Summary

Siri’s creators knew that people would try to ask the intelligent assistant a lot of silly questions to see if they could stump it. Rather than have Siri respond with a rote answer of “I don’t understand,” they did an amazing job of anticipating some of the questions people would ask and crafted humorous and heartfelt responses.

It’s that attention to detail that is a hallmark of Apple products, and why Siri has become so popular in the media. Other voice-control and device-navigation systems are available, but none are as seemingly human as Siri. Hopefully, you’ve stopped laughing enough to take away the following key points from this chapter:

• While tweeting and blogging aren’t yet directly supported by Siri, workarounds let you use text messaging services and email to send your statements to the world.