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Former Apple Insider: “Steve Would Have Lost His Mind Over Siri”
Tim Cook has been profiled in this month’s issue of Fortune. Cook is being portrayed as a leader that is approachable. When a group of investors visited Apple as part of a “bus tour,” Apple CEO Tim Cook actually showed up to the meeting and answered questions diligently. This is something that Steve Jobs never did. As CEO, Cook also issued a dividend to shareholders and created a program to match employee gifts to charity. Cook also sits randomly with Apple employees in the cafeteria at lunchtime whereas Jobs typically dined with design chief Jonathan Ive. This is a small difference that employees have seen in terms of interacting with their CEO. In terms of shortcomings at the company since Jobs passed away is Siri. Siri is still in “beta” mode and it’s response time is considered slow. The servers and software powering Siri are inadequate. “People are embarrassed by Siri,” stated a former insider at the company. “Steve would have lost his mind over Siri.”
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IBM Does Not Want Employees To Use Siri At Work
If you have an iPhone 4S and work for IBM, you may want to avoid using Siri. Siri is the virtual assistant built into the iPhone 4S. Siri transmits everything you say to a data center in Maiden, North Carolina. IBM CIO Jeanette Horan said that Siri has been banned because “the company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.” Apple primarily collects all of this information to help improve responses by Siri. Recently I wrote a list of the funniest Siri responses, which clearly shows how inaccurate the virtual assistant can be to search queries. The American Civil Liberties Union issued a warning a couple of months ago because some of the data that Siri collects can be very personal.
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TOP 80 FUNNY SIRI RESPONSES
Siri (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) is an intelligent personal assistant. The application uses a natural language user interface, but it is not 100% accurate. Siri responses have become a meme, but Apple is currently dealing with a lawsuit over the inaccuracy of the service. Below is a gallery of over 80 of funny Siri responses:
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Apple HDTV Believed To Have Siri, FaceTime, and AirPlay
CultofMac.com has a source that has seen the Apple HDTV set in action. According to their source, the Apple HDTV currently looks like Apple’s LED-backlit Cinema Displays, but is much bigger. It also has a built-in iSight camera for making free FaceTime video conference calls. It would also have Siri to help you find TV and movie content.
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WATCH: Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel Starring In New Apple Commercials
Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel are now starring in two new iPhone 4S commercials. The commercials feature the two celebrities asking Siri for help explaining how to cook and to order tomato soup for delivery on a rainy day. Check out the videos below (note: volume may have to be up to really hear it):
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Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Samuel L. Jackson, Siri, Zooey Deschanel
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About 87% Of Apple iPhone 4S Use Siri At Least Once Per Month
Research shows that 87% of Apple iPhone 4S users have used at least one feature of the Siri virtual assistant monthly. However most usage is across a limited set of functions. Consulting group Parks Associates surveyed 482 owners of the iPhone 4S to come up with the data.
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Google’s Siri Competitor Is Rumored To Be Called Assistant
Siri is the voice-activated assistant built into the iPhone 4S. It has been reported that Siri will eventually be rolled into almost all of Apple’s newest upcoming devices including their television product. Google is said to be working on a Siri competitor of their own currently known as “Assistant” by employees working on that project. Google Assistant was previously code-named “Majel.”
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Why Siri Is On The iPhone 4S, But Not The iPhone 4
Now we know why Siri is on the iPhone 4S, but not the iPhone 4. Stephen Shankland at CNET reported that it has to do with Apple’s partnership with Audience. The Apple A5 processor has noise-reduction circuitry licensed from Audience.
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Google Removes Fake Siri Android App
Not only has Google has removed the fake Siri app from the Android Market, the company deleted all of the apps from the developer’s account. If you search for Siri on the Android Market, there appears to be other clones, but the Siri for Android app is no longer found. The Siri for Android app used the same icon that Apple uses for Siri on the iPhone 4S. The Siri for Android app simply serves as a shortcut for Google’s Voice Actions. [TNW]
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Fake Siri App Gets Added To Android
A company called Official App has added an app to the Android Market called Siri for Android. The funny thing about this app is that it simply opens the “Google Voice Actions” app within Android. Clearly this is a gag app and fortunately it is free. This app has been installed on between 1,000-5,000 phones. I doubt Google will remove the app since this is the type of thing an Android owner can use to show off if an iPhone 4S owner says “Look my phone has Siri!” [The Next Web]
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