Apple prepping Siri SDK and Echo-like home assistant gadget

Apple is preparing an SDK that would allow developers much greater access to Siri -- and the improved assistant will power a stationary hub device like Amazon's Echo. A report from The Information tallies with things we've heard over the last few weeks; expect an announcement, if not the device itself, at WWDC in June. Siri, sad to say, has not aged well. Features that were impressive four or five years ago have lost their luster, and rival services have leapfrogged the famous virtual assistant in countless ways. Siri's creators, of course, moved on years ago to work on something better: Viv, which they announced just weeks ago at Disrupt NY.