10-29-2011, 08:43 AM
Except the crap siri fetchs from 3rd party apps was already searched for using 3rd party apps or going to their websites beforehand.
For example, if I ask siri to get me a flight and it goes to expedia or wherever, yes google is cut out.
But then again, prior to siri (and after since I'm not a big enough douche to be talking to my phone) I bypassed google since I just went to expedia by default.
I could see them switching to bing for the web search options as a threat to google, but that is nothing inherent in Siri.. The threat to google is the general movement away from googling everything to using specialized apps/sites to get information because you know it is the best way - and this has been going on for quite some time.
And hey, look, forbes agrees with me:
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For example, if I ask siri to get me a flight and it goes to expedia or wherever, yes google is cut out.
But then again, prior to siri (and after since I'm not a big enough douche to be talking to my phone) I bypassed google since I just went to expedia by default.
I could see them switching to bing for the web search options as a threat to google, but that is nothing inherent in Siri.. The threat to google is the general movement away from googling everything to using specialized apps/sites to get information because you know it is the best way - and this has been going on for quite some time.
And hey, look, forbes agrees with me:
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