Siri leads hits and misses list from Apple's event

At the annual developers conference, Apple announced the voice recognition software will have a more "natural" tone. SAN JOSE -- Apple had a chance to pull out its big guns, and really, really beef up personal assistant Siri to take on Amazon Echo and the Google Assistant. It didn't do that Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference. Based on its presentation, and the announcement of a new HomePod speaker which featured amazing sound first and Siri integration second, we'll have to call Apple's feeble attempt at improving Siri the biggest miss of WWDC. Siri, which has taken a backseat in development to the more aggressive moves by Google and Amazon, will have a new voice in the fall that will have inflections, be able to translate some foreign phrases and offer us several options to queries instead of one.