When my new iPhone 4S arrived, I couldn’t stop playing with Siri, the new iPhone voice-recognition “virtual assistant” that was introduced with the device. According to Apple, Siri is an iPhone feature that lets me use my voice to send messages, place phone calls, schedule meetings and more. It understands what I say, knows what I mean, and even talks back. It’s not bullet-proof and has some glitches – but it really works!
As an example of the entire marketplace, AT&T has evolved from having a walled garden approach to distributing content to mobiles to basically opening up the fortress to anyone with a store, including the forthcoming Amazon App Store.
Now that the carrier ‘walled garden’ is fading, a new set of gardens (app stores run by the makers of the operating systems) are popping up, ready to be walled.
The Apple iTunes App Store is the dominant smartphone application store for many reasons. One often overlooked reason is the fact that Apple launched the store with a consumer base in the millions : iPod users!
I stopped into the local Apple store today to mess around with an iPad. I would like to buy one, and when I bring it up with my wife she says “you dont need another toy”. And she has a point, its like a new toy. And I say this because I have truly found [...]
Despite numerous lectures from Google to hte contrary, Android smartphones are in fact
Microsoft is slowly becoming irrelevant in the most promising computing marketplace (smartphones). Apple, RIM, Google and others dominate the airwaves. What is going on in Redmond?
Apple has a lot of good things going for itself these days, and the success of the iPhone and the App Store is still astounding to me. More astounding, though, is the fact that no company (or companies) have been able to offer up a real alternative to that combo.
RIM, Nokia, HTC and others do [...]
