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I really dislike Andy Rubin, there I said it. Might as well say goodbye to my carrière over at Google, but the bugs in my head don’t let me ignore the comment from the above mentioned gentlemen.

This is like opposing evolution and saying that Apple will stop exploiting children to use their tiny fingers to assemble iPads. See what I did there?

The future brings new interface methods, in 10 years we will all be surrounded by augmented reality, motion and voice controls. Siri is the first step in that direction. I am sure in the near future Google will introduce a similar feature.

Quote: “It’s a lot faster and more convenient to hold down the home button and say “wake me at 8:15 tomorrow morning” than it is to go to clocks, click on alarms, and scroll around with your finger and then press save.”

The head Android honcho over at Google, Andy Rubin, had a few choice words to say about the iPhone 4S’ personal assistant Siri. According to Rubin, we should spend more time talking with actual people than with our phones, and that Apple’s technology “isn’t a new notion.” Speaking at the AsiaD conference, Rubin added “I don’t believe that your phone should be an assistant” though tasty desserts they totally should be.

Quote: “It’s idiotic for an executive to say something dismissive like this unless they truly don’t plan to add these kinds of features to their phones. (Or more accurately, to their phone OS.) But you know damn well that they will. Google does a lot with voice and translation and so on and there is obviously customer demand for this type of interface.

And also to say it isn’t a “new notion”. Well no kidding. the notion has been around for decades, but this is the most impressive actual implementation of this idea that’s been available in a consumer device.

Nowadays executives seem to have a hard time ever admitting that competing companies have anything worthwhile. I’d have a lot more respect for him if he said, “Siri on the iPhone 4S is pretty cool. There are a lot of limitations though in its current form. We are working on similar technology and when we release it, it will be more mature than what Siri is offering right now.” or “While Siri has some cool functionality, we see the current limitations as being a big problem. We are researching similar tech and when we feel we have overcome many of those limitations, you’ll see it in Android.” See? Was that so hard? And it’s probably completely accurate to say something like that. After all, Google isn’t likely to introduce a Siri like interface down the road that isn’t at least as good as what Siri offers now.”

Source: http://goo.gl/AaycR