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I wrote a post last night (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3069745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3069745) analyzing Tom Gruber, Siri's Co-Founder, CTO
by IanMikutel 15y ago
I wrote a post last night (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3069745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3069745) analyzing Tom Gruber, Siri's Co-Founder, CTO, and VP of Design, original Siri keynote in 2008.
The post got pretty popular on HN and I had 5 key questions/predictions, feel free to read all the details (and lots of quotes I transcribed straight from Gruber's video) but now I'll summarize my thoughts quickly below:
1. Very few languages for Siri (where's Spanish?)
2. No API announced for developers to add tasks to Siri
3. It's still named...Siri? What happened to Assistant? I guess it is quicker to say in practice...
4. Siri's in BETA? Is this the first time Apple's released a major iPhone feature with a beta sticker?
5. No payments integration with Siri mentioned. Can it buy stuff for me? as Gruber talked about in 2008?
6. No Facebook partnership for social knowledge on Siri, or even iPad app.
- mercurio 15y agoI don't think Siri is in beta. I think only the 'voice dictation for arbitrary text input' feature is in beta.
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- revorad 15y agoSo I guess you're not that fascinated any more, Ian? Maybe now you understand my cynical reactions to your original post :-P