It doesn't seem to matter how many countries their war chest could buy, they just don't want to invest in anything that doesn't bring in hard cash seconds later. For their services they just hook up with any 3rd party crap they can find. Yahoo weather, Yelp, TomTom, Gracenote... this from a company worth more than Microsoft and Google combined.
You expected a third party app to be fully integrated with the system?I downloaded it, installed it and said 'Send a text to my wife I'll be home soon" and it tried to search the internet for it. I deleted it.
Clearly you people don't fully understand what Siri does if you think this is a competitor.
It still isn't conversational like Siri. With Siri, you can say "what is the weather here", and then "and how about New York", and it remembers the context. Google Now still requires distinct commands.
I'm guessing Apple will be able to solve their speed problems more quickly than Google can add AI, but we'll see. Good to have some competition to push the tech forward.
It works well but it isn't a Siri competitor. There is some overlap, but Siri does some things Google search does not.
Perhaps you should learn to speak a bit more succinctly. A little diction goes a long way. Typically, Siri has no problem following my commands first time out.Better question is how many of those things does Siri actually do well, the first time you say it? Answer is 0.
It works well but it isn't a Siri competitor. There is some overlap, but Siri does some things Google search does not.
Yes, exact same problem.Having read the comments here I went to the app store
to download Google Search and all I get is a blank white screen.
On both my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 ANYONE else having this
problem.
The speed in recognizing your speech as you speak it is impressive but the way it does it hinders the results.
It uses commonly searched terms to complete your request as you're still talking but because of this, it will ignore what you actually said in favor of a similarly sounding term.
Try this:
Speak: "Show me pictures of iPad mini"
Result: it searches for pictures of iPod mini.
I've tested this with multiple people with me here now and it always replaces iPad mini with iPod mini.
iPad and iPod may be one letter away from being the same word but they sound very different. No matter now much you stress the A in iPAAAD it will change it to iPod.
Nonetheless, Apple now has a target to beat. Instant speech recognition results is how SIRI should always have been.
Which is a bloody shame BTW...