Comments on: Hackers Reverse Engineer Apple’s Siri, Coming To An Android Device Near You?

By: Eric Levine

Eric Levine — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:06:00 +0000

Truth be told (as I’m just now seeing this reply), I like aspects of both platforms and am not as dogmatic as other commenters on the site. I haven’t used Siri extensively as I don’t own an iPhone, but the gal pal does and my boss does, and other than using it as a timer when cooking, it’s not as life-changing as one would think. Agree with all of your statements about apple devices being a smoother & more stable operation, but one could say the same of fascist governments

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Siriously, who cares?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:06:00 +0000

I don’t have an iPhone…. Nor am I getting one with my upgrade.

Bro

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:13:00 +0000

Keep dreaming iGnoramus. I have no desire to use another overrated Apple feature but you go ahead, Stevo the great will reward you for your loyalty from the grave.

By: Jhonathan Urena

Jhonathan Urena — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:44:00 +0000

they just love her because it’s the closest some will come to finger banging a girl

By: RonsterWVU

RonsterWVU — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:47:00 +0000

I’d use Siri… I’m not even going to lie…

By: Jarred Sutherland

Jarred Sutherland — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:51:00 +0000

And you would need a unique ID to make it work .. so without buying an iPhone, you still couldn’t say it.

By: Jason Cohen

Jason Cohen — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:28:00 +0000

You can actually set Siri to not speak back to you and to perform the action without reply. Have you actually spent any real time using it? I only ask because a lot of people on these boards are quick to dog the other platform when they haven’t actually used it in real life situations. I just left my Droid X to go back to iOS & bought an iPhone 4S; Siri is 100x better than Google Voice search ever was. I like both platforms, I do miss the larger screen, but ultimately Android needs to fix their buggy ass software hopefully with ICS. I didn’t leave Android because of the hardware as there are a lot of great phones out there with terrific build quality… I loved the build quality of my X, however, if the software doesn’t work in tandem with the hardware then what good does the hardware do? With little to no usage, my battery was down to 5% within 8-10 hours, multiple times per week I’d have to do a battery pull, there was constant lag… this was all after like the 3rd GB update Verizon pushed out. I also rooted to get around this problem and was running the CM7 build for a while… still the same problems. Lag, reboots, battery pulls and terrible battery life. I would consider myself a fanboy of both as I check sites for both daily and keep up with developments on both platforms. All of this being said, ultimately the iPhone does offer a smoother experience and that is what I was looking for. There is no lag, contrary to other users troubles I get terrific battery life (even before the 5.0.1 update), the screen is a little small for me but the Retina display is truly beautiful, and when I press call on a contact it does not wait 10-15 seconds while thinking it over, it actually dials immediately. I thought of waiting for ICS but since I have another upgrade coming up in March, I thought I’d give the iPhone another shot and I’m happy I did. Unless ICS just blows me away when I finally get my hands on it to play with it, I’ll be sticking with iOS while Android continues to iron out it’s software kinks, pure Google experience or not! I just don’t understand why people can’t like what they like without the other side wanting to dog them for it. Competition creates innovation and with both sides bringing new ideas to the table all of us win. All of the arguing back and forth gets a little childish and immature after a while, so everyone take a breath and simply enjoy what you like and stop worrying about what other people think.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:31:00 +0000

(Yawn) Did u say something?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:18:00 +0000

Siri is like the background story to a horrible SyFy rendition of Terminator. Except in the future with Siri there isnt any Cyborgs trying to exterminate you, its mindless Hipster looking people in t-shirts with the apple logo on it trying to get you to conform.

By: Katerina Selezneva

Katerina Selezneva — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:13:00 +0000

I find voice control cool while using music player on my smartphone. It would be very convenient to switch between songs without taking the phone out from my pocket. But talking to a phone and making it tell you stories like some iPhone owners do… I think it’s just weird. I would rather talk to my friends and not to my phone. Even if it is an iPhone. iPhone 4S: the most amazing phone or the greatest disappointment?http://k-selezneva.blogspot.com/2011/10/iphone-4s-most-amazing-phone-or.html

By: Jake Karrer

Jake Karrer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:49:00 +0000

Vlingo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:22:00 +0000

More fandroid ignorance….Siri has the ability to bypass Google altogether….it only defaults to Google on the small chance that it can’t…and because it is a beta program, it means this is just the beginning. Over time as Apple updates it brain, it will eventually phase out Google search altogether…..so like I said, feel free to use Siri….you’ll only be hurting Google in the process!! Lmao!!!

By: ViciousKing1914

ViciousKing1914 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:06:00 +0000

They took our notification bar….that hoe is ours!!!

By: palomosan

palomosan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:41:00 +0000

I got news for you, the Galaxy SII, the Rezound and the Nexus have better features than the iPhone.
Again the only thing going for is the Siri girl, trust me I spoke to her.