Siri is the voice assistant that Apple has integrated into iOS and soon also in the company's operating system for computers. So far, Google's rival for Siri was Google Now, although this was notably different, more based on voice commands than anything else. The future, now, would be Google Assistant, which also begins to prepare for an imminent launch. It already seems to be present in the latest version of the Google search engine for Android.
Google App 6.2
This is version 6.2 of the Google search application for Android. This application already has direct references to Google Assistant, which means that the new assistant could already be launched imminently. Probably the appearance of these references in the application has to do with tests that Google is carrying out internally, or even with the aim of communicating to the public that this new service was going to be launched. Be that as it may, Google Assistant is already falling.
Can Google Assistant compete with Siri?
What remains to be seen is whether an assistant like Google Assistant will be able to compete with Siri. And we're not saying it because Siri is an incredibly useful smart assistant. Actually, we say this because Google Assistant comes a long time after Siri, and Google will have to try a long way to catch up with Apple's assistant. Of course, when it comes to searches, hardly anyone has more experience than Apple.
The key to Google Assistant will be that, as with Google Now, it will have a large amount of information about us, the searches we carry out, the apps we have, and based on that it will be able to offer us the information that we want in the most precise way. Of course, unlike Google Now, which will continue to be an active service, Google Assistant will be an assistant with which we can talk and have a more or less normal conversation, or at least that is what it seems.
It would be integrated into all Google platforms, such as Android TV, Android Wear and of course Android for smartphones and tablets, and we will have to see exactly how the new platform works when it is finally launched.