Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by evan_ on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:49PM (#13339031)

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"?

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by esalman on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:15PM (#13339276)

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.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by tboughen on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:46PM (#13339537)

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.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by mikestew on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:29PM (#13340375)

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.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by esalman on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:00PM (#13340143)

Xbox one can be controlled remotely with Xbox mobile app, you might find that useful. I didn't get the Kinect by the way.

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