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It also refers to various "smart" suggestions that have nothing to do with the voice assistant: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-siri-suggestions...

Nowadays Apple would brand such features as "Apple Intelligence", but since they already existed long before, they are "Siri".

Though I agree that it's not quite as badly ubiquitous as Copilot.

These are all non talky talky: Siri Suggestions, Siri Knowledge (Safari / Spotlight Intelligence), Siri Shortcuts (Automation, not voice), Siri Intelligence (On-device ML features), Siri Widget/Watch face… you get the idea. There was a time when “Siri” was the catch all for Smart/ML.

> (if they were even more like MS, iMessage would be "Siri 365 Communication Suite")

Siri 365 Communication Suite .NET Enterprise Edition With Copilot

Thanks for the stroke. Where do I send the hospital bill?

In Microsoft's case it refers to an LLM system with some features integrated.