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Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android

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I'm curious how many would have noticed if not for it being a news item.

Do Alexa next.... we have so many Alexa devices, and I swear I'm yelling at Alexa more than I am my 3 year old...

My 3 yr old also can follow directions and listen better.

What we need is Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon maybe to team up and create a voice assistant "platform" that is better, open source, and wide open and could easily be booted on existing smart devices or alexa devices as a replacement.

I just want a smart assistant that works and will behave and do my bidding.

The big tech players team up and work together? Not in my wildest fantasies...

Sadly

Like they did for web browsers?

You want all to team up? What would web browsers be like right now if Firefox and Gecko/Servo were never in the way for Chrome? We’d have Apple doing little with WebKit and Blink. Really just Blink as we do now but it would be even more entrenched.

At the very least Apple, Microsoft, FB can be on one side with Amazon, Google on the other. Since FB isn’t doing any of this, then it’s two and two. I only picked the pairings based on how I assume the big 5 see themselves vs others.

Don’t forget Samsung! (Bixby)

Bixby's only use is to turn the TV off when my kid forgets to do it. I just shout: Bixby turn off.

I try to forget Bixby all the time, lol. Our Samsung fridge has it. It isn’t very intelligent. I can’t imagine Samsung will put the same effort and backing into it as the others.

Which goes back to Facebook not being in this niche in any capacity pretty interesting.

For the sake of the hypothetical that will never happen anyway. Samsung would go with Google and Amazon then. Of course it’s already funny to think of Amazon and Google teaming up in the first place :p.

Sweet, are we closer to finally killing the cortana.exe process that pegs the cpu on my windows vms and keeps coming back through windows updates?

Now shut her down in Windows please?

Disappointing. As a Halo fan, I thought Cortana was a great name for a voice enabled assistant.

How could any voice assistant stand a chance at competing with Siri on iOS?

Generally with any Apple first-party app. Apple doesn't make it easy either.

Alisa is much better than Siri for Russians.

I feel there is a big market for better privacy on voice assistants, perhaps even semi-offline functionality, and MS has missed an opportunity there to differentiate.

I'm still bitter about the shutdown of Windows Reader.

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