But the strange, and maybe most encouraging part of Sierra is that, for how big of a deal Siri is, it’s hardly the most useful aspect of the new software. Siri's been on the iPhone since 2011, and in the meantime, Microsoft and Google have both introduced voice-controlled artificial intelligence on their own desktop operating systems. It's an exciting addition and something Mac users have been waiting years for.
With today’s release of macOS Sierra, the latest version of Apple’s desktop OS, the Mac is at long last getting the one feature that’s arguably come to define iOS more than any other, the feature that singlehandedly was supposed to alter the way we use our gadgets: Siri. This year, OS X is gone and replacing it is macOS - a new iteration on the same operating system, with a changed but still comfortably familiar name. And now it's even getting iOS's naming format. For the last few years, nearly all of OS X's biggest updates have come in response to iOS.
