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No, you predicted natural language personal assistants that were integrated into your phone. Demos of those already existed in 2007, and natural language assist

by jjcm 15y ago

No, you predicted natural language personal assistants that were integrated into your phone. Demos of those already existed in 2007, and natural language assistants have been in the works since the late 80s. Here's a paper from 1993 that describes a lot of the Siri functionality that exists today: http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/people/lisa/interchi93.html http://www.media.mit.edu/speech/people/lisa/interchi93.html Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together that already existed and added a bit of shine and sparkle.

rjurney 15y ago
Well, actually I predicted that: 1) The iPhone would become the new dominant computing platform. 2) There would be a dev kit for more tightly integrated applications. 3) A Siri equivalent would be on the iPhone, possibly delivered by a startup or Apple itself. 4) That this would be happening soon, in a subsequent version of the same device, or I would build it myself. While this isn't magic, it is a pretty good prediction, and a lot more specific than what you just stated. Finally, if this was all so obvious, why didn't anyone else predict it?
- tatsuke95 15y ago
  Have to say you were pretty close, but: >"1) The iPhone would become the new dominant computing platform." By what measure? >"why didn't anyone else predict it?" Absence of evidence =/= evidence of absence.
  - rjurney 15y ago
    Now you proved that you didn't read the prediction. GOTO line 1 of the comment and answer your own question.
crander 15y ago
>Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together The original iPhone was nothing new component-wise but something wonderful is summation. This has been Apple's gift. Lots of folks can dream up and write a paper about super-phone, it's a top-notch engineering company, living in the real world of engineering trade-offs, that can actually build and sell millions.

by jjcm 15y ago

rjurney 15y ago

Well, actually I predicted that: 1) The iPhone would become the new dominant computing platform. 2) There would be a dev kit for more tightly integrated applications. 3) A Siri equivalent would be on the iPhone, possibly delivered by a startup or Apple itself. 4) That this would be happening soon, in a subsequent version of the same device, or I would build it myself. While this isn't magic, it is a pretty good prediction, and a lot more specific than what you just stated. Finally, if this was all so obvious, why didn't anyone else predict it?

tatsuke95 15y ago
Have to say you were pretty close, but: >"1) The iPhone would become the new dominant computing platform." By what measure? >"why didn't anyone else predict it?" Absence of evidence =/= evidence of absence.
- rjurney 15y ago
  Now you proved that you didn't read the prediction. GOTO line 1 of the comment and answer your own question.

crander 15y ago

>Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together The original iPhone was nothing new component-wise but something wonderful is summation. This has been Apple's gift. Lots of folks can dream up and write a paper about super-phone, it's a top-notch engineering company, living in the real world of engineering trade-offs, that can actually build and sell millions.