Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by evan_ on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:49PM
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Great point- and if I'm not mistaken there was voice recognition available on the XBox 360 and the PS3 through their add-on camera kits, which meant only some relatively small portion of installs had it. Then they both did the exact same thing in the following gen.
The XBox has Cortana, I think, but does the PS4 have a "smart assistant"?
Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by esalman on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:15PM
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Cortana requires a mic attached to Xbox or the controller. But I never use one. It would be nice to have a mic built into Xbox, which would act like Alexa or Google home.
Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by tboughen on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:46PM
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My wife and I both use our Xbox One with Kinect and Amazon Echo daily. Alexa works extremely well, but Cortana works only 80% of the time and so slowly we usually pick up a controller, even just to pause Netflix.
Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by mikestew on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:29PM
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but Cortana works only 80% of the time and so slowly we usually pick up a controller, even just to pause Netflix
That's why I unhooked the Kinect that was forced upon me when I bought a launch day box, and put it in the garage. That pile of garbage worked just often enough to trick me into trying to rely on it. But 80% isn't anywhere near good enough, IMO.
The problem was they each always try to just extend their corporate wall around your home. Rather than giving an inviting place to encourage innovation in your home. Apple has the same "our way, on our time" mentality that stifles innovation by third parties. For a time, this was offset by the awesome innovations they were providing. That time seems to be ending.