Not interested, stopped using Microsoft products and removed them from all of my apple devices a long time ago. Good riddance. #
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Microsoft Announces Cortana For iPhone Available Later This Year
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I think that Siri, Google Voice and now Cortana, are nice. However, I really never use any of these things. Maybe I have become the old man, but I just can't get into talking to my phone.
I have tried the dictation on the watch and found that to work extremely well, but even that I don't see me using very much.
I have tried the dictation on the watch and found that to work extremely well, but even that I don't see me using very much.
I've literally just put my THIRD Lumia in six months, on eBay. Dumped, ditched, and I am back to my good old trusty 4S. It's like coming home from a bad holiday to a warm, clean and tidy house.
Lumia had it's chance - blew it on SO many levels, with countless bugs and stupidly insisting on gratutitous and slow animations, being the main offenders. I merely wanted to give a platform I'd never tried, a chance - I have tried Lumia 635, 640 and 735... NEVER again.
However... Cortana is very VERY good... but then, I have Siri, and that is good enough for me.
Apple really DOES make the best smart phone, bar none.
iPhone user since 2009.
Lumia had it's chance - blew it on SO many levels, with countless bugs and stupidly insisting on gratutitous and slow animations, being the main offenders. I merely wanted to give a platform I'd never tried, a chance - I have tried Lumia 635, 640 and 735... NEVER again.
However... Cortana is very VERY good... but then, I have Siri, and that is good enough for me.
Apple really DOES make the best smart phone, bar none.
iPhone user since 2009.
Actually, Microsoft missed the boat again and is really becoming totally irrelevant. While you sit there with your pom poms out, Windows and Office haven't taken evolutionary steps in years. It's really the same old crap year after year. Microsoft truly gets their ideas from Apple and Google and follow up with a "me too" product that no one is interested in. They could easily innovate on the gaming PC side of things at least since they own it. They won't though because they need Apple or Google to show them how first.
Microsoft wants to keep Window relevant so they keep pushing it even when folks no longer want it. Windows on a tablet? People want a OS designed for a tablet first, not a desktop OS forced on to a tablet. The kicker is that they state how productive you can be but the interface will give you headaches. Non touch friendly Office? 2 Internet Explorers? Yea, good luck with that.
What about all the pour souls that bought Windows Phone 7 only for Microsoft to reboot and make that platform irrelevant? Now we are at another Microsoft reboot with Windows 10 and this will not get off the ground as well.
Jumpy, much?
Watching the guy's hands and arms jumping so much the entire video made me really dislike Microsoft products even more.
I notice too, they are copying the Apple lay back dress down approach with no dress shirt or suit doing the presentation.
Yep - Microsoft playing catch up.
Watching the guy's hands and arms jumping so much the entire video made me really dislike Microsoft products even more.
I notice too, they are copying the Apple lay back dress down approach with no dress shirt or suit doing the presentation.
Yep - Microsoft playing catch up.
I really hope they pull this off with Win10 and a better supported phone OS.
Apple is the giant these days and we need a new hungry underdog with some fresh ideas and some good alternative products.
I would much like to have a Nokia-built phone.
The build quality are usually awesome, but Symbian, Meego and the older versions of Win Mobile have all sucked. Let´s hope MS fix this
MS did buy Danger. Maybe they'll use some of that IP.
Good of microsoft but of little relevance for iOS users. We already have Google app on iOS which features Google's voice service which is wonderfully accurate. However, other than when your in that browser it doesn't help for the majority of one's needs, since all commands via the home button such as reminders, opening apps, tasks, questions, directions, and all go through Siri.
This is no incentive for Apple to open up the OS to Google's voice or others such as Microsoft because they wouldn't have control over it, and would be conceding publicly to everyone (aka non techies) that Google (or another service) is better than Siri and that Apple is unable to improve. Just like with Maps.
What will happen is Apple will continue to buy talent/companies and using it's money to improve in those areas such as voice and maps.
This is no incentive for Apple to open up the OS to Google's voice or others such as Microsoft because they wouldn't have control over it, and would be conceding publicly to everyone (aka non techies) that Google (or another service) is better than Siri and that Apple is unable to improve. Just like with Maps.
What will happen is Apple will continue to buy talent/companies and using it's money to improve in those areas such as voice and maps.
I really don't know why Apple often comes up with the most innovative things and later abandons them. Don't they have enough money?
Siri is a classic example. Little if anything was done to enhance functionality.
To solve that difficult problem, you just need to set Siri to male and they certainly get kids some day.
I like how he asked for proof and your answer is "because!"
Not that there is any way to objectively prove it, but still. "Infinitely" is ridiculous.
The fact that Apple uses Azure to power their cloud seems to me to be pretty objective proof.
Spend one month with Word/Excel and one month with Pages/Numbers.
Then get back to me.
This could be the foot in the door that Windows Phone needs to draw in Apple customers. Kind of like what iTunes did to PC customers around the time of the iPod.
One less reason for a Windoze phone
Coratana was the most attractive thing on the Windows/Nokia Phones, Thank You M$!
Coratana was the most attractive thing on the Windows/Nokia Phones, Thank You M$!
No, these are apps that are going to be on the app store.
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I think bbeagle is just trolling. There's no way Numbers can match Excel
You're naming it wrongly!(TM)
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I prefer to call her "bitch". YMMV.
It started out leveraging Azure, but I believe Apple's moved on to their own platform since.
This might be excellent news for folks that live in a Microsft world but carry iOS devices.
If only Apple ported iTunes and the iTunes music store over to Windows Mobile and Android. And also allowed them to sync with iTunes on the Mac and PC.
If only Apple ported iTunes and the iTunes music store over to Windows Mobile and Android. And also allowed them to sync with iTunes on the Mac and PC.
I don't know many people who use Google Now on iPhone because it's not easy to activate and you can't use it to control many of the systems and app in iOS. For the same reason not many people will use Cortana. You have to unlock your phone, open the app, and then you can use it to do a limited set of things compared to Siri. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying these other platforms are worse than Siri, but the current way that iOS works prevents them from being better. Hence nobody will use them. After all these years I can't even set defaults for web browsers, calendars, etc in iOS. Heck, there isn't even a built-in app to get to my iCloud Drive files. No way we can replace Siri with another assistant! Microsoft would have to announce a special partnership with Apple if that were the case. I'm not saying it won't happen, but it's very unlikely and would require a lot of change.
Nick names and family relation fields being populated in Contacts would help solve that problem.
"Siri, call my brother-in-law."
"Siri, call 'Fat head'."