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Is it open to all app developers or just the selected apps they mentioned? Wasn't clear in the demo.

I would assume it is all. But limited to the few example categories of queries the demonstrated.

Interestingly, they did not demonstrate a media query (i.e. Play Metallica on Spotify). If they don't open up for that, it is a pretty significant limitation of the API.

It could be intentional, there's already siri commands for Apple Music.

They are likely to support these, Cortana supported media queries on its release two years ago.

I had web dev on the mind and was really confused about why Siri needed CSS support

It wasn't clear to me either. In the developer extensions slide, I see a reference to "SiriKit" which might mean it's totally open?

It's sort of open.

https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/

Basically, it looks like you can extend Siri in a few different ways, just like extensions last year. I expect that it will open up as time goes on.

The API reference documentation is linked to at the bottom of the page.

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