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I don't know how Apple can think they will remain competitive with Siri without building a search engine. However, Apple are really bad at executing on cloud s
by croissantswan 6y ago
I don't know how Apple can think they will remain competitive with Siri without building a search engine.
However, Apple are really bad at executing on cloud services of any kind. With any amount of resources there are certain things that company just cannot get right, and search is definitely one of them. I would love to know what it is organizationally that makes them so terrible at web apps and cloud services.
- lucasmullens 6y agoApple doesn't have to own a search engine to use one in Siri. They could pay Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo to provide an API. Companies don't need to merge into one big monopoly to have synergy with each other.
- yellow_postit 6y agoThis is what they do already to power the web results in Siri except the search companies pay Apple.
- martinald 6y agoI think apple has quite a strong reliance on using their own tools and frameworks, which is fine for macOS and iOS as they are both mature, but on web they don't really have anything. The app store still seems to be running on webobjects (at least from URL structure), which hasn't been updated much in the past 10 years.
- fatboy 6y agoTheir developer-facing web stuff is a daily tax on my mental health. I can't imagine how useless an Apple search engine would be.
- yellow_postit 6y agoSpeech Recognition is something I would be more concerned about. Amazon and Google with a decidedly more “liberal” stance on data collection have more raw material to train and validate models on.