HomePod: The reason Apple needed a Siri movie featuring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 25 Jul 2017

Apple Inc. HomePod speakers are displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S., on Monday, June 5, 2017. The conference aims to inspire developers from around the world to turn their passions into the next great innovations and apps that customers use every day across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Mac. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Voice assistants in smartphones, with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) behind them, are big these days. Everyone seems to want to use them, and we all get very excited whenever something new is added to the voice-based virtual assistants in our phones. 

However, it has remained a challenge for Apple (as for the rest) to make people comfortable with the idea of communicating with a virtual being. The voice assistant on your iPhone, which has been around since the iPhone 4S, is finally starring in a movie called The Rock x Siri: Dominate the Day

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