Funny, you guys told me Android already did everything Siri did! I’ll bet that even after it’s released, it will still be just a poor imitation.
Google’s response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year
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“I wrote about Google’s response to Apple’s Siri voice assistant several months ago and over the last couple weeks I received further details about the secret project. For starters it is codenamed Majel, which comes from Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, better known as the voice of the Federation Computer from Star Trek.
Majel is an evolution of Google’s Voice Actions that is currently available on most Android phones with the addition of natural language processing. Where Voice Actions required you to issue specific commands like “send text to…” or “navigate to…”, Majel will allow you to perform actions in your natural language similar to how Siri functions. . . .” [continues]
Nicu 7:14 am on December 14, 2011 157 days ago Reply
This is probably the first time that seeing a piece of software does not immediately tell you how it’s done (yet, it took 11 years to have Windows ’95 as a poor copy of the Macintosh OS). And it’s so hard to make it good enough, that the details the followers (GOOG, MSFT) will get wrong will be obvious even to ignorant cheapskates.
It was obvious for anyone with a fraction of critical thinking that declarations from the slavish serial copiers that they had the functionality for x years were just red herrings, meant to cover their scrambling in the background to copy it.
JPWatkins 3:12 am on December 15, 2011 157 days ago Reply
Well as I always say, “There’s a world of difference between *features* and *functionality.* Features sound good on paper and all through the design, specification, and manufacturing process. But functionality is something that can only be sensed and appreciated in actual use.”