Siri was one of Apples Acquisions Not Created By Apple
Siri was not created by apple they bought the rights from the founder company Siri, Inc
Siri, Inc. was founded in 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (VP Engineering), and Tom Gruber (CTO/VP Design), together with Norman Winarsky from SRI International's venture group, and is named after SRI (although Kittlaus claims he wanted to name the daughter he never had "Siri", Norwegian for "beautiful woman who leads you to victory", he cites as primary "the fact that [it] is easy to spell [and] easy to say"
On October 13, 2008, Siri announced it had raised an $8.5 million Series A financing round, led by Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. In November 2009, Siri raised a $15.5 million Series B financing round from the same investors as in their previous round, but led by Hong-Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Dag Kittlaus left his position as CEO of Siri at Apple after the launch of the iPhone 4S.
Apple did not steal anything from anyone in this case maybe Dag and his group of engineers stole if from someone else? If so then the Chinese should be going after the former CEOs of Siri, Inc not apple?
The look and behavior in that video is so exactly like Siri, there are really only two possibilities:
1) Apple stole it outright from Zhi Zhen.
2) Zhi Zhen patented the basic concept in 2004, but stole the current look and feel from Apple once Siri shipped.
The discovery process should be interesting!
(P.S., my money is on #2 above)
Siri was not created by apple they bought the rights from the founder company Siri, Inc
Siri, Inc. was founded in 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (VP Engineering), and Tom Gruber (CTO/VP Design), together with Norman Winarsky from SRI International's venture group, and is named after SRI (although Kittlaus claims he wanted to name the daughter he never had "Siri", Norwegian for "beautiful woman who leads you to victory", he cites as primary "the fact that [it] is easy to spell [and] easy to say"
On October 13, 2008, Siri announced it had raised an $8.5 million Series A financing round, led by Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. In November 2009, Siri raised a $15.5 million Series B financing round from the same investors as in their previous round, but led by Hong-Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Dag Kittlaus left his position as CEO of Siri at Apple after the launch of the iPhone 4S.
Apple did not steal anything from anyone in this case maybe Dag and his group of engineers stole if from someone else? If so then the Chinese should be going after the former CEOs of Siri, Inc not apple?