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Android developers create Siri clone in just 8 hours

96whitels said:
Well my co worker downloaded it on his DROID.

Terrible app (we didn't expect much though).

After everything you say/ask.. it repeats, then processes.

Poor responses, no personality, very computerized voice which is hard to understand. And some of the responses, (such as asking for the weather) seem to go on for a very long time.

Also, got it to freeze fairly quickly.
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Well for 8 hours of work that is really pretty good. You seem to expect it to work well.
 
Patriot24 said:
The statement that most apps don't run in a workable state on most hardware is a problem in and of itself ("fragmentation"). I understand that you can't expect apps to work on outdated hardware, but 2 years is hardly an extraneous period of time. Believe it or not, not all people upgrade their phones every 4 days to coincide with Android handset manufacturers' release schedules.

While I agree that you can't judge an entire ecosystem by a single phone, that still doesn't resolve the poor state of apps in the ecosystem as a whole. Even with the latest and greatest hardware, most of the apps are buggy at best.

All of my friends and many people that I have met use various Android phones/tablets. I have spent substantial time testing models of all sorts. Overall, I have probably had my hands on at least 15 different handsets across all carriers and at least 4 tablets. The same issues plague all of them regardless of recency of hardware release.

If you test an app like Facebook on iOS 5 (4s) and ICS (latest Nexus phone), the user experience and level of finish isn't even close.
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Funny cause facebook on my 4 with iOS5 was locking up, freezing and crashing, on my SGSII worked flawlessly from both the app and the widget.
 
I believe Nuance owns most of the patents Apples Siri's using asit was a joint development. As an owner or their Dragon NaturallySpeaking software I know Siri has a lot of potential. Rumors have been swirling that Google intends To purchase Nuance so I think Apple should beat them to the punch. Since Nuance owns Swype we might even get that too!
 
Siri is different than what Android has. Siri is an assistant while Android's equivalent is not. And they're not going to change that for now.
 
Patriot24 said:
The statement that most apps don't run in a workable state on most hardware is a problem in and of itself ("fragmentation"). I understand that you can't expect apps to work on outdated hardware, but 2 years is hardly an extraneous period of time. Believe it or not, not all people upgrade their phones every 4 days to coincide with Android handset manufacturers' release schedules.

While I agree that you can't judge an entire ecosystem by a single phone, that still doesn't resolve the poor state of apps in the ecosystem as a whole. Even with the latest and greatest hardware, most of the apps are buggy at best.

All of my friends and many people that I have met use various Android phones/tablets. I have spent substantial time testing models of all sorts. Overall, I have probably had my hands on at least 15 different handsets across all carriers and at least 4 tablets. The same issues plague all of them regardless of recency of hardware release.

If you test an app like Facebook on iOS 5 (4s) and ICS (latest Nexus phone), the user experience and level of finish isn't even close.
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I admit that Android has been garbage up until Gingerbread. Unfortunately the general consensus about Android sucking is mostly derived from that pre-Gingerbread period and has stuck ever since.
Now you bring up the Facebook example, I'll bring up the WhatsApp example. Whatsapp on iPhone lets you send general media from camera roll as well as location and contacts. That's it. Whatsapp on Android lets you send all that plus any music file from your library as well as quite literally every single file you have on your phone. Even system files if you want. This functionality difference is seen a lot throughout the Market. Even a simple ringtone installer is impossible on an iPhone, let alone a file manager or a ROM manager.

That kind of unlimited power is why there are some people out there that favor Android. Yeah my Nexus S isn't as shiny as my iPad but it can do so much more it's not even funny. And that's comparing a phone to a supposedly full-blown tablet.
 
mKTank said:
I admit that Android has been garbage up until Gingerbread. Unfortunately the general consensus about Android sucking is mostly derived from that pre-Gingerbread period and has stuck ever since.
Now you bring up the Facebook example, I'll bring up the WhatsApp example. Whatsapp on iPhone lets you send general media from camera roll as well as location and contacts. That's it. Whatsapp on Android lets you send all that plus any music file from your library as well as quite literally every single file you have on your phone. Even system files if you want. This functionality difference is seen a lot throughout the Market. Even a simple ringtone installer is impossible on an iPhone, let alone a file manager or a ROM manager.

That kind of unlimited power is why there are some people out there that favor Android. Yeah my Nexus S isn't as shiny as my iPad but it can do so much more it's not even funny. And that's comparing a phone to a supposedly full-blown tablet.
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The difference is relevant to the tiny percentage of people who want or even know what a "file" is on their smart phone and want to send it to someone else.

Most people, and I'll use that broad term because in this case the majority of people don't fall into this category, don't want to do these things, even if you think they're common or simple.

I'm handy with some light programming, but what I really want is for the phone and apps to work - period.

Also, sending music files has so many legal issues with it, it's not surprising Apple doesn't allow it. In cases like that, the closed system is there for reasons that seem to evade some tech nerds - or just piss them off because they want to do something illegal or devious.
 
Iris is more like a genetically deformed clone of Siri.

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