I'm as patient with Apple as anyone - I love their computers and their phones, and I'll probably buy a Watch when the second-gen is released.
But how they bought Siri and actually had these guys working for them and yet Apple aren't the ones making this announcement is incredible.
This presentation should have been a part of WWDC, built into iOS 10, OS X, watch OS 3.0 and the newest tvOS. I guess we'll have to wait until June 13th, but man, this will be hard to beat.
I'm as patient with Apple as anyone - I love their computers and their phones, and I'll probably buy a Watch when the second-gen is released.
But how they bought Siri and actually had these guys working for them and yet Apple aren't the ones making this announcement is incredible.
This presentation should have been a part of WWDC, built into iOS 10, OS X, watch OS 3.0 and the newest tvOS. I guess we'll have to wait until June 13th, but man, this will be hard to beat.
Are you sure Quicktime is capable of that? Because I'm pretty sure it isn't (but would love to be corrected).
So if Viv is "self-coding", why are these guys showing it off? Surely Viv can show itself off, proudly, if it wrote itself?
11 mins of geek talk? My attention span can't handle that - yawn - just get to the point FAST, show me a clear and concise demo then go away, and make sure you've got "Viv" speaking back when you do a demo, next time - oh, and those graphics are horrendous - Apple will soon fix that for ya
"Dragon's Den" would boot you out if you took this long to cut to the chase.
Yeah and the Macbook with glowing Apple logo and this announcements proximity to WWDC is hard to think of as a coincidence. No big conspiracy, just a gentle little tip-of-the-hat-and-a-wink to Apple, not enough to offend though, just in case they end up selling it back to themI hope they do as Siri hasn't moved on at all, it's just as confused by the things i ask today as it was the first day i had it.
I do this already for the Google assistant. It's worth it and it DOES work.
Me: I need directions to the nearest Smashburger.
Siri: Would you like me to search the internet?
Me: Yes.
Siri: I'm sorry "me", I can't do that.
Me: Okay Google...
and then it searches the web for vivJust ask Siri to launch Viv and go from there.![]()
Doubt it. Apple is so far behind in all things tech, I don't see how they could possibly catch up. Siri STILL isn't fully functional. This blows Siri out of the water on Day 1. Heck, Cortana blew Siri out of the water Day 1. Apple has to do more than build pretty rectangles.
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It'll still be faster than using Siri.
It's an early demo, but if it knew where I liked to stay, it could be as simple as that. Also, if you were telling your assistant to book you a ride for 6 people you'd need to be pretty specific with them. I've been using Siri more and more recently but it is severely limited in what it can do. I'm not certain I understand the "frictionless" unless it's about being integrated into the OS. If so, completely agree.I get a bit nervous when tech demos use ideal scenarios. There is some browsing and refining involved in the hotel demo, but would you really book one that blindly? Or know exactly where you're taking your uber from and that you need to specify the number of people upfront and build a perfect query containing all of that info? Very impressive and feel like Apple could greatly benefit from their expertise, but as a 3rd party product you it'll never be as frictionless as Siri, even if more robust. My guess is that they're aiming for acquisition and negotiating their terms when brought back into whatever company acquires them, which could be Apple, or even a car maker.
Still boring.
The video made me cringe... The front mic is located in the receiver mesh at the top of the phone...
I always laugh when i see people on speaker phone holding the bottom of the phone to their face...
<Insert Skynet joke here>
I'm with you here, let's not forgot the behind the scenes of the iPhone presentation http://gizmodo.com/the-iphones-first-demo-was-buggy-as-hell-1441324523I get a bit nervous when tech demos use ideal scenarios. There is some browsing and refining involved in the hotel demo, but would you really book one that blindly? Or know exactly where you're taking your uber from and that you need to specify the number of people upfront and build a perfect query containing all of that info? Very impressive and feel like Apple could greatly benefit from their expertise, but as a 3rd party product you it'll never be as frictionless as Siri, even if more robust. My guess is that they're aiming for acquisition and negotiating their terms when brought back into whatever company acquires them, which could be Apple, or even a car maker.
Yeah and the Macbook with glowing Apple logo and this announcements proximity to WWDC is hard to think of as a coincidence. No big conspiracy, just a gentle little tip-of-the-hat-and-a-wink to Apple, not enough to offend though, just in case they end up selling it back to themI hope they do as Siri hasn't moved on at all, it's just as confused by the things i ask today as it was the first day i had it.
Go and play candycrash dude. Tailor made 4 u
Bilingual, or even trilingual Siri is a must now. I have couple of Spanish and Japanese songs that I Siri won't play for me because the name of the song is in a diffrent language.