John Gruber is going to love this one.
Indeed. He also loved the Galaxy Note 7 beating iPhone 7 with earlier launch.
It was early all right.
Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
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Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#22Unfortunately I think it's pretty obvious why they were acquired, so 99% skeptical of their future. They were probably acquired because: 1. They realized just owning the software platform is very limiting (For example they can't compete with Apple no matter how good they are. Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps but will never be #1 map app on iOS because people always choose th…
> Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps
No it isn't, they are basically the same for 90% of users.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#23Unfortunately I think it's pretty obvious why they were acquired, so 99% skeptical of their future. They were probably acquired because: 1. They realized just owning the software platform is very limiting (For example they can't compete with Apple no matter how good they are. Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps but will never be #1 map app on iOS because people always choose th…
> Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps No it isn't, they are basically the same for 90% of users.
Map data and quality varies depending on your location.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#24It's very disappointing that Apple got stuck with Siri and does not really improve on what they have. I assume part of it has to do with the fact that they are very careful about customer data and a lot of what makes assistants useful is having as much data in the cloud as possible. Still. As an iOS user I'm very jealous of what exists on other platforms now.
Siri has been getting better ever since its release. Have you used it in iOS 10? It now has 3rd party integration with Uber and Lyft, Venmo, and many other apps. Its reliability and usability have drastically improved since Siri 1.0 on the iPhone 4S.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#25Unfortunately I think it's pretty obvious why they were acquired, so 99% skeptical of their future. They were probably acquired because: 1. They realized just owning the software platform is very limiting (For example they can't compete with Apple no matter how good they are. Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps but will never be #1 map app on iOS because people always choose th…
> Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps No it isn't, they are basically the same for 90% of users.
I wish apple gave me a fair choice. I do prefer Google maps but i keep also using stupid apple maps because it keeps coming up.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#26It's very disappointing that Apple got stuck with Siri and does not really improve on what they have. I assume part of it has to do with the fact that they are very careful about customer data and a lot of what makes assistants useful is having as much data in the cloud as possible. Still. As an iOS user I'm very jealous of what exists on other platforms now.
Siri has been getting better ever since its release. Have you used it in iOS 10? It now has 3rd party integration with Uber and Lyft, Venmo, and many other apps. Its reliability and usability have drastically improved since Siri 1.0 on the iPhone 4S.
No integration with the apps i care about: spotify, google maps, gmail and many others.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#27I wonder if Samsung would ever put this on their Android Phones. I am confident it will not be able to compete with Google Now on the same device. In addition to founders, Viv got a good number of early Siri engineers. From this and other hints I gather its internals are similar to first few versions of Siri. For example, they outsource the Speech component (something Apple still does for several languages). A conseq…
I agree it is unlikely that it would be able to compete with Google Now. I see Samsung having more success putting this into their appliances.
And they have their smart watches too.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#28I'm amazed that the founders didn't have some sort of non-compete agreement here. Excited that it's a more extensible digital assistant though. I think the reason why I like Alexa the most out of the services right now is that it feels like the easiest to add new functionality too. Hopefully this will pave the way for more open ai assistants.
California doesn't believe in non-competes. The state believes that competition is in the public interest and enforcing non-competes would be counter to that.
But what about patents?
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#29Unfortunately I think it's pretty obvious why they were acquired, so 99% skeptical of their future. They were probably acquired because: 1. They realized just owning the software platform is very limiting (For example they can't compete with Apple no matter how good they are. Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps but will never be #1 map app on iOS because people always choose th…
> Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps No it isn't, they are basically the same for 90% of users.
I'm not talking about the content. Talking about the user experience. It does suck, and I'm not even an Apple hater.
I have given up on using the default map for searching anything. Of course the map content itself is the same, but what good is a mobile map if you search for a coffee shop around you in New York and it gives you some grocery store in Scandinavia? I would be forgiving if this happened rarely, but to me it happened very often. I have 4 iDevices and they all have the same problem. This never happens with Google maps.
Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri
#30Unfortunately I think it's pretty obvious why they were acquired, so 99% skeptical of their future. They were probably acquired because: 1. They realized just owning the software platform is very limiting (For example they can't compete with Apple no matter how good they are. Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps but will never be #1 map app on iOS because people always choose th…
1. Agreed. It's literally the reason we're building our own hardware. You can't build the future on the current hardware platforms produced by the major players. We're working on the shift.