Why would I want to put an AI on my iPhone that's trying to dictate humanity and rule the Galaxy? 
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Microsoft Begins Sign-Ups for 'Cortana for iOS' Beta Program
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That is because to access it you have to go down to the start bar, at that point since i already moved my mouse from what i was doing, i could press next or do the action myself...
I have a Windows Phone, and find this to be very overrated. I don't use Cortana at all. It feels like a gimmick, to me. Same with Siri on iOS. I do like dictation, and being able to dictate a reminder or a Google search or make a call while driving; but I don't get any value from the so-called 'predictive intelligence' which people are losing their minds over. Maybe if I was a moron who didn't know when it was time to leave the office and go home, or was in the habit of forgetting where I live, or had no idea how to put an appointment in my calendar.....it feels like a solution to a problem which doesn't exist. Like the SurfaceBook, which solves the problem of not having a digital clipboard combined with a laptop computer. Microsoft is solving all the problems we don't have.
Smells like someone is fishing for email addresses and other data via Survey Monkey, pretending to be Microsoft. They're using the free SurveyMonkey plan. MS got out of money?
It depends how you define "intelligent". Siri understood context from the start. For example, you could tell Siri to create an alarm, then change "it" to a different time.
It took Google 2 years to copy that level of intelligence and later added proactive features (which can be useful or creepy). MS simply expanded on that to places and things.
Not sure why anyone would install this on their iPhone? By default, Siri would always be better because of the integration. Why add more bloat on to the phone? It's like the Android phones that come out today with 2 mail and calendar apps.
I wasn’t suggesting you were doing anything nefarious. Basically I’d checked the user profile to better illustrate my point. You guys DO have the email address, and probably the town the occupation and name I took from the profile. I said probably in my previous post and here as these could have been given deliberately wrong on the profile.
I promise you, you aren’t as elusive as you’d like to be despite your best efforts.
The site administrators most probably have your name and email address on record but the forum moderators do not have access to that information.
After what MS is doing to OneDrive, I'm bailing out on their cloud services. Can't treat customers that way and expect them to stick around.
Pointless.
This app will do as well as Google Now does on iOS - which is not well at all.
Just a way for MS to try and tap into the much larger iOS platform and collect our data since their own Windows mobile platform is a failure.
This app will do as well as Google Now does on iOS - which is not well at all.
Just a way for MS to try and tap into the much larger iOS platform and collect our data since their own Windows mobile platform is a failure.
It's not a backdoor, it's a front door. It's like having a home with a specially designed door so a greedy crook with a MS-logo on the chest can enter and snoop around.
If you like that, maybe you have something in common with Mark Roberts. (link is NSFW)
If you like that, maybe you have something in common with Mark Roberts. (link is NSFW)
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Well, it does not scare me, no.
First, because I actually understand the idea behind giving the governments information about you if there's charge pressed against you. Now, I also believe the government won't have to do it except if they're interested in me. And IF they are interested in me, I clearly wouldn't be using anything unencrypted, or on a computer where someone could sneak in and steal stuff.
Second, because i'd rather have them give my information to the government for free than selling them to random companies for a living.
Third because even if they were selling them, I'd rather have interesting and pertinent ads than random stuff about "find a hot russian woman near you", trading or the upcoming event about something I don't care at all, like ladders or chainsaws.
Now about that, Google and Facebook does not sell *your* information, as advertisment targets people by age, interests, location ... and no personnal information are ever given to you : they could be anyone in the world. And no filter in any of their advertising managers are ever precise enough to target someone precisely.
You mean the guy watching me across the street isn't one of macrumors' moderator ?
I better call the police now :|
The problem with this is it can't be always on, like Siri is.
When I need Google Now, sometimes I'll say "Hey Siri, Open Google," which works OK, but is that PITA extra step.
I have been hoping that Apple would feel secure enough in its market position to let us change default apps by now, but I guess not.
This is still one of the major annoyances odd iOS as compared to Android for me, since I use none of Apple's apps on a daily basis, but instead use alternatives with superior functionality, usually purchased from the App Store.
When I need Google Now, sometimes I'll say "Hey Siri, Open Google," which works OK, but is that PITA extra step.
I have been hoping that Apple would feel secure enough in its market position to let us change default apps by now, but I guess not.
This is still one of the major annoyances odd iOS as compared to Android for me, since I use none of Apple's apps on a daily basis, but instead use alternatives with superior functionality, usually purchased from the App Store.
I find cortana to be quite unless right now. From my experience she's just a glorified search engine. Asking cortana to do something like "open Skype" she says "ok sure, which one did you mean?" Presenting three options, this is normal and expected of course except for the fact that Skype isn't even one of the options. Asking her Siri standard stuff such as what's the weather like gets you a bing search for weather instead of opening the weather app (which IS set up) or a widget of it.
Cortana will get better, but as far as I'm concerned she's the apple maps of the virtual assistants. Lots of potential, just not there yet. But if you look at how far Apple maps have come since launch, cortana has a bright future.
Cortana will get better, but as far as I'm concerned she's the apple maps of the virtual assistants. Lots of potential, just not there yet. But if you look at how far Apple maps have come since launch, cortana has a bright future.
True. Increasingly, we are heading toward a more heterogeneous technology environment. I think the statistic is most iPhone (and Android) users have a Windows system (or systems). So pairing an iPhone with a Windows computer should be natural / typical.
I find it ironic they choose China and US first - If it can figure out Chinese language I am impressed.
With intelligence I mean that Cortana works independently from voice commands. It collects data about you and uses this to give you relevant information when you need it or understand your commands better based on context. Siri did not do this, it was basically just a sophisticated interpreter that only ever worked when you posed a question. Google Now does the same thing, it uses the data to your immediate advantage without you having to ask for something specifically. What Apple introduced as “ProActive” is what Cortana already had from the start. This is the feature set that makes Cortana interesting across platforms. It could show you the same personal digest and daily overview based on the data it collected elsewhere, it could notify you of your appointments in your email accounts. Cortana is more than just a voice assistant and even though its true that it will never be integrated into iOS, it can still bring something to the table for Windows users.