Enlarge / The types of apps that can take advantage of the newly opened Siri. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Siri is opening up. Kind of.
Apple's "intelligent personal assistant" came before Google Now and Cortana and Alexa, but all of those assistants have caught up to and lapped Siri in one important way: they let third-party applications and services use them to do stuff. As it stands today, Siri can be used to launch third-party apps, but it isn't able to do anything else.
That will change in iOS 10, which is extending Siri to third-party developers via "SiriKit." Developers can't quite do everything that Apple can do—even when letting developers in, Apple still holds them at arm's length with clearly defined extension points and rules—but the company is making it possible to do more stuff without actually launching an app and digging around. Based on the developer documentation that Apple has published so far, here are the kinds of things that third-party apps are going to be able to do with Siri in iOS 10 and what developers have to do behind the scenes to make it work.
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