Siri is Actively Used on Over Half a Billion Devices, Reveals Apple

After a saga of delays and speculations, Apple tree has confirmed that its highly predictable smart speaker, the HomePod, volition finally hit the market on Feb ix. But that's not the only major proclamation, every bit the voice assistant that powers the smart speaker has too crossed the milestone of agile usage on over 500 million devices.

Apple's official press release addressing the HomePod'southward market arrival broke the impressive achievement of Siri actively profitable users on 500 million plus Apple devices.

Siri, now actively used on over half a billion devices, has developed a deep knowledge of music and understands your preferences and tastes.

Siri is Actively Used on Over Half a Billion Devices, Reveals Apple

Aside from the crude 'half a billion' figure, Apple has not revealed anything regarding the device-wise metrics of Siri's active usage. And it is hard to estimate either fashion, because the virtual assistant is nowadays on nearly all Apple tree devices, some of whose sales figures are not disclosed past the firm.

At the Worldwide Developers Conference in June final year, Apple announced that Siri is actively being used on more than 375 million devices. Taking it into perspective, Siri's agile user base of operations has grown by over 125 1000000 in a span of just around vii months, which is nada short of impressive, and with the HomePod hitting the market, the numbers are expected to grow at a rapid pace.

Siri has been a signature characteristic of Apple device for years, and it wouldn't be wrong to say that Siri gave the biggest push button to the trend of virtual assistants on smartphones, because the fact that it was released back in 2011 while Google's eponymous virtual assistant arrived much later in 2016.

Ahead of the HomePod'southward arrival, Apple has optimized Siri to let the banana accept full advantage of the smart speaker's feverishly-advertised audio chops. Underlining the aforesaid point, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said "The team has worked to give Siri a deeper knowledge of music so that you can ask to play virtually annihilation from your personal favorites to the latest nautical chart-topping releases, merely by saying 'Hey Siri.'"