Source: tech.firstpost.com --- Thursday, March 30, 2017
Samsung and term “software” have not been synonymous for various reasons in the past. We had Samsung’s S voice which was a terrible and half-baked attempt to quickly counter another voice assistant, Siri by Apple. Samsung’s quest to compete with Apple has been a rather long and unending one. While Siri has gotten smarter over time, especially with iOS 10, she is not as smart when you compare it with Google’s recent AI creation, Assistant. Yes, Google Assistant is right about the smartest assistant you can find that for now is available on a number of devices. Microsoft’s Cortana really does not count as it barely makes a dent in the smartphone space and is fighting its own uphill battle to make itself available on Android and iOS smartphones, since Microsoft really does not have any of its own. In short, out of sight is out of mind. And in the quest to compete with Apple’s Siri (and in more ways than one Google Assistant) we now have Samsung’s very own AI-based digital voice assistant Bixby that comes built into the Galaxy S8 flagship. Bixby is smart, can get smarter, has the potential to attract developers and even help Samsung build its own smartphone software ecosystem. But at the announcement, Bixby was not as awesome as we expected it to be. As per CNET , Bixby is purely home grown as it stands today and has yet to be plugged into Viv, the brains and brawn behind the operation. But while this yet has to happen, Samsung has a ...
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