The creators of the Android and Windows Phone 7 platforms Siri was subjected to harsh criticism
Makradar Ios / / December 21, 2019
While a growing number of English-speaking users iGadzhetov recognize the uniqueness and usefulness virtual assistant Siri, Executives from Google and Miscrosoft not only criticize this feature iPhone 4S, but refuse to acknowledge it in any way significant.
At the moment, the team working with of Siri, one of the largest in the Apple. And the original personality of the private secretary in the smartphone, as well as a sense of humor, which gives Siri replies to users, even caused the creation of Internet sites that discuss and published comments programs.
Nevertheless, the creators competing with iOS platforms actively criticized Siri. So, senior vice president of mobile division Google's Andy Rubin (Andy Rubin) believes that the smartphone should primarily be a means of communication, not an assistant. People stuck to communicate with other people, and not with their phonesIn his opinion, and should also look at how widespread will be the idea of Siri. However, we must not forget that speech recognition technology is also in the Android operating system, although it is not so advanced.
The head of the Microsoft's mobile division, Andy Lees (Andy Lees), and at all confident that the benefits of Siri bit. He argues that the voice recognition technology in Windows Phone 7 is much steeper, as "works with all Internet", rather than as part of a separate iGadzhetov. (Here, in all probability, it means voice search feature in the Bing in Windows Phone 7.)
It is strange that Fox thinks so limited. It is known fact that Siri allows the user to implement search systems such as Bing, Google and was Yahoo, also under the Resource Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia and Yelp. Regarding the Windows Phone 7 platform, then, according to Fox, there are no plans to introduce the possibility of a person to communicate with the phone.
In any case, while Apple's competitors criticize and question the usefulness and necessity of Siri, millions of consumers prove the opposite with their wallets. On the first weekend after the launch of the new iPhone 4S smartphone purchased 4 million people. Manual Apple believes that the fifth-generation iPhone will beat in the final quarter of all sales records "apple" smartphone.