you could already have Apple's Amazon Echo competitor

closing week's unveiling of Google home, a smart tool that embeds an artificial intelligence interior of a speaker, has left many thinking whilst Apple will announce an Amazon Echo clone of its very own.

well, if one supply close to VentureBeat is proper, that tool is already inside the houses of hundreds of lots of people already.

"They want Apple television to be just the hub of everything," the supply told VentureBeat. They being the executives at the aforementioned Cupertino enterprise.

What the supply is unclear about, however, is whether or not the Apple television in question, the one which could solution inquiries, map out your every day schedule and play music on command, is new hardware or an update that is coming to the present streaming device.

while we had been looking ahead to some sort of smart domestic tool to be shown off at the company's upcoming WWDC 2016 keynote, integrating Siri into Apple tv is a flow that makes sense.

Apple has brought several software updates to tvOS over the last few months, lots of that have greatly extended Siri's functionality allowing her to go looking the App keep alongside the movie and television storefronts.

Admittedly, Apple might be higher off developing a stand-alone device, just like the Echo and home. glaringly, the microphone in the remote could permit customers to call upon Siri whilst they're conserving it, but this is a much extra restrained capability than the Echo and home which can be voice-activated from everywhere inside the room.

A successor to the Apple television appears a chunk … preemptive, because the ultra-modern hardware new release doesn't feel everywhere close to complete but. also, at the same time as Apple's phones is probably at the annual release agenda, the Apple tv has historically had to wait  or three years between iterations.

nonetheless, perhaps that is what Apple had deliberate all along. by integrating a microphone into the faraway, Apple has given itself a wealth of capability new features that could come through software updates.