Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana App for iOS and Android

[chivkea]

Shutdown? Then, what's Cortana good for? Microsoft is really bad at handling anything mobile.

 

[hagjohn]

An AI service that didn’t have native integration with the rest of the OS was always doomed to fail. Microsoft has a strong desktop computing platform, but they have virtually no smartphone presence, which is where a digital assistant makes the most sense (due to how cumbersome many tasks still are to perform on mobile compared to a desktop).

I had a windows phone at the time (Nokia 1020). It was great and she worked. I mostly got answers to (most of) my queries while Siri would just send people to webpages. Now I have an iPhone and hardly ever use Siri.

 

[Runs For Fun]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[ArPe]

Her name was Cortana, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor, they worked from eight til four
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?
At the Corta Cortacortana
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Corta Cortacortana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Cortacortana they fell in love

💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩🚽

 

[Solomani]

That's really going to upset both people that use it...

Cortana will probably be buried in the same graveyard as Bob, Zune and Paperclip.

 

[reden]

I have all Apple devices but depend on Google Assistant! Apple should integrate it into iOS along with Amazon's Alexa. I always turn off Siri when I get a new Apple mobile device! Never used Cortana!

This is the same type of person that will complain why are companies spying on him lollll. There's a reason why Siri "sucks".

 

[mi7chy]

Still smarter than Siri.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I completely forgot I had it installed. I had a folder with all my assistants so if one couldn't help me, I can just go to the others to ask for information or help.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

This is Microsoft....windows RT, windows 10S, windnows phone,cortana, surface duo...a lot of software/hardware that dont see the light for 3 years ..whats next try Microsoft?

The worst part of that list is that everything on there is a great concept, just lacking in execution or marketing.

• Windows RT. That's basically the iPad, but running macOS instead of iOS. People have asking for just that for years.
• Windows 10S. That's a locked down slimmed down version of the OS that gives you over 20 hours of runtime on the Surface Go 2. Of course the first thing every tech site does is exit "S" mode so that they can install benchmark suites...
• Windows Phone. It was, at one time, better than iOS, minus the apps because marketing was non-existant or self destructive at almost every step.
• Cortana. On Windows Phone 7, it could do things that Siri couldn't do until a year or two ago. Call it 5 years ahead of its time. But then they simultaneously destroyed it while forcing it onto every PC without even giving it a proper UI, and wonder why nobody likes it.
• Surface Duo. Ask anyone with a dual monitor setup how much that 2nd screen increases productivity. But it's running a buggy mess of an OS, has a crap camera, and no NFC.

 

[Mimiron]

If Microsoft's good at anything, it's canceling products and projects .

 

[honglong1976]

Cortana was vastly more intelligent than Siri, it just lacked native integration on iOS which rendered it pointless.

Apple Siri vs Amazon Alexa vs Google Assistant: Tests reveal which is smartest

Voice assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google all improve on smartphones but Google Assistant is still top dog.

www.zdnet.com

 

[oosamon]

Cortana fana fofana fee fi fonana, Cortana!

 

[Abazigal]

Still smarter than Siri.

For all the good it did Microsoft. Which is really the point here.

 

[Philip_S]

they're bring back Clippy aren't they?

Clippy was more useful than the Cortana Daily Briefing that's baked into their email tools somewhere. It very intelligently analyses my emails to identify the messages it thinks are interesting and displays the first sentence or two. That lets it tell me that 3 days ago I sent an email to someone, or that yesterday I got an email saying "Thanks" (plus a signature block), carefully cutting out all the context that might have made that information useful and ignoring that i've marked it read via IMAP.

 

[garylapointe]

Still smarter than Siri.

Not any more...

 

[MBAir2010]

who what where?
oh that, is there an update for this in sWindows10?

Mes: "Hey Cortina, Tell Tina i want to Court 'er!
cortina: are your siri us?
Mes: "alasxa later"

 

[oldMacGenius]

The divorce netted me:

- $125 in Microsoft Store credits for owning two Harman/Kardon Invoke Smart speakers and a pair of 1st generation Surface Headphones.

- Two Harman/Kardon Bluetooth Speakers.

Now that it’s final, Cortana has no more love for me.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Surprise?

Not surprised that an AI when issued to the public as a product is an automatic fail when it is its primary goal. Btw Cortana as an AI in Exchange or Outlook is also complete junk!
heck the HomePod lasted longer than Cortana

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Not surprised that an AI when issued to the public as a product is an automatic fail when it is its primary goal. Btw Cortana as an AI in Exchange or Outlook is also complete junk!
heck the HomePod lasted longer than Cortana

Cortana came out 7 years ago. It might last longer, but it hasn't yet.