February 2023
Beginner
320 pages
7h 50m
English
Content preview from Apple Watch For Seniors For Dummies, 2023-2024 Edition
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Chapter 8
Meeting Siri
IN THIS CHAPTER
Learn what Siri is
Set up Siri
Understand what Siri can do
Try out useful tasks and commands
I’m a Star Trek fan from way back. Whether you duped it out from earlier comments I made in this book or another, or whether you’re hearing this from me for the first time, it’s a fact that I’m more of a “Space, the final frontier” kind of guy than a “Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” person. I certainly have enjoyed both sci-fi properties over the years, but the theremin from the original Star Trek theme still sings to me, if you will.
I remember watching Spock and Scotty talk to the computer, which spoke back — intelligently, no less! — carrying out their commands immediately and accurately. And the fact that I can now do something similar by talking to my watch or my phone is a bit trippy, in the best sense possible. Apple’s introduction of Siri into their technological ecosystem about a decade ago is another of those marvels Trek is famous for having predicted, along with tablet computers (iPads, anyone?), universal translators (Apple’s Translate ...
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