News Summary

• Apple is planning to put Siri at the center of the device operating system and give it a visual personality to make it feel lifelike.
• Apple has tested making Siri look like an animated version of the Finder logo, the iconic smiley face representing the Mac’s file management system.
• It would be a great compromise between the abstract and now dated Siri animation on the one hand, and a photorealistic human face on the other.
• The idea is for the device to act like a person in a room.
• It could interrupt a conversation between friends about dinner plans, say, and suggest nearby restaurants or relevant recipes.