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Even if Apple did open Siri up and provide a "music playing intent" for Siri like they did for messages, it would still be something like "play something by the Rolling Stones using Spotify". Is that much different from "open Spotify" and once Spotify is open "Play something by the Rolling Stones"?
Definitely yes. So, I have an iphone 6s -- and I use Siri a _lot_. Mostly I use it when I'm talking to friends or family... e.g. today someone told me he didn't know any of Dylan's songs... and I went "oh, well let me tell you of some!" Usually when you're talking to someone, and you spend half the time on your device suddenly disconnected from the person you're talking to, that makes things tough. Generally one shou…
1. Activate Siri (hey Siri/button on your car, etc.) 2. Say "play a song by Bob Dylan using Spotify" 3. Spotify would get a message with a parsed command to play.
There is nothing stopping Spotify today from licensing a speech recognition engine and working with voice. You can already launch Spotify using Siri and after that let Spotify do its own voice recognition like Google does on iOS.