Android Developers Create Siri Rival "Iris" in 8 Hours

[Guest]

Same here rahillo, Iris amounts to nothing more than random guesses and amusing responses, with no hint of depth, or any specifics or sources to backup replies - a cute, yet useless gimmick. I have a magic Eight-Ball, from the 60s, which does almost as well. Siri, OTOH, is well designed, implemented, and highly functional, on many levels. Perhaps, spelling Siri backward is revealing, in regard to comparability.

 

[Martin9630]

Hm, anyone gonna try and get Iris and Siri to talk to each other?

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]lp231[/nom]Siri, Iris? Pure genius!Iris sounds better, Siri is more like Slurry, Slurpee, Slushee[/citation]

This whole imitation things kill innovations... Really Im not an Apple fanboy or so but
Even the name iris is reverse of siri.

 

[nicodemus_mm]

[citation][nom]foddermail86[/nom]I honestly don't know why we have such praise for theft. If it were a book, it would be plagiarism. If it were patented it would be, oh wait it is. Can we just start locking these jackasses up? I am sure financial penalties will amount to nothing. Why would anyone do anything innovative with such knockoff artists? Anyway, the art is to do something innovative, with quality. I doubt Iris accomplishes either.[/citation]

I don't know whether to pity you or laugh at you. You're talking about locking up "jackasses" that supposedly stole an idea for Apple. You wouldn't happen to know who said "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas," would you? He started a little computer company... and had a thing for fruit.

Anyway, going by your logic the developers of the iPod, iPad, iPhone, iMac, iTunes, etc. are jackasses and should be locked up. After all, they're just a different interpretation of a previous product. Kinda like almost every product on the market today.

 

[lockhrt999]

[citation][nom]tomfreak[/nom]So Andriod has make the move, when is Microsoft's turn to give these feature to windows 8?[/citation]

We already have Dragon natural voice recognition and it does a lot more than SIRI or IRIS.

 

[tehinternetguy]

Oh man, I wish I was a chick making easy money looking pretty, instead of slowly rotting away in an office cubicle, where no-one appreciates you and treats you like a subhuman. Oh yeah, umm, Iris looks like fun.

 

[digiex]

This is why Jobs want to destroy Android, Apple they make apps for money, Android devs make it or fun...

 

[chronicbint]

Quite interesting how annoying droidfags are, more so than iSheep.

 

[watcha]

Kevin Parrish is so obviously such a bitter Apple hater - sorry but it's all over every one of his crying articles.

From what I'm hearing, this project took over a year and is nowhere near as good as Siri.

As for the guy who said this is down to 'open source' - sorry but I don't know if you could be any more stupid. The source code hasn't even been released yet, the source code for 3.0 was NEVER released. Developers can develop for any platform.

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]This is why Jobs want to destroy Android, Apple they make apps for money, Android devs make it or fun...[/citation]

And which of those will be supported long term?

Things have to be sustainable to be good. No money, no sustainability.

 

[MrSiko]

That AI is already smart enough to be a lifelong companion to any stupid human.

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

I want to see Iris and Siri have a conversation together :lol:

 

[killerclick]

Android developers are doing a disservice to the platform by doing a half-assed copy of a useless product. If you can't do it really well, don't do it at all.

I'm very disappointed in Android as it is, especially on tablets. Each new update introduces as many new issues as it fixes, the UI is sluggish and performance is rather poor on all but the most expensive models. Including half baked features to a system that needs to fix the basics is only going to erode Android's reputation further.

 

[hoofhearted]

Yep, lawsuit coming from the Apple douchebags.

http/www.mobiledia.com/news/105204.html

 

[old crank]

It would be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison of Siri and Iris code. There's one way to produce a new product very quickly.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Now give it GLadOs's voice and humour, I will happily commence testing,
and then I wil have cake
Moto

 

[CPU666d1]

Hey "weicc" you sure have some weird stuff for sale that looks so worthless to buy.

 

[john_e]

[citation][nom]foddermail86[/nom]I honestly don't know why we have such praise for theft. If it were a book, it would be plagiarism. If it were patented it would be, oh wait it is. Can we just start locking these jackasses up? I am sure financial penalties will amount to nothing. Why would anyone do anything innovative with such knockoff artists? Anyway, the art is to do something innovative, with quality. I doubt Iris accomplishes either.[/citation]

Apple buys Siri
Invading Google's territory
By Edward Berridge
Thu Apr 29 2010, 11:05

DESIGNER OF SHINY GADGETS Apple is pressing its invasion of Google's turf by buying Siri, a company that makes a mobile application that allows users to perform web searches using voice commands.

Siri is a start-up based in San Jose and it markets itself as a virtual personal assistant for the Iphone and the Ipod Touch.

Users can speak commands like "send a taxi to my house" or "get me a girlfriend who is just as fanatical about Apple as I am" and other impossible tasks.

The software uses GPS and speech-recognition technology, and the application translates the commands and uses search algorithms to find answers.

Siri raised $24 million from investors, including Menlo Ventures and Li Ka-Shing, a Chinese billionaire who has also invested in Facebook.

It is looking like Jobs Mob is hoping that it can kick Google's search service off the Iphone, the Ipod Touch and the Ipad.

However Google has also made large investments in voice command search, location-based search and advertising, and in visual recognition search.

Hate to burst your Apple bubble your living in, but Apple didn't invent Siri they bought the company. So please refrain from saying that, that is an Apple innovation.

 

[john_e]

[citation][nom]john_e[/nom]Hate to burst your Apple bubble your living in, but Apple didn't invent Siri they bought the company. So please refrain from saying that, that is an Apple innovation.[/citation]


Oh yeah, you may want to listen what your Lord Darth Vader (aka Steve Jobs) says

http/www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CW0DUg63lqU

 

[maddad]

So think about it. Apple innovates Android copies. just an observation