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Why Assistant Needs an A5 and How it Was 'Many Iterations' Ahead of its Competitors
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yeah, using raw power to iron out the flaws of unoptimized code on the iPhone 5 sounds much cooler...
This kind of statement implies a very un-Apple way of thinking...
I can see many anti-Apple people are feeling VERY nervous and scared right about now. Apple is just about to sew up the smartphone market for the next 10 years with this.
"A...... I...... what does the A stand for?" "Artificial." "....What does the I..." "Intelligence!" "Ohhh............. what was the A again?"
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I wonder if this will be built into the plists like multitasking and home screen wallpaper, meaning devices that "can't run it" can simply have it enabled by changing the word from false to true in the string when jailbroken.
Exactly. Of course, this will raise all the "texting and driving" issues. Perhaps Assistant can be programmed to be limited to accepting GPS and call commands when in a car mode.
I could see pressing a button and saying "Call ARN" or "Send ARN a text saying I'm running late" in public, though. That's no more unusual than seeing someone with a Bluetooth headset walking down the street and talking into thin air (which I see all the time).
re: in car use
Yeah, IMO, the car is really the one area where cellphone makers have been slow to adapt to what the market really needs.
EG. Android developed a simplified "home screen" that can be configured to display whenever the phone detects it's attached to a car kit. Great idea that the iPhone hasn't even begun to address, to date. The Android implementation is still weak though, IMO. I know with my Sprint HTC Evo 4G phone, for example, it never auto-switches in my Jeep because apparently, it's not enough for it to physically pair up to my car stereo via bluetooth. It wants to see some sort of *physical* cable connection that lets it know a car kit is attached, or at least, the ID of a known "car kit" device its programmed to look for?
MUCH more could be done though. I know I'd like to see "out of the box" solutions that detect you're connected to a car stereo and therefore, automatically switch SMS texting to a mode where incoming texts are read to you, and voice recognition is used to compose replies. (On vehicles with a full-screen touchscreen type stereo, it'd be slick if they could even display an incoming MMS photo or video on the car's screen, too.)
Yeah, IMO, the car is really the one area where cellphone makers have been slow to adapt to what the market really needs.
EG. Android developed a simplified "home screen" that can be configured to display whenever the phone detects it's attached to a car kit. Great idea that the iPhone hasn't even begun to address, to date. The Android implementation is still weak though, IMO. I know with my Sprint HTC Evo 4G phone, for example, it never auto-switches in my Jeep because apparently, it's not enough for it to physically pair up to my car stereo via bluetooth. It wants to see some sort of *physical* cable connection that lets it know a car kit is attached, or at least, the ID of a known "car kit" device its programmed to look for?
MUCH more could be done though. I know I'd like to see "out of the box" solutions that detect you're connected to a car stereo and therefore, automatically switch SMS texting to a mode where incoming texts are read to you, and voice recognition is used to compose replies. (On vehicles with a full-screen touchscreen type stereo, it'd be slick if they could even display an incoming MMS photo or video on the car's screen, too.)
Even more appropriate. Get a Bluetooth headset for your helmet and now you can interact with your phone while riding.
It's a HAL reference, but the guy quoted Apple's technology as being called (a) PAL. From what I can tell, PAL stands for "Personal Assistant that Learns", though that wasn't mentioned in the article.
There are many counter-examples...
3GS, various iPod updates, most MBP updates, looked nearly identical to the previous models, but sold well.
Anyway, are there really lots of average Joes upgrading their phone every year anyway? Apple can keep up with most if they redesign once every two years.
I'm personally going from 3GS to 4S (or whatever it's called) and I don't care one whit that it looks like the iPhone 4. I'm pretty sure it will be an amazing update over the 3GS.
I see more scared apple fans than anti-apple lol.
Android is about to get nexus prime, sgs III and few others that give people tingles already.
Again, I like apple, I use apple, hell I even develop for iOS but please stop being a retard. Just no need. Enjoy YOUR device and stop trying to publicly justify (trying to tell others your phone is better than theirs seems like insecurity to me just if you are asking so yes I find this as justification so others can "like" your post and you can feel better... lol) your choice like you're awesome or something. Dude. It Is Just A Phone.
Discuss features, what's good bad but leave the other stuff for others or just go and buy it since you talk about it so much.
Stupid...
I don't want to awkwardly talk to my phone in public and my car has bluetooth phone calling with voice assist built in (which will be standard in all cars shortly if not already). I just want LTE speed and a 3.7-4 inch screen. Is that too much to ask?
I don't want to awkwardly talk to my phone in public and my car has bluetooth phone calling with voice assist built in (which will be standard in all cars shortly if not already). I just want LTE speed and a 3.7-4 inch screen. Is that too much to ask?
My thoughts this whole time has been "voice control stuff is stupid and I'd never use it"
But maybe this will be practical. Just depends on how fast it is
But maybe this will be practical. Just depends on how fast it is
Well if it every happens I'll love it, as will everyone.
The problem is as always, you need a brain that can understand what you are trying to say and give you what you want. And as far as I know we don't have that yet even in any supercomputer that exists today, let alone a mobile phone.
Such as on Star Trek:
"Computer, play me some music"
The computer plays something random it knows you like.
You then say
"Nooo, not that, I mean something relaxing"
The computer then selects a track of soothing music to play.
Also it needs to know when you are speaking to it as opposed to speaking to someone else, or just talking to yourself.
"Computer........... Ohhhh, what shall, I pick? I know. Play me some nice music"
It has to understand the "Ohhhh, what shall I pick" was not you taking to it, but just human thinking out loud.
One day, one day.
But not yet methinks.
The problem is as always, you need a brain that can understand what you are trying to say and give you what you want. And as far as I know we don't have that yet even in any supercomputer that exists today, let alone a mobile phone.
Such as on Star Trek:
"Computer, play me some music"
The computer plays something random it knows you like.
You then say
"Nooo, not that, I mean something relaxing"
The computer then selects a track of soothing music to play.
Also it needs to know when you are speaking to it as opposed to speaking to someone else, or just talking to yourself.
"Computer........... Ohhhh, what shall, I pick? I know. Play me some nice music"
It has to understand the "Ohhhh, what shall I pick" was not you taking to it, but just human thinking out loud.
One day, one day.
But not yet methinks.
All that voice stuf is cool at first but get's old quick.
I can talk to my android and "write" entire emails, text messages (very accurately once you get used to it) and whatever I want to yet I use this feature once every chinese year. It's out there for ages but nothing groundbreaking in my opinion no matter how apple will make it look.
I can talk to my android and "write" entire emails, text messages (very accurately once you get used to it) and whatever I want to yet I use this feature once every chinese year. It's out there for ages but nothing groundbreaking in my opinion no matter how apple will make it look.
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It will be fast, smooth, flow like water. iPhone users will end up doing almost everything through the PAL instead of touch commands. A real revolution in computing. I predict this will sell 150 million iPhone 5s in the next year easily. Maybe 200 million. Android is about to crater!
I've long since held this opinion, but I used every jailbreak trick in the book to make my 3G run the full iOS 4 experience and it failed miserably. I activated home screen wallpapers and multi-tasking, but had to delete the text and icon drop shadow to make the respiring bearable, and even then it wasn't much so.
Multi-tasking worked great as long as you stuck to keeping stock apps and lighter apps (Facebook, Twitter, etc) in there. Leave TomTom or a large game running in the background and things got even worse performance wise.
My Father in Law got a 3G two years ago (his contract expires in November) on O2 and I only recently jailbroke it for him on 4.3, and it brought back all those bad memories, only it felt even worse being used to the iPhone 4. I made his iPhone far more usable than I ever managed to make mine by installing FakeClockUp and setting it to x10 so you don't see the animations on respring at all ... and he loves it, lol.
Did you read the article? Siri is several iterations ahead of the next best VRS. Whatever you see in Google Voice Commands or MSFT TellMe is primitive by comparison. The Apple PAL will allow you to use natural language and conduct a conversation with you about virtually everything in the iOS. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if you can edit settings with this!
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Does assistant talk back to you? Like "assisstant do the dishes", "no" or is it like "assisstant i had a bad day at work", "tell me about your day". I would upgrade for this..
Does assistant talk back to you? Like "assisstant do the dishes", "no" or is it like "assisstant i had a bad day at work", "tell me about your day". I would upgrade for this.
.BS!!!! People like Apple's stuff because it works!!!! Sexy is what you read from reviewers and bloggers. Their stuff effing works as advertised. I have the 2008 Al unibody macbook and it has never and I mean never crashed or gotten a virus. Knock on wood that none of the electronic parts have failed but that will soon come because sh** don't last forever. But so far this effing laptop is amazing!!!