- http://www.imore.com/2012/06/11/eyes...rate-siri-car/
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Looks like siri is coming to some cars. Wonder if its any of the 25 million running qnx.06-11-12 05:17 PMLike 0 - I believe Siri is coming to cars through a connection, either Bluetooth or wired, with an actual iPhone and the cars having a button that activates it.
RIM/QNX have the entire car's "infotainment" system running QNX with all of the car's features communicating with QNX.
Also, QNX is not the only in-car entertainment system, as many manufactures have their own proprietary system.
Siri will NEVER come to a BB10 device as Apple will never let that happen.06-11-12 05:25 PMLike 0 - Aren't Watson and Siri the same thing basically. Both offer voice recognition to answer simple commands using a network to pull in the data from the Web?
Siri is only "amazing" because Apple said so and Watson hasn't been showcased and paraded like SiriLast edited by TW93; 06-11-12 at 05:35 PM. Reason: spelling
06-11-12 05:29 PMLike 0 - yea Watson is more serious & mature then Siri who runs around lifting her skirt to everybody showing them all that she has06-11-12 05:41 PMLike 0
- ThunderbuckRetired ModeratorI don't know exactly how "Eyes Free" is supposed to work, but I'm gathering the driver must have the car connected to his iPhone for it to work.
Yes, QNX's automotive systems currently integrate very well with iPhones. This is NOT "Siri being written for QNX", it's "QNX being written to talk to Siri". Big difference.06-11-12 05:42 PMLike 0 - I don't know exactly how "Eyes Free" is supposed to work, but I'm gathering the driver must have the car connected to his iPhone for it to work.
Yes, QNX's automotive systems currently integrate very well with iPhones. This is NOT "Siri being written for QNX", it's "QNX being written to talk to Siri". Big difference.
RIM will stick to Watson regardless. Thorsten mentioned that RIM changes it's mind too often too late and that is what causes the delays. No need to change everything for a glorified Siri.
Plus, Watson sounds better and more like a personal butler, compared to Siri. I would also accept the name, Nigel.06-11-12 05:47 PMLike 0 - If Apple wants car makers using QNX infotainment to support "Eyes Free", then they really don't have a choice in the matter. It should be very similar to infotainment systems accessing the Pandora app on an iPhone.06-11-12 05:51 PMLike 0
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I don't see any pros to having an "eyes-free" for Siri if Watson is already built in.06-11-12 05:54 PMLike 0 - 06-11-12 05:56 PMLike 0
- I think Watson would be considerably more difficult to scale the way it is implemented. It's more powerful, but handling millions of simultaneous queries is a whole different challenge. The Siri team has struggled with that so far. I'm quite sure Watson would be quite a bit more difficult even than that.06-11-12 07:55 PMLike 0
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Ends up that the male drivers did not like a dude telling them what to do, maybe a female voice would have been more "compliant"!
The "voice" starts about 20 seconds in:
06-11-12 07:58 PMLike 0 - I read today that 75% of the smart phones AT&T sold last quarter were iPhones. Something like 57% of Verizon's smartphone sales were iPhone. When you go to BMW or GM and say I want to work with you to integrate Siri in your cars guess what. If you don't Audi will, or Mercedes, or Chrysler (all names I saw today on the Apple slide). You want to tell those kind of numbers you car doesn't work with the iPhone as well as your competitor's car does? Apparently all of these manufacturers bit into the "wonderful Apple marketing" yet again. Apple knows how to leverage their user base06-11-12 08:18 PMLike 0
- I think Watson would be considerably more difficult to scale the way it is implemented. It's more powerful, but handling millions of simultaneous queries is a whole different challenge. The Siri team has struggled with that so far. I'm quite sure Watson would be quite a bit more difficult even than that.06-11-12 10:05 PMLike 0
- Does anybody actually use Siri? I never see anybody with an Iphone actually using that feature. Most of my friends with Iphones actually turn her off in the settings to save battery power.06-11-12 10:49 PMLike 0
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