The problem with Samsung is that they always "innovate" after an Apple keynote...
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Samsung is Developing a Smart Speaker Using 'Bixby' Virtual Assistant
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The problem with Samsung is that they always "innovate" after an Apple keynote...
To be fair that’s not how R&D works. You don’t come up with a brand new product within a few weeks or even months and then release it. They generally work on this for a few years.
That is true but they do not have the product yet, Samsung just made an announcement. Also, who knows which part of the HomePod produced by Samsung. They probably had an idea what is coming.
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Sorry Samesung, even if it was free I wouldnt reward your lack of ideas by owning it.
I would love to read Samsung's privacy policy when they release the device.
If you own Apple devices. YES, you actually do already. They just ain't outwardly branded as Samsung. Quit being so religious.
Apple has at least the decency of deconstructing the concept first and come up with a better offering. Samsung just blatantly copies. If you can't see that maybe you have religious freak tendencies as well.
I don't know. The Bixby Button currently takes me to a page very much like the iPhone widgets page. If I want more than that, I would have to agree to let Bixby track everything on my phone, including my messages, and share it with their partners, so I decided to skip that for now. With Google Assistant, which I use in a limited way, I can delve into everything that is collected and delete or limit what's stored and collected. I see no options to do so for Bixby so I won't sign on.Does Bixby actually work now? I thought it was funny they added a button dedicated to something that didn’t even work. And they made sure you couldn’t reprogram it
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Remind me: what was the "better" part again?
This thread is already hilarious. Mass sentiment slamming copycat. Yet hop back to Apple's announcement and see very little of such claims applied to something very similar to existing products from Amazon & Google. Was Apple's HomePod an "original" idea? (rhetorical. I know some of us will find a way- ANY WAY- to NOT see Apple's version as a copy while seeing this thing as definitely a copy... and of only Apple's version.
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First one has their profile limited.
Second one doesn't comment on that.
Third one believes that Amazon doesn't use Alexa in their speakers.
It truly boggles my mind. What makes a person blindly 'see' a company in such a light?
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Humor, such as this, is completely lost on me.
Apple is producing a high end speaker which happens to have Siri, so what's your point. seems Samsung is closer to copying amazon and apple than anything else
Amazon copied Siri so hey hmm.
Oh please, get a hold of yourself. When Apple weren't first they innovated, (by buying other companies with the tech in a lot of instances which actually means that company did all the innovating), when anybody else does it they're copying.
I think it's the timing. The Google Home and Amazon echo came out more than 12 months ago (2014 for the echo!). Sure Apple copied and entered the same market but they took their time.
The HomePod has been announced a month ago and isn't even on sale yet and now we're hearing Samsung is jumping in on the maket too.
There's a difference between copying and building on existing ideas which is what innovation is.
Echo is essentially a dedicated Siri box with better mics and speakers, for example.
HomePod takes that and makes it more useful by including some of the most advanced speaker tech we've seen in years.
Samsung OTOH has a history of photocopying so while we don't know what the final product will look like, all the flack they get is justified IMO.
Can someone develop a bot that posts the eyeroll emoji anytime a Samsung article is posted?
By most advanced, you mean “occasionally better than a product that’s been out for over a year”, right?
Samsung makes a better television than Apple. Even though Apple sells a product specifically called Apple TV.
