Posted on 12/15/2015 7:35:00 PM PST by Swordmaker
Edited on 12/16/2015 1:28:57 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
SAN FRANCISCO — Cortana's learning the neighborhood. Google's digital assistant can't tell a joke. And Siri apparently has a thing for the metric system.
Those are just a few of the things I learned after staging a face-off between the three leading digital assistants. Apple's Siri and "OK Google" — they're not big on personification at Google — are now standard on smartphones; Microsoft recently added its Cortana service to Windows 10, so it works on PCs, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Cortana is Skynet
No need. Microsoft is building Cortana for iOS, albeit a "lobotomized" version for starters.
Cortana just showed up on my phone one day. I had no idea what it was, tried to remove it and failed, so there it sits. Now (this very minute) I learn it is some kind of audio interface. Oh yay, another way to intrude on me. Joy joy.
Google’s is ridiculously buggy. I don’t even bother anymore
Uh, Siri has always been able to set reminders for when you got to locations.
To use Cortana on iOS you have to invoke the Cortana app. . . and then ask it something. It is not just there like Siri.
Siri and all other Apple products are far less intrusive then anything offered by Google.
I don’t know if people completely understand that Everything you say or search for within Google’s suite of products is kept forever and can be used in whatever way Google sees fit, ie: your user search engine history, where you’ve been, contacts, etc.
Google’s Cortana digital assistant database servers permanently record Everything a user asks of it.
No thank you.
This is Siri-us
“Then I tried the famous line from “2001: A Space Odyssey” in which astronaut Dave Bowman tells the ship’s computer: “Open the pod bay doors.” Cortana knows the right answer: “I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” But Siri had a better one: “Doesn’t anybody knock anymore?”
I tried it with Siri just now. She said, “but the cat will get out!”
Lol.
Several months ago you posted on how to totally delete everything that is on google.
I did it on my computer but did not save the instructions so that I could help some others. Would you please post them again?
Everything you need is on this thread:
Thank you
Hmmmm...maybe but not in a way that is as useful: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2142022/the-battle-of-the-digital-assistants-windows-phone-cortana-vs-google-now-vs-siri.html
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