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Originally Posted by Gat0r
Go get a 4S and go get a new android hold one in one and and one in the other. Sorry, it's not close. You droid users can argue you want but just try it. Got some catchin' up to do..
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I lead a team of iphone and android developers. We have at least 20 Android phones and plenty of 3Gs and 4s around, too.
So basically I'm around these devices every day.
What you're saying doesn't make any sense. You might want to elaborate on what they need to "catch up" on.
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Originally Posted by Gator_Tom66
You don't have to push a button on the iPhone either. What was that you were laughing about?
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Yes, but you have to have the phone in your hand/presence. Android activates a voice command
from a voice command, which has been particularly helpful for writing emails while working on something else and when getting driving navigation.
So that's what I was laughing about.
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Originally Posted by Gator_Tom66
Natural language processing is easier for people to use. Voice commands were on the other iphones also Siri works substantially better
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Siri definitely works better than the older, limited iphone voice commands, but then those were considered worst of breed back then, so no real accomplishment.
As to NLP, I think that's a fairly trivial matter and it's worth noting that Android still does NLP on most of your commands anyway. If you're blind there's very little difference between saying "Call Jonathan" and "Hey, please call Jonathan" in terms of convenience.
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I guess android needs to fire their marketing departments. You might want to let them know about the $ they are losing.
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Well first, Android doesn't lose money because Android does not make money, per se. This is a large part of the cultural difference between Android and IOS and the reason great, robust features like Google Voice Commands usually surface with little fanfare while WWDC spends 20 minutes on revolutionary copy-and-paste functions and Siri, something that has existed for a long time.
Most people who are only exposed to iPhones don't really get a full picture of what Android is or what it does because there are no huge press events. Which is why you were talking about the revolutionary Siri and how Android had to "catch up."
And I love the iPhone - I personally have one. It's a solid and beautiful tool, and iOS is very polished. But I switched to Android full-time a few years ago and haven't looked back. There's only one thing that iPhones still have a major advantage in and that's music library and playback. Which is becoming an increasingly unimportant item. Hell I just use Spotify now anyway.