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Team dysfunction seems to be a part of it. The 'head' guy for Siri, Dag Kittlaus left Apple to start Viv Labs in about a year since Siri was released. Their ass
by ktta 9y ago
Team dysfunction seems to be a part of it. The 'head' guy for Siri, Dag Kittlaus left Apple to start Viv Labs in about a year since Siri was released. Their assistant Viv, looked pretty okay[1], and was since acquired by Samsung[2].
I feel if he had stayed on, Siri would have been better.
Samsung seems to be trying pretty hard to get people to use it[3]. It's relatively new so I'm interested to see where it goes, especially since it has the lowest market share.
[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI07aeZqeco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI07aeZqeco
[2]: https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/samsung-paid-around-215-million-for-virtual-assistant-startup-viv/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/samsung-paid-around-215-m...
[3]: https://youtu.be/zlesUiYkp_4?t=55s https://youtu.be/zlesUiYkp_4?t=55s
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoNot to mention Williamson shit-talking the Siri team to this reporter: "Williamson denies the accusations that he slowed Siri development down and instead cast blame on Siri's creators. 'It was slow, when it worked at all,' Williamson said. 'The software was riddled with serious bugs. Those problems lie entirely with the original Siri team, certainly not me.'"
- ktta 9y agoThere's a rebuttal too https://twitter.com/Dagk/status/974047743596404737 https://twitter.com/Dagk/status/974047743596404737
- microtherion 9y agoI remember that Viv got positive press when launched. But how good did it actually become? It seems to me we'd be hearing more about Samsung's voice assistant if Viv did really live up to the hype.
- madeofpalk 9y agoEh. Theranos got “positive press”.