Post Tagged with: "Siri"

Why Siri Won’t Go Beyond the iPhone–For Now
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Why Siri Won’t Go Beyond the iPhone–For Now

Since Apple launched the Siri app on the iPhone 4S last fall, there has been a widespread assumption that Siri’s voice-driven semantic search might soon find its way to other Apple products. At the top of everyone’s list was the still notional Apple television, bolstered by the belief that Steve Jobs’s deathbed claim to have [...]

Published by on April 11, 2012 4:49 am
Future iPads Will Cannibalize TVs
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Future iPads Will Cannibalize TVs

As ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out, we know absolutely “nothing” about the iPad 3 right now.  While pontificating about future Apple products is a lot of fun, drives many page views and makes web site editors very happy, it’s  just a pontification factory.  At some point in the near future, the iPad will have a better display and will be lighter [...]

Published by on February 14, 2012 6:47 am
Voice Control Will Disrupt Living Room Electronics
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Voice Control Will Disrupt Living Room Electronics

In what seems to be a routine in high-tech journalism and social media now is to speculate on what Apple will do next. The latest and greatest rumor is that Apple will develop an HDTV set. I wrote back in September that Apple should build aTV given the lousy experience and Apple’s ability to fix [...]

Published by on December 20, 2011 7:39 am
Why Apple Had To Release Siri Half-Baked
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Why Apple Had To Release Siri Half-Baked

Siri has been having a bad week. Gizmodo’s Mat Honan called Apple’s voice-response service “a lie.” Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, who rarely has bad things to say about Apple efforts, said it “isn’t up to Apple’s usual level of fit and finish, not by a long shot.”  And my colleague Patrick Moorhead tweeted that inconsistency was leading him [...]

Published by on December 7, 2011 3:00 am
When Siri Becomes A Member of the Family
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When Siri Becomes A Member of the Family

Siri is much more than just a useful feature for Apple’s iPhone 4S. Siri is also incredibly strategic for Apple. I have written quite a bit on the subject of how software platforms become sticky. The point I continually emphasize is that we who study the industry need to understand “ecosystems” more than products. What [...]

Published by on November 3, 2011 3:33 am
Why Google and Microsoft Hate Siri
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Why Google and Microsoft Hate Siri

As I watched Andy Rubin’s interview at the WSJ D Asia conference I became highly intrigued by the comments he made about Apple’s Siri. Rubin told Walt Mossberg “ I don’t believe your phone should be an assistant…Your phone is a tool for communicating,” he said, “You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should [...]

Published by on October 24, 2011 3:24 am
The Era of Personal Computing
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The Era of Personal Computing

I have adopted a philosophy in my analysis over the past few years where I distinguish between personal computing and personalized computing. In a post a few months ago, I wrote about these differences and pointed out that because of the differences in personal and personalized computing the Post PC Era will happen in two [...]

Published by on October 18, 2011 6:37 am
Why Siri is Strategic for Apple
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Why Siri is Strategic for Apple

Now that I have had some time to work with the new iPhone, and especially the new Siri Voice technology, I have been able to form a couple of opinions about this products market impact. As I mentioned in a previous post, from a big picture stand point, Apple’s use of voice and speech as [...]

Published by on October 17, 2011 8:23 am
Nuance Exec on iPhone 4S, Siri, and the Future of Speech
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Nuance Exec on iPhone 4S, Siri, and the Future of Speech

Though the iPhone 4S appears nearly identical to the current iPhone 4, it is, as my colleague Tim Bajarin points out a revolutionary device because of its voice-based Siri interface. For the past 20 years, we humans have learned to point and click, but this has never been a natural way to interact with our [...]

Published by on October 10, 2011 9:09 am
Why We Witnessed History at the iPhone 4S Launch
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Why We Witnessed History at the iPhone 4S Launch

While some people were disappointed that Apple did not introduce the iPhone 5, most pretty much missed the significance of the event and the fact that they were witnessing history. In 1984, when Steve Jobs introduced the Mac, he did something quite historic. He introduced the Mac’s graphical user interface. But he actually topped himself [...]

Published by on October 10, 2011 3:54 am