as an apple fanboy, i wish apple moved more stuff in house
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as an apple fanboy, i wish apple moved more stuff in house
Why the hell does Samsung need this? Their devices run Android so don't they already have this with S Voice?
Are they doing it just to piss off Apple?
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Truly, truly, truly unbelievable. This is such a boneheaded move by Apple.
You ... you really don't understand just how important Nuance are. There will be a biblical outcry. It's not just a case of 'discontinue it, **** happens'.
Siri, how much do you cost? ;-)
No computer has ever recognized my voice well. In a quiet room. Congrats on being understood by Siri. Not everyone is.I find Siri incredibly useful.
I think the people who claim Siri blows are those who first tried it on the 4S, got frustrated after a few hiccups and never touched it again. Siri has come a long way since then.
The recognition even in a crowded car on my 5C is extremely accurate and the hands-free "Hey Siri" works well there too. Shazam integration is awesome and I use Siri constantly for reminders.
People keep saying this, but Apple licenses the Maps data from outside. So, that's a pretty bad analogy, failing utterly to be similar to your premise.Apple doing it "in house".....can anyone say "maps"? That was really successful /Sarcasm
No computer has ever recognized my voice well. In a quiet room. Congrats on being understood by Siri. Not everyone is.
Instead of being Happy for Apple to be a small company that made it. it's everyone versus Apple because they made it! OMG! haters everywhere! So, what's the message here? follow your dreams and DIE!!!! ???
Hey! At least they didn't just steal it.
oh boy....they are really into this copying game.
Siri : How's the weather like ?
Sorry, your Samsung device was not recognized...change it and try again
That seems like a stupid acquisition to make.
Nuance Communications has a market cap of about $6 billion, so purchasing the company may cost $7-$8 billion - and this is for a company that makes no money. They actually lost $115 million last year.
And seeing as how Samsung already partners with them, I don't see any reason for Samsung to make this acquisition. It seems like nothing more than an attempt by Samsung to get Apple more reliant on them. But $7-$8 billion is an awful lot of money to spent on that, given that Apple has been working on developing their own internal Nuance alternative for a while now.
The problem is Steve isn't there any more.
I mean if you are going to partner with a company and then decide to break ties and move development in-house it only makes sense for Nuance to look to sell to the closest competitor.
Of course the only reason why Samsung is looking at this is they think they might be able to get Apple into some crippling licensing agreement, but I am sure that by the time Samsung owns Nuance, Apple will use their own proprietary technology.