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I remember a scene in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol where a rich debonair had a tray full of cell phones served to him like a cocktail and he just picked whatever one he liked. That's how I feel with The Woz when he states he loves gadgets and can use up to 10 different phones at a time. He has a disposable income and buys these devices like candy. It is great to have options.
Woz is just a great guy. Perhaps the better human being "Steve" of Apple since he is like the patron saint of uber-geeks at The Valley. Him being a MULTI-platform user and gadget lover knows each phones strengths and weaknesses. He knows certain things that one OS can do better than the other. The iPhones are still great devices, but he knows it isn't the best or perfect at everything it can do. Same can be said with the competition. Woz saying it like it is.
Woz is just a great guy. Perhaps the better human being "Steve" of Apple since he is like the patron saint of uber-geeks at The Valley. Him being a MULTI-platform user and gadget lover knows each phones strengths and weaknesses. He knows certain things that one OS can do better than the other. The iPhones are still great devices, but he knows it isn't the best or perfect at everything it can do. Same can be said with the competition. Woz saying it like it is.
Yep.
"navigate home" on android, so simple and it works perfectly
Or "navigate (address)"
Not sure if "navigate (contact)" works but I imagine it does.
It does work that way. You can say Navigate to (contact) home/work and assuming the said contacts address is in your contacts then it will do it. The google voice system relays on key words to do its taste more so than siri but it seems to do better at getting the words correct. Kind of sad considering the system Apple is using (Nuance) sets the standard in speech to text.
So is googles system. What is your point. That beta tag is wearing very thin on Siri. Beta is apples excuse for blocking it from everything but the 4S but lets face it Siri is not a beta. It just over hyped.
Nuance makes great speech to text software. Apple back end on the other hand is under powered and I would not be surprised if Apple tried to cheap out on it.
If there is one thing I've taken away from Steve Jobs autobiography, it's that Woz is most definitely a good, honest guy who genuinely loves tech.
Naturally he will look at other devices and form his own preferences
I wasn't aware Steve wrote an autobiography!
I've found Siri to be very accurate sometimes and then going into WTF mode a few hours later where it can't even understand very simple sentences.
For example "Find the nearest best buy" seems to work 99% of the time. The one time I tried to demo it to some relatives, it said "I'm sorry I don't know what <gibberish but french sounding phrase> means".
Anyway if the Woz says something is better, it probably is!
For example "Find the nearest best buy" seems to work 99% of the time. The one time I tried to demo it to some relatives, it said "I'm sorry I don't know what <gibberish but french sounding phrase> means".
Anyway if the Woz says something is better, it probably is!
Woz loves technology and isn't afraid to try new things even if it's the competition. he allot more laid back then Steve was but if roles were switch I doubt Apple would be where it is now. I also think that the Jailbrake community is not a big deal to Woz.
I have to disagree with you. I find any sort of video consumption to be lacking primarily due to the tiny screen size. Especially if you watch something with widescreen formatting...doesn't go well with that 4:3 aspect ratio.
People throw this excuse around way too much. Apple touts Siri as one of their headlining features in the 4s, the whole beta excuse is pretty stale.
I don't think anyone outside of the those that are entrenched in the iphone camp is all that impressed with the jailbreak community. While it is great for iphone users, in the end they for the most part add functionality that you should already be able to get out of the box (and that you get out of the box on many other devices). That being said, I do think the jailbreak community serves an important role for iphone users, otherwise it would be a severely handicapped device IMO.
iOS does, its called MapQuest and it provides Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation (I use it all the time, its very accurate and reliable, oh and also Free).
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mapquest-4-mobile/id316126557?mt=8
Apple touts it as a defining feature on a production phone........ Call it an Alpha release if you want..... it will always be compared to the competition no matter what anyone says about it.
No where near as good or integrated as Googles Nav, for one thing you can have various views from 3D to birdseye just like a normal cars Nav system, you have voice guided turn by turn with advance notice, and the rerouting of a course is so much quicker then any other Nav app I've tried especially if you get off a highway and have to drive a bunch of random streets to get to a food place or whatever like I just did heading to Tampa lol, and it's automatic rerouting ability with heavy traffic is top notch. I've used mapquest nav on the iPhone, as well as Waze and other paid apps like telenav and navigon. I still much prefer the Google Nav integration on Android.
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I didn't say it was better, but you asked:
I was just pointing out that yes it does. That is all.
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Now, that I think about it, it's funny Woz mentions this. Maybe it is a hint that iOS 6 will have Apple Maps (the huge selling point in ios 6) and Siri 2.0. It's obvious this is coming. I remember an article a while back about Apple Maps. We all know the maps app in the iPhone needs updating, it's so blah right now, plus we haven't had firmware updates for Siri. Siri will probably be much better later on this year once Apple launches its iTV, etc. I think a lot of people are looking forward to being Apple to use Siri to launch any application or do something like, "Please restart my phone."
Now, that I think about it, it's funny Woz mentions this. Maybe it is a hint that iOS 6 will have Apple Maps (the huge selling point in ios 6) and Siri 2.0. It's obvious this is coming. I remember an article a while back about Apple Maps. We all know the maps app in the iPhone needs updating, it's so blah right now, plus we haven't had firmware updates for Siri. Siri will probably be much better later on this year once Apple launches its iTV, etc. I think a lot of people are looking forward to being Apple to use Siri to launch any application or do something like, "Please restart my phone."
I wasn't aware Steve wrote an autobiography!
I thought I might have gotten the terms mixed up...