Siri

The flaws with Apple Maps and previously with Apple’s voice recognition software, Siri, reveal some deep flaws with Tim Cook’s work as CEO. You might think that Tim Cook is doing a spectacular job. After all, since taking over as CEO on August 24, 2011, Apple stock has risen 74%, and its revenues and profits Continue Reading →

June 2015 – Dateline Cupertino, CA – In a somewhat anticipated, kind of lackluster presentation that felt old and threadbare, Apple announced the debut of the iPhone 7 today to tepid applause and few accolades. The 4G LTE smartphone runs iOS 9 and features a 12 megapixel rear-facing camera and an 8 megapixel front-facing camera. Continue Reading →

New York iPhone users who ask Siri for a weather forecast this week might be surprised to learn that the Big Apple is expected to register temperatures in the mid-90s for the next several days. Of course, that’s not the actual New York weather forecast, but a weather forecast for the town of New York Continue Reading →

Upgrading to iOS 6? Be careful about leaving your locked iPhone unattended unless you change some settings. Otherwise an unscrupulous stranger could order Siri to send tweets and Facebook posts from your account that you didn’t make — even if your phone is locked. Apple has added the ability for Siri to interact with Twitter Continue Reading →

The adoption rate of iOS 6 among iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users has surged to 15% in the first 24 hours, according to a new report from online advertising network Chitika. The rate is much higher than it was with iOS 5, which took five days to reach 20% adoption, and Google’s latest Android Continue Reading →

Apple’s iOS 6 is more of an incremental update than a game-changer, but with more than 200 features there is plenty to like here. Outside of the new Maps app, Passbook, and new Siri functions, most of the changes are small, but the total package is more than its individual parts. The update will make Continue Reading →

Even if you’re not planning to upgrade your iPhone to the iPhone 5, that doesn’t mean you have to sit out the smartphone refresh fun. Apple’s going to release the next version of its operating system, iOS 6, to the public Wednesday, which will come with an improved version of Siri, a new mapping app Continue Reading →

Voice control is the way of the future, or at least that’s what Apple wants people to believe. With the launch of Siri on last year’s iPhone 4S, Apple opened up a new world of using a natural language user interface to the masses. Today, Siri is on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPad, Continue Reading →

Last year, when Apple introduced the iPhone 4s — a visual clone of the 16-month-old iPhone 4 — a lot of people yawned. “Brilliant” pundits were quick to criticize . It was more of the same, not very new and would surely herald the end of Apple’s leadership in the smartphone market. Sure, it had Continue Reading →

Audience, the company responsible for developing the EarSmart technology which powers Siri, has announced that Apple is “unlikely” to use the system in the next-generation iPhone. Audience actually helped Apple develop part of the A5 processor, so that it could include a digital signal processor to remove background noise and secondary voices, as well as Continue Reading →