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Hot on the heals of Google Home, could Apple be expanding Siri’s reach?

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With Apple owning the powerful combination of Siri, Apple TV, and HomeKit, creating some sort of AI-based home assistant that works like Google Home or Amazon Alexa would seem like a natural progression of the company’s product base.

As WWDC approaches this June, rumours are circulating that Apple is about to release something along these lines. Here we’ve tried to imagine what that device could look like, and what it will be able to do. Apple could well be making an announcement as you read these pages, but expect the actual release to be more like Christmas time for Apple’s Siri-powered home helper. See what Matthew Bolton thinks about the idea on page 18.