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Apple Hires Former AltaVista and Amazon Search Exec to Run Siri Unit
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“Be prepared for betrayal from anyone on your staff, but especially from those you have the most trust in. Every betrayal must be repaid as quickly and as publicly as possible. If you should let a betrayal go unpunished, you are through as a leader.” Unknown.
It has nothing to do with beating them through litigation. It is about destroying every fabric ever produced by Google. One small step at a time, over a very long period of time.
You can thank Eric.
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Yes, I used it on a Grey iMac DV 400mhz. Those were the days.
He said that Google started the war, and he is correct. Apple didn't go into the search business, but Google is trying to kill the iPhone!
The first in what I feel will be a string of rumors point to Apple's development of its own search engine. I have been predicting this in the back of my head ever since the Apple-Google war started.
Hahah at first I was thinking "Is it just me or...". Good to know I'm not the only one. We better hope Apple didn't get trade raped on this one.
That's the spirit! You're life will be so much better in an Apple dominated world. And dollars to donuts you don't own stock either. The more money Apple makes, the better off you are.
You're being very dillusional about this. If you think Apple can take down Google, you are sadly mistaken. Anyways, why would you even want this?
It works for me, I would estimate, 80% of the time. You know the things it does and doesn't do, no? As a last result, if Siri doesn't know what to say, she'll put your search on Google, or your search engine of choice.
Google? No. HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems. Yes.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance
Yes Google. They sell smartphones and supply the OS to other vendors in exchange for ads and extending their search monopolistic power. They also refuse to pay Microsoft and Apple for patents that Android violates.
If this guy can make Siri say something besides "did you say....." every time you use it, he'll be a genius.
And at least what was witnessed through the news, lines were the longest they've ever been in Apple stores outside the U.S.
So regardless of how bad Maps people "claim" they are, the iPhone 5 is still selling strong overseas.
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I listen to the quarterly results , well each quarter. Apple makes more than half of their sales in the US. You are wrong. But, with thanks to China, I expect within 5 years 2/3 will be from outside of USA.
But even then you are wrong because Apples mapping in China is state of the art.
You are also wrong because the survey results are not irrelevant simply because YOU say so. To date that is only survey anyone can point to which actually measures customer satisfaction and not that of lazy tech bloggers regurgitating the same story in an echo chamber. The results are also not exclusive to the USA, so wrong again your logic is simply wrong.
Consumer Reports of all sources is only once to actually cross checked Apple Maps against Googles maps and found them to be fairly equivalent. Not bad for a 1.0 product.
The people who have been making the most hay from this are once again the lazy tech writers hoping for hit which gets them lots of traffic, and Google fan boys
I listen to the quarterly results , well each quarter. Apple makes more than half of their sales in the US. You are wrong. But, with thanks to China, I expect within 5 years 2/3 will be from outside of USA.
But even then you are wrong because Apples mapping in China is state of the art.
You are also wrong because the survey results are not irrelevant simply because YOU say so. To date that is only survey anyone can point to which actually measures customer satisfaction and not that of lazy tech bloggers regurgitating the same story in an echo chamber. The results are also not exclusive to the USA, so wrong again your logic is simply wrong.
Consumer Reports of all sources is only once to actually cross checked Apple Maps against Googles maps and found them to be fairly equivalent. Not bad for a 1.0 product.
The people who have been making the most hay from this are once again the lazy tech writers hoping for hit which gets them lots of traffic, and Google fan boys
Tom Gruber
who was one of the three founders remains at Apple.
He gave a series of demos in 2009 and 2010 that caught everyone's attention - there was even a Siri app before it was purchased by Apple.
Watching this video you get a sense of the technologies potential, as there are several features here that didn't make it to the current version
http://youtu.be/MpjpVAB06O4
Siri is just getting started.
who was one of the three founders remains at Apple.
He gave a series of demos in 2009 and 2010 that caught everyone's attention - there was even a Siri app before it was purchased by Apple.
Watching this video you get a sense of the technologies potential, as there are several features here that didn't make it to the current version
http://youtu.be/MpjpVAB06O4
Siri is just getting started.
AltaVista? Oh, god, the legacy.
What's going to happen now? We're all going to go back to Nokia flip phones, Yahoo! mail, and downgrade our systems to Windows 95 with a 56k connection + NetScape Navigator 5.0?
(I will admit, those were the days...)
What's going to happen now? We're all going to go back to Nokia flip phones, Yahoo! mail, and downgrade our systems to Windows 95 with a 56k connection + NetScape Navigator 5.0?
(I will admit, those were the days...)
AltaVista and DEC... oh the memories and what could have been. So many blown opportunities and wrong paths taken.
Oh, I'm serious. She understands the majority of what I say. So either you have a heavy Carolina drawl or you need to learn some damn English, boy.
Born and raised in PA so no "Carolina drawl" here. Do some research, siri's ability to comprehend a wide variety of different voice patterns needs some work.
Judging by your signature, you must think your always right, but you're dead wrong if you think I'm the only one who is having difficulty using Siri.