Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android

Re:Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android by skinnymuch on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:08AM (#26671538)

You want all to team up? What would web browsers be like right now if Firefox and Gecko/Servo were never in the way for Chrome? We’d have Apple doing little with WebKit and Blink. Really just Blink as we do now but it would be even more entrenched.

At the very least Apple, Microsoft, FB can be on one side with Amazon, Google on the other. Since FB isn’t doing any of this, then it’s two and two. I only picked the pairings based on how I assume the big 5 see themselves vs others.

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Re:Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android by Apocryphon on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:48AM (#26671846)

Don’t forget Samsung! (Bixby)

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Re:Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android by skinnymuch on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:51AM (#26777635)

I try to forget Bixby all the time, lol. Our Samsung fridge has it. It isn’t very intelligent. I can’t imagine Samsung will put the same effort and backing into it as the others.

Which goes back to Facebook not being in this niche in any capacity pretty interesting.

For the sake of the hypothetical that will never happen anyway. Samsung would go with Google and Amazon then. Of course it’s already funny to think of Amazon and Google teaming up in the first place :p.

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Re:Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android by kyriakos on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:58PM (#26673960)

Bixby's only use is to turn the TV off when my kid forgets to do it. I just shout: Bixby turn off.

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