Siri’s Debut
From Amazon’s Alexa to Samsung’s Bixby, digital assistants are pretty much everywhere these days. And while Apple’s own digital assistant may be lagging behind its competitors in terms of popularity and features, there’s little doubt that Siri helped to introduce and popularize the concept of the digital assistant to consumers.
Siri was first launched on Apple’s iPhone 4S back in 2011. And, at the time, Siri was really the first and only digital assistant of its kind available on a smartphone. While assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant may have surpassed Siri in some ways, they all have something to owe to their predecessor.