Technically Speaking: Amazon’s Alexa is coming to iPhones

When Amazon announced it was putting its virtual assistant Alexa into Apple iPhones, we knew just where to go for a reaction. “Siri,” we asked our iPhone, “are you upset that Amazon’s Alexa is in the iPhone now?” Turns out, Apple’s Siri is fine with sharing smartphone turf with her rival artificial intelligence bot. While Siri is accessible in an iPhone via a button or on newer phones by voice command, Alexa lives in the Amazon app. Users with the app and an Amazon account just hit a microphone icon on the app screen to call up Alexa. Rollout started Thursday and was expected to be completed this week. Ethan Baron, Bay Area News Group