voice, and her growing personal assistant capabilities, in your ear. And your ear canal may be the very best part of the body to put such a thing," Sullivan reports. "Veteran Apple engineer Bill Atkinson -- known for being a key designer of early Apple UIs and the inventor of MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard--saw this coming a long time ago. He gave a presentation at MacWorld Expo back in 2011 in which he explains exactly why the ear is the best place for Siri." "Atkinson points to Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series from the 1980s, in which an artificial sentience called'Jane' lives in a crystal planted in the ear of the main character, Ender," Sullivan reports.