Apple co-founder says AppleScript could be one way to enhance the assistant

Mar 29, 2013 12:59 GMT  ·  By

Steve Wozniak isn’t shy of calling on Apple to fix this and that. Then again, he hasn’t been on the company’s payroll for decades, but he still loves his (and Steve Jobs’) brainchild. And that’s why he wants Apple to be better.

Speaking at Florida International University's Hearst Lecture Series in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak proposed an interesting way for Apple to improve Siri, the digital assistant that does things just by asking it with your voice.

He mentioned AppleScript, a unique scripting language created by Apple that acts as an inter-application processing system. Getting too geeky for you? Here’s Woz putting it in layman’s terms"

“I do like Siri because it’s sort of a general one that reaches all apps. Some day I want to be able to say the name of an app, like Foursquare, and then say it to Siri […] And now it’s going to use Foursquare’s language from then on. ‘Check me into this restaurant,’ you know, or something.”

But you can just hit the play button above. After all, that’s why you’re here.