> In almost all of the things you mentioned, google has the advantage to make a better product. They have an enormous power to train their creation, to achieve

> In almost all of the things you mentioned, google has the advantage to make a better product. They have an enormous power to train their creation, to achieve a higher level in terms of speech recognition and understanding. I'm not saying that they are already there, only that they have what is needed. I'm not sure why you think this. Both Apple and Google probably have vast amounts of unlabeled voice data that they could use to train their speech recognition engines. Just having a product gives you that. Either would need to collect labeled voice data for training purposes, and both have plenty of money to do this. As far as understanding goes, having a shitton of training data may not help all that much. What you really need is a superior algorithm. While one could argue that Google's engineers have more expertise in this regard, NLP isn't really either company's specialty, and Apple can hire smart people too. I think the advantage Google has is that they can do search better. That's basically what this comparison shows. The reason Google Now is faster is that Google does search better. I would think that Google should also be able to get Now to answer harder questions, but this demo doesn't show that, and in that respect I think it's a bit of a disappointment. I was expecting to see Google Now do things Siri can't, but it isn't yet clear that it can.