Awesome! A feature in gurnateed NOT to use
And yet, one from which you could so obviously benefit.
Awesome! A feature in gurnateed NOT to use
I like how they still have to refer to a hard drive as a "C Disk:" so the non-apple-fan 60 year old patent examiner will understand what it is
And yet, one from which you could so obviously benefit.
Why don't we save some development energy and just make siri default to a google search, no matter what you say. Here's some pseudocode:
- Get Human's statement
- Print "Hmm... let me think about that..."
- Sleep 5
- Goto "google.com"
They had to save SOMETHING for 10.11...
It's your favorite virtual assistant!
The patten says touch screen? Are we talking Mac or iPad?
If Mac, that will be a change in direction...
VERY interesting....
That might not be too far fetched. Note that the patent illustration also somehow brings the C: Drive to OS X. Wow.
Virtual assistants on your PC will be the next big thing. Imagine if your computer could accurately parse human speech to get you what you want. All of those tedious computer tasks would be a quick, spoken, sentence away.
Siri, find the email from my boss sent last week that had a PDF attached and referenced 'third quarter.'
or
Okay Google. Show me all excel files opened within the past week that have been modified within the past two weeks.
or
Siri, take a screenshot of the current window and save it as a .png file on the desktop
Virtual assistants on your PC will be the next big thing. Imagine if your computer could accurately parse human speech to get you what you want. All of those tedious computer tasks would be a quick, spoken, sentence away.
Siri, find the email from my boss sent last week that had a PDF attached and referenced 'third quarter.'
or
Okay Google. Show me all excel files opened within the past week that have been modified within the past two weeks.
or
Siri, take a screenshot of the current window and save it as a .png file on the desktop
The patent itself is likely not going to stick. Reading the description they've provided, this functionality is not new, nor unique to just one company.
Likelihood this patent application will (and should be) rejected.
However, what it hopefully shows, is that Apple is working towards this sort of functionality in OSx.
However, Apple has been known to apply for patents on many things, that have never made it to products.
I hope if they do manage to do a personal assistant, it will be less intrusively annoying than Clippy.
Agreed. And yeah it better be an opt in thing amd not some annoying notification that keeps popping up while you're doing work lol
I see you've written me a reply: Would you like help with that?