[citation][nom]SirGCal[/nom]How about paying attention to the @#$%ing road instead of your phone when behind the wheel. That's the biggest problem today is people are too 'preoccupied' to properly operate a vehicle. Which is why auto accidents are one of the highest causes of death... Phones and all they distract us with contribute to that effect... Honestly, they should make an interruption system to block phone use in a moving vehicle... Hands-free voice calls only...Ya, ya'll sit there and say 'pisha'... But when you're burring your own mother or best friend, as I have, due to someone who was 'on the phone... bla bla bla'... Only then, when it's too late, will you understand...As for SIRI, Android has Vlingo... I've used both and see very little differences other than SIRI has caused me more problems with it trying to 'guess' what I want it really to do. Some people say SIRI has Vlingo beat and I do not understand this argument... So the software (which is now owned by a company publicly known for tracking user information... so...) tries to guess what you really meant. Though personally I don't like it over trigger-word type commands so you 'know' what it's going to do instead of hoping or assuming, it won't be long before others (Vlingo) follow suit with the more generic phrase recognition. SIRI's biggest problem is Apple bought them and now the Android version is canceled... Honestly, this is a huge money loss and even possibly a total app killer in the end. If they at least had a port to Android, then they could make the sales from those devices also as well as increase their market-share instead of just the lower-market-share iOS devices anyhow. Especially for $200 million?!? You want to make that $ back, not potentially lose it cause you locked a product down to your own greed-filled products...Sure, buying SIRI might have been a good move for Apple, but not locking it down... Plus, now that gives the competition like Vlingo, who will most likely catch up and/or surpass in due time, an edge with greater market-share with combined Android, iOS, Berry and Win support. In the end, if they don't change their ways, it'll be just another failure in the Apple history book...[/citation]
1 - Siri removes the need to look at the screen whilst driving, much like hands-free sets, which have been shown to massively increase safety. People will try to text when they're driving regardless, this gives them a better way to do that. Just like you can talk to people in your car whilst driving. Do you want to ban that too?
2 - Siri may have been worth a lot more had they not sold to Apple, but surely that means Apple got excellent value for money? An excellent strategic decision, too, given that now it can't be used on Android. Protecting their users from a similar move from other companies.
3 - Vlingo is not the equivalent of Siri:
http
/www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/siri-understands-intent-beats-google-voice-actions-tellme-and-vlingo/6780
http
/www.pcworld.com/article/242198/apples_siri_vs_androids_voice_actions_feature_showdown.html
Pretty much unanimous over the internet that Siri is far more advanced.
As for claims that the phone will 'catch up' in the future, surely that's proof that Apple is leading the way on this one.. you can't catch someone up if you're already level with them.
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