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It may be by accent, but I have a horrible time with Siri. For example I say "where am I?" to get my location on a map, and the response I get from Siri is "I don't know what you mean by "Where amay" Would you like to search the web for "Where amay." Speech recognition needs to become more "intelligent" in my opinion. It's nothing like the Apple commercials at all. People from certain parts of the country with different accents, I'm sure have a hard time with Siri. Anyways Google Droid has an application that users can download called "Iris" that is their answer to "Siri" that is probably a bigger threat to Apple than another app you can download on your iPhone.
Now, if Siri becomes standard in iPhone going forward, Watson is not a threat to Apple ny more than if someone wants to download a calculator app and not use the one that comes standard in iPhone, or replace any other app that comes standard in iPhone, in my opinion. When it comes to Watson, I'd be interested in knowing if it integrates into the phone as effectively as Siri. For example, if I can get Watson to recognize "where am I" will it tell where I am on the map feature integrated in iPhone?
In any event I think Watson is a non-issue for the AAPL investor.
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tons of companies are working on voice recognition. I have to think that microsoft and google are much more formidable competitors than AT&T on that front.
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Except that AT&T has been doing it a long time. Watson is just the repackaging of their technology for voice response systems.
The impression I got is that their initial focus was not so much the system assistant role of Siri, but integration with individual apps, thus allowing it to be deployed with any app on any phone, not just those platforms which had adopted it. Nothing to keep a phone company from providing N apps with the phone that all use it, of course.
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