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Apple's next great product should be...

Ahlevah

Ahlevah

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Amazon has had pretty good success peddling its Alexa assistant and Echo speakers. By comparison, Apple doesn't currently have such a product on the market, and its iPhone assistant, Siri, sucks. She's little more than a toy, and a pretty dumb one at that. For example, if I ask her for the prices of Dow stocks she says she can't give me investment advice. :doh

Here's what I wish Apple would do:

Apple already has a joint venture arrangement with IBM in the area of business apps. It should partner with IBM to develop a junior version of IBM's Watson, place the software on its phones, and make it capable of interfacing with advanced servers. It can have just a fraction of Watson's capability and still run rings around anything on the market, and it would have the advantage of being portable, unlike Alexa. It would be a real shot in the arm for iPhone sales. One can only hope.
 
One more thing. Imagine all of the marketing data the companies could collect and collate from the millions (billions?) of inquiries it would receive. Finally, Google would have a serious rival.
 
Ahlevah said:
Amazon has had pretty good success peddling its Alexa assistant and Echo speakers. By comparison, Apple doesn't currently have such a product on the market, and its iPhone assistant, Siri, sucks. She's little more than a toy, and a pretty dumb one at that. For example, if I ask her for the prices of Dow stocks she says she can't give me investment advice. :doh

Here's what I wish Apple would do:

Apple already has a joint venture arrangement with IBM in the area of business apps. It should partner with IBM to develop a junior version of IBM's Watson, place the software on its phones, and make it capable of interfacing with advanced servers. It can have just a fraction of Watson's capability and still run rings around anything on the market, and it would have the advantage of being portable, unlike Alexa. It would be a real shot in the arm for iPhone sales. One can only hope.
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I disagree it would be a shot in the arm for iPhone sales. At this point, the people who buy iPhones are the people who buy iPhones. Most of the people who don't buy iPhones aren't going to change their mind because of Watson Lite.

The fact is Apple has been behind the curve for a while now. They were quite innovative in both iPods and iPhones (and even iPads, though the tablet market didn't have the staying power). But they are no longer the leader in innovation, either in product development or marketing. At this point, Apple's business strategy simply seems to be to keep pumping out similar phones year after year, with upgrades to more modern hardware and a few non-game changing software features and let the loyal buyers of Apple continue to buy.
 
I can see elderly and disabled as being real beneficiaries of this technology.

We have Alexa. It's kinda of useful and kind of stupid. My wife likes it. I may look into the interface so I can control things from my phone like I do my wall thermostat. I plan to control my outside front lights with either one because it's high on the pain in the ass o-meter since the wall switch is by the front door, which we never use and I'm too lazy to trot down there. (I've never paid $50 for a light switch before. Crikey!)

For the fit and able, I see voice commanding in smart homes as a gimmick for those who are running out of new tech to play with, or to control specific inconveniences in your home.

Personally, I don't like talking to a machine that pretends to care. They haven't learned to fake sincerity, yet. But hey, that's just me.
 
The should go meta and get in to fruit farming. :lol:
 
A smart house for Inuits. The i-gloo.
 
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