Well, Apple bought Siri (yes, the entire company) for the sole purpose of defeating competition.
They will now be able to claim this technology as their own, and they will NOT be making an Android version.
Fugging sellouts...
You should save your anger. This is nothing new and with the sale of Siri to Apple, it is Apple's technology.
No, Apple did not invent it. Siri is a complicated technology and there are lots of heavy hitters and brilliance behind the technology and its future development. Those that developed Siri did not invent everything; they relied upon much of the work of others. As I recall, DARPA, various universities, and others are either directly involved or provided research Apple uses to further develop Siri.
Larger companies have been purchasing smaller (or equal or larger or same size) companies for a very long time and for many different reasons. Sometimes it is to knock out competition and sometimes it is to acquire technology. You make it sound like some horrible thing.
Not at all.
What Apple did was no different than what many corporations have done forever. I am sure Google bought companies just for their technology. And Android came from Google.
I worked for a company that was bought just for our proprietary technology. There was a time when Apple was small and in our market segment, we absolutely ruled supreme.
Apple should own Siri. It gives them total control and since Apple has plenty of development cash, they can build Siri into something cool. And for all you know, Apple has plans to develop other cool products based upon Siri. Not sure if the folks at Siri are upset. After Apple's check arrives, I'll bet there was/is a party.
So what if there is no Android version? Does everything Apple do need to be also done for Android? Nothing to prevent Android devs from comming up with something like Siri.
Siri was once an App Store app but Apple removed it. I completely ignored and dismissed it. Apple came along and made it a hot property.
My theory is Siri is one of those applications that will cause many people to purchase the iPhone. Apple is great at mass marketing. Not so sure Android can compete because most people will only see Siri and even if Android out does Apple, it might not matter.
