Android's Andy Rubin is not a fan of Siri

This is fantastic news for Apple investors. Android has apparently given up.

I guess the Android Marketplace should be taken down then. I mean most of the apps in there aren't for communicating for people right? It has games, themes, e-comm apps, etc. Those aren't used for communicating with people. Maybe Andy needs to realize that the phone has evolved or he is pissed that Google didn't buy Siri themselves.

Google will get there with the voice interaction - after all it has had its own Google Voice product around for a while now doing basic stuff. It just needed Apple to think through the use cases, tell Google what to do and how to do it (Wolfram Alpha) and Google's engineers can now scurry away and work on the implementation.

Let's not forget that the Google meme is a company of *engineers* not a company of *designers* or *architects*. Google needs someone else to do the blue sky thinking - be it coming up with the iPhone, FaceBook, webpage index and search, or whatever.

But once there is a good quality design publicly unveiled for what people want, Google can take that design away and copy it and do a very creditable job with their own implementation. Even, in some cases, making it work better than the original (web search).

Kelly, I believe Siri uses "speech recognition" not voice recognition.

Pretty funny :p
He is aware he is talking about smartphones right? The evolution of the PDA, the Personal Digital Assistant?
Heck the definition of a smartphone is basically a Phone with PDA capabilities, as such, a smart phone...

But hey, if this really is his stance on smartphones it does at least explain why Android calendar and mail functionality is so bad in comparison to iOS :p

He is just trying to build the hype up so people line up at Google stores around the world and buy 4 million Galaxy S Nexus phones the first week.

Oh Wait...

I'm going to laugh my ass off when Google comes out with their own version of Siri.

This was like Michael Dell after apple introduces colored iMacs, that they were ridiculous and that companies and consumers wanted plain colored boxes... Then went on to introduce lines of colored computers. This is why in medicine we are taught to never say "never", as things change, and you look stupid when you are completely and unswayingly definite...

Wow, he really invented a reason to hate Siri. That is so ridiculous.

What a bunch of malarkey from Andy Rubin. Siri on the iPhone is just the start of the voice controlled lifestyle that will roll out over the next few years. With Siri on the iPhone, it will be able to talk to your Mac, Apple TV and eventually other devices as other manufacturers come on board. Imagine telling Siri to turn on the air conditioner as you're driving home, order dinner to be delivered just after you get home or to start the coffee pot at 6:00 AM so it will be ready when you wake up. The iPhone is the PERFECT portable computer for your digital AI assistant because it can always be carried with you. It has the potential to keep you in control of many devices and functions and is the gateway to the future human/computer interface. Rubin is just upset that he didn't work out the technology first for Android. He's putting a negative spin on Siri because by lessening the technology, he's hoping people won't think so badly that Android ain't got it!