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I wonder at what point Apple is going to have to start building these kinds of technologies. Purchasing Siri was supposed to be a step in that direction but no
by MatthewPhillips 16y ago
I wonder at what point Apple is going to have to start building these kinds of technologies. Purchasing Siri was supposed to be a step in that direction but nothing has come of it yet.
I worry that it's not in Apple's DNA to build products they can't directly charge for. Apple doesn't do freemium. The hope would be that third parties would pick up the slack.
However I'm not sure that startups can match Google in bigdata. So how will Apple catch up in voice recognition? In mapping (which also uses Android data to improve things like traffic and rerouting)?
- jokermatt999 16y agoI honestly can't see Apple doing speech recognition. It's good, but it's only 99% good, and Apple are known for being perfectionists. I'm not sure about mapping, it also doesn't seem like an Apple product to me, but I can't really articulate why.
- mdemare 16y agoThat is a cliche, and an incorrect one. Take autocorrect for instance - hardly a perfect product. (http://damnyouautocorrect.com/ http://damnyouautocorrect.com/)
- cdavid 16y agoYou sometimes see one or two Apple people at speech conferences, at least it was true 2-3 years ago. I cannot imagine that not to be the case anymore.
- pkulak 16y agoApple will make great speech recognition, maps and email when Google makes a great UI.