Will there ever be something like Apple's Siri available for all platforms?
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December 10th, 2011
Siri was originally to be released for various platforms (iOS, Android, PC, and maybe even Linux and others at some point), but Apple bought the technology and is making it available only on Apple products :-(
I’d love to have something like Siri, but I’m not a big fan of Apple products.
Now that the technology exists, how soon will competitive products come to other platforms?
And will they have the same “irreverent personality” that makes Siri talked about and desired by so many people?
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There’s currently Cluzee, and here a list of alternatives. And many are working to crack Siri so that you can put it on Android, even if you have to download it from some blog and not the App Market.
For actual Siri? I don’t know. Maybe 9 months, maybe 5 years, maybe never…
I realize that actual Siri will be never. Knowing Apple, they’ll never sell Siri to be used on a competitor’s hardware. But how much of a lock does Apple have on the technology itself? Can others make something like Siri without violating Apple’s patents? How close are those alternatives to market?
As something totally different, they’re working on it. None of them are great, but they are close. Maybe a year?
Well, given the fun Apple had trademarking “iPad” in China, and their inability to block the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, I think Apple will have difficulty blocking Siri-like software from non-Apple platforms.
As for “irreverent personality”, pretty much every technological item more complex than a hammer has one. The catch is that Siri™ is one of the few that actually uses language; my ‘85 Corolla has non-linguistic ways to tell me to get fucked.
@jerv Can you expand on that first paragraph? I’m not familiar with these particular technobattles (and this type of gossip is what I guess most people feel about Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher).
1) Hong Kong-based Proview Technology that registered a trademark fir iPad back in 2000, While the Taiwan branch agreed to let Apple use the name, the Chinese branch never signed off on that deal. As for whether Taiwan=China… well, that is a whole other kettle of fish.
2) That is where things get interesting. On the one hand, Apple is suing Samsung for patent infringement; on the other hand, Samsung sells Apple the chips that make an iP[ad/od/hone].
@jerv So, if I’m inferring correctly, either China has to let Apple use the name, or admit that Taiwan isn’t a part of China? And awesome; I love a good “biting the hand that feeds” fight.
Samsung’s sIII has the app “s-voice’ which replicates siri. however according to many youtube tech wiz. They believe that siri performs better that s-voice.
I personally have an iphone 4s and it works perfectly fine, siri is performing impressively.
my personal advice is for you to get the 4s or wait for the iphone 5
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