It will be available for third party apps, but it is going to be restricted at least for now. Here is an excerpt from an article on 9to5 Mac:
For iOS 10.0, the Siri API will only work with six kinds of application: ride booking (think Uber) Messaging Photo Search (find photos and videos in a particular app) Payments (‘Send $100 to John with SquareCash’) VoIP Calling (e.g: Skype) Workouts (for starting health and fitness activities) The experience for users should be great as long as you are wanting to use these types of third-party apps in Siri as Apple handles the complex voice understanding. Users must form questions with nouns like ‘WeChat’ to indicate they want to interact with a third-party app. The SiriKit response API's are flexible enough to allow these apps to reply with custom, rich, UI. Users will be able to complete their task inline to the Siri conversation interface; you don’t have to jump into an app. However, the way this system is structured it leaves a lot of apps shut out, in the cold. Out of the 2 million apps in the App Store, how many fall under the support of the six categories? This is the primary downside of the system Apple devised. Some major classes of application are not covered by the third-party Siri SDK which Siri is often used for: music apps, podcast apps, sport statistics, email, reminders and to-do lists and more. It’s unclear how this will be policed too: could an email app class itself as a text message app to slip into the Siri experience? This seems like a controversial area for App Review come September. In future versions of iOS, it is reasonable to expect Apple to expand the number of app types that can integrate with Siri. iOS 10.1 could easily add a couple new kinds of integration. However, will it expand into certain areas that it wants to dominate with first-party services? An obvious omission from the Siri iOS 10 implementation is third-party integration for media apps like music streaming. With iOS 10, Apple Music will be the only way to play audio via Siri. Apple probably loves this but for users of competing music services, there is no ability for developers to be able to add Siri integration. Apps like Spotify, Pandora and Google Pay Music are left in the cold. Apple could add a new music media type for Siri SDK in future but will they? Will they keep it closed to boost up its own $9.99 streaming service, Apple Music? This is an open question: we will have to wait and see how quickly Apple ramps the Siri SDK and expands the base of possible apps. For the public, Siri SDK launches with iOS 10 in the fall. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rajmund Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Apple Music and Spotify Hello, remember, though, Siri is now going to be opened up for third party apps, so that could well be possible soon enough. Sent from a Braille Sense ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Otten <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 20, 2016 5:38 pm Subject: Re: Apple Music and Spotify > > > True enough. But that is because of apples control. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 20, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > And one thing Spotify does not give you is SIRI control. I love how I can > > simply tell Apple Music on my iPhone or Apple TV what I want to listen to. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Arnold Schmidt > > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 9:25 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Apple Music and Spotify > > > > Being a happy Apple Music subscriber, what will Spotify give me that I > > don't already have? Thanks for any opinions. > > > > Arnold Schmidt > > > > > > On Aug 20, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You can always get premium, which takes away all limitations and ads. I > > wish they would specify all of the differences somewhere in the app. > > Apparently downloading requires premium. And I gather that you can get > > higher quality if you're using premium. But I haven't seen a list of all > > those things.. I wish there was one maybe I'm missing it. > > Mary > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Aug 20, 2016, at 2:11 AM, rajmund <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, on iPad, though, you do get unlimited switching, unlike on phone.... > > > > Sent from my iPhone 5S > > > > On 20 Aug 2016, at 7:31 am, christopher hallsworth > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, Spotify is still more difficult to use on the iPad unfortunately. Yet > > works well on the iPhone and should be the same on the iPod since well the > > iPod is an iPhone without the phone. > > > > On 19 Aug 2016, at 23:29, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Christopher, > > I am curious about your Spotify experience, whether or not you tried it on > > an iPad as well as the phone. Maybe you don't have an iPad, I don't know. I > > recall from a while ago when I had Spotify for a while, then it was much > > more difficult to use on the iPad and the phone. I don't even remember why.. > > Mary > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:50 AM, christopher hallsworth > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > While I am committed to Apple Music as am subscribed to the family plan, > > I'm sorry, but wow! Spotify is now completely accessible from what I can > > see. The interface is also no longer hard to use. Found out today that > > Spotify is RNIB's app of the month so thought to check out the latest > > version and am amazed so far with the usability and accessibility of the > > app. Sure I used Spotify countless times before, and there was always > > something missing with the app. That seems to now be a thing of the past. > > As for membership, the free one will do. 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But that is because of apples control. > Mary > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 20, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And one thing Spotify does not give you is SIRI control. I love how I can > simply tell Apple Music on my iPhone or Apple TV what I want to listen to. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Arnold Schmidt > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 9:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Apple Music and Spotify > > Being a happy Apple Music subscriber, what will Spotify give me that I don't > already have? Thanks for any opinions. > > Arnold Schmidt > > > On Aug 20, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > You can always get premium, which takes away all limitations and ads. I wish > they would specify all of the differences somewhere in the app. Apparently > downloading requires premium. And I gather that you can get higher quality if > you're using premium. But I haven't seen a list of all those things. I wish > there was one maybe I'm missing it. > Mary > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 20, 2016, at 2:11 AM, rajmund <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, on iPad, though, you do get unlimited switching, unlike on phone... > > Sent from my iPhone 5S > > On 20 Aug 2016, at 7:31 am, christopher hallsworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > Yeah, Spotify is still more difficult to use on the iPad unfortunately. Yet > works well on the iPhone and should be the same on the iPod since well the > iPod is an iPhone without the phone. > > > On 19 Aug 2016, at 23:29, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > I am curious about your Spotify experience, whether or not you tried it on an > iPad as well as the phone. Maybe you don't have an iPad, I don't know. I > recall from a while ago when I had Spotify for a while, then it was much more > difficult to use on the iPad and the phone. I don't even remember why. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:50 AM, christopher hallsworth > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > While I am committed to Apple Music as am subscribed to the family plan, I'm > sorry, but wow! Spotify is now completely accessible from what I can see. The > interface is also no longer hard to use.. Found out today that Spotify is > RNIB's app of the month so thought to check out the latest version and am > amazed so far with the usability and accessibility of the app. Sure I used > Spotify countless times before, and there was always something missing with > the app. That seems to now be a thing of the past. As for membership, the > free one will do. 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