Apple Puts Siri Helper at Center of Growing Home-Tech Empire
- New HomePod speaker brings digital assistant into homes
- Advances in machine learning seen in many product updates
Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses the company’s new HomePod voice-controlled speaker for the home. He speaks with Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology” from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Apple Inc.’s first major new product for two years, the HomePod speaker, marks the biggest effort yet from the technology company to use its Siri digital assistant to keep customers wedded to a growing palette of products and services.
The smart speaker works by talking to an updated Siri that better understands music-related requests, Apple said during its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California.