Fixed it for you.
No I'm pretty sure he meant "Off Course..."
Apple > Android
Star Wars > Star Trek
Not really lol I'm typing this on my Macbook Pro, while texting on my Virgin Mobile Optimus V Android lol Competition is good!
Fixed it for you.
And every Android fan who said Siri was just a gimmick will think this is the greatest thing in the world.
i find it interesting that Android has something Siri like for years and Apple replicates it and adds a few upgrades and it is now a miraculous invention LOL
The old west had horses and buggies for years then Henry Ford replicated it and added a few upgrades called it a car and it was a miraculous invention.
Do you see how ridiculous your statement is in hindsight? You must give credit where it is due. Allow Google and Apple to battle it out in fierce competition. You and I can sit back as consumers and reap the benefits of their labor. But, please, wether its Apple, Google or Microsoft.....don't trivialize great advancements.
Aren't Android's voice input capabilities already capable of a majority of what Siri does?
You are kidding, right? I love Siri. I thought it was a 'gimmick' first, but after she went offline for 3 days for me, I realized how much I use it.Ps. I love my iPhone, and I think Siri is a pretty much a gimmick (haven't played with it a lot tho), but it's a push in the right direction towards a 'real' AI (sort of how google describes it). Baby Steps right?
You still ave to reach your dirty hands into your pocket and touch your phone to activate Siri.I believe it's such a gimmick too. I mean, when I'm doing yardwork & I receive a text, it's so gimmicky to ask Siri to read me my text as opposed to reaching in my pocket with my dirty hands & possibly damage my iPhone.
/sarcasm
It does have gimmicky aspects but at the end of the day, it's a powerful feature.
And every Android fan who said Siri was just a gimmick will think this is the greatest thing in the world.
I honestly think that anyone who believes Siri is just a gimmick, simply hasn't spent any time using it. I love it and think it's great. It's like saying texting is just a gimmick. I was a fan of Siri before it became fully integrated and was just an App (that I could use on my iPhone 4)
I thought Android phones had something better to Siri for a long time...
Upranking / downranking is for those unable to convey opinions effectively, so I'll take the time to say "well played, sir!"
Let's sit back and watch the fanboys - for with a MBP, iPad 2, SGS2 and the rare ability to make my own decisions, I consider myself unbiased - conveniently forget that the Android OS has had voice integration for a long time now, and that its evolution was always going to happen, regardless of Siri.
The pulldown notifications is an interesting point; I can only imagine the furore should that have been the other way around.
Still strange that people get so worked about phones, though. Perhaps if I'd less to worry about.
What I'd like to know is what Google's plans are to monetize on this.
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TOS had talking computers and Majel was a few of them as well.They're talking about Star Trek: The Next Generation, where the computer was as much a character as anybody else in the show. You could command it to do things, and have conversations with it. One episode in particular I remember was "Remember Me" where Dr. Crusher thinks that everyone else on board the ship is slowly disappearing one by one, until finally she's all alone with nobody but the computer to talk to.
It was voiced by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. Of course this carried through to the other series too, like DS9 and Voyager.
There was no talking computer in TOS at all?
TOS had talking computers and Majel was a few of them as well.
Siri is a service to sell hardware. I would rather just pay for better hardware. There is nothing stopping anyone from just making a platform agnostic service and selling a subscription to it.
I am concerned what Google knows about me but they provide services that are based inside my browser. As I have said before, "if my toaster has a decent web browser, I will be using my toaster".
You still ave to reach your dirty hands into your pocket and touch your phone to activate Siri.
Yes, it's a gimmick.
Powerful... hardly. Useful... I'll give you that.
Annoying is more like it.
Bad enough people talk loud when they're on the phone in public, now you have morons barking orders to their phone (repeatedly in many cases) when pushing a few buttons will do the same thing without annoying everyone around you.
How would that knowledge benefit Apple?Why aren't you concerned about what Apple knows about you then, and just Google?
Yeah, about as original as the notification pull down in iOS 5