Today, smartwatches play an important part in life. They show us notifications, who's calling, and anything they can. But, today we have a big problem with iOS.

Two popular companies, Pebble Technology Corp and Google, have both their Android Wear lineup and Pebble Time series smartwatches. Both are compatible with both Android and iOS, but Android is a little bit better on one thing that iOS doesn't have: voice reply. If you get a messaging notification from your Android phone, you can instantly reply with your voice and it sends it through the phone. On iOS? Well, Android Wear opens the Messages app, and Pebble sends it through any compatible carrier. Pebble had said, through their blog, for users to encourage Apple to develop a universal iOS Messages API to solve this. (https://blog.getpebble.com/2016/05/10/fw3-12/#more-862 I believe now's the time for this.

Speech recognition has gotten better, with Siri scoring an overall score of 82%, Google Now scoring 68%, and Microsoft Cortana with 60%, across languages. (http://www.techtimes.com/articles/104970/20151110/siri-beats-google-now-and-cortana-in-user-satisfaction-and-accuracy-study.htm) Best of all, it can be used for dictation. Even an article from Slate was dictated from a phone, by senior technology writer Will Ormeus! (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/04/the_end_of_typing_speech_recognition_technology_is_getting_better_and_better.html With concerns about Siri not understanding sexual assault commands ('My husband is abusing me' 'Siri, I'm being raped') out of the way with a new update from Apple revolving around this (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/31/health/siri-apple-rape-response/ ), it's time to solve a problem with cross-software functionality.

Imagine you have a Pebble or an Android watch, and you're in an important meeting. Now say that your friend is texting you, but you can't reply. Even though Pebble can do this (through carriers), I think it is insufficient. Now, let's say the Messages API exists. All you can do is basically send the message within seconds, instead of having to go through the carrier or open your phone. The reason I care - about this - is because no one should have to go through such a problem. The purpose of iOS within the lifeblood of the iPhone is to provide a sophisticated, yet unique experience. iMessage is unique, the pairing system for the Apple Watch is unique, and it is a thoughtful in Apple's way, with improvements and new features added. Plus, next to the accessibility options for the impaired, the API could help by dictating instead of typing. That is one of the main reasons for the Dragon Speech Recognition software, to help the disabled speak.(http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-solution/accessibility/index.htm

Android is open-source, and Google did it, regardless of closed source parts of software. One of Apple's main goals is to provide functionality, and through this, it can solve one of today's problems that Android has solved years before. Apple, through many things, helped create one of the first all-in-one computers, the first smartphone, and a unique digital distribution store for music, apps, movies and more. If you can make Siri respond to sexual assault commands, this can happen. With this, we can be one step from making a smartwatch a tool rather than a fashion piece. Let's all make a pitch-in and help now.