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Re:Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repu... by wisty on Monday March 19, 2012 @02:25PM (#3725359)
How about Siri?

The iPhone was the next step in omnipresent computing. You always have your iPhone. It's two steps down from laptops (leap-frogging the tablet, which has come after the iPhone). The next step is either glasses with computer screens (kind of geeky), or voice-interface computers.

With a voice interface, you can shrink a computer down to the size of a wristwatch. Getting data out is a problem (display glasses? some kind of projector?) is an issue, but not insurmountable.

15 years doesn't sound crazy.

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Re:Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repu... by brudgers on Monday March 19, 2012 @02:43PM (#3725451)
My understanding is that Apple bought the technology for Siri rather than developing it in house.
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Re:Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repu... by bgramer on Monday March 19, 2012 @05:22PM (#3726298)
They may have bought the technology but they definitely improved on it across the board while integrating it into iOS.
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