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I worked at SRI, though not on Siri. (Wish I had; they got a nice payday when it was bought.) Siri was weaker before Apple bought it, because there was only s
by jdmichal 6y ago
I worked at SRI, though not on Siri. (Wish I had; they got a nice payday when it was bought.) Siri was weaker before Apple bought it, because there was only so much they could do with the public APIs. Apple buying it was the best outcome. It allowed Siri to come into its full potential, while at the same time inspiring others to make their own.
- scarface74 6y agoThe same happen with the Workflow app. It was a great app when it was independent but became much better when Apple bought it and integrated it into iOS.
- bsder 6y ago> Siri was weaker before Apple bought it, because there was only so much they could do with the public APIs. Apple buying it was the best outcome. Umm, this is exactly the problem the article talks about. The fact that you had to pay obeisance to Apple to get access to private APIs and data is a failure of the anti-trust mechanisms. The fact that Apple could just buy up Siri without anti-trust mechanisms kicking in meant they can just sit in their castle and let somebody else do the hard work.
- scarface74 6y agoWhy would I trust random third parties with the level of access that Apple has? Should Apple also allow access to the Secure Enclave by third parties? VCs don’t invest in startups to help them build low profit “lifestyle businesses”. They fully expect them to be acquired or rarely become public. Just as an anecdote that we are all familiar with, only two YC companies have gone public — Pagerduty and Dropbox - and Dropbox is still not GAAP profitable. If the governments takes away the ability of companies to get acquired, investments in startups will dry up and $BigTech would be the only ones with money to do research.