Earlier today Apple wrapped its WWDC 2018 developer keynote, with a long list of announcements. Apple has four platforms, iOS, MacOS, Apple TV and WatchOS. Each one saw new upgrades or features. We’ll have “what it means” stories about several of the announcements later and tomorrow, but the following is a summary overview of everything […]
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Siri’s perceived mediocrity is putting Apple’s smartphone leadership at risk. It’s also having a negative impact on sales of Apple’s smart speaker, HomePod, which received largely lackluster reviews because of Siri’s functionality (I mostly disagree). An exposé of sorts from The Information about problems with Apple’s management of Siri has been getting a lot of
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Apple’s HomePod is being hailed as the best speaker among the current smart speaker cohort, which includes Google Home, Amazon Echo, Alexa-enabled Sonos and others. But it’s also being heavily criticized, even savaged, for several flaws. The consensus of the criticism basically focuses on two or three main areas: It doesn’t natively support music services
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The Google Assistant has been updated to make entertainment content more accessible to voice control. The company announced today that users can set alarms to play a favorite song, playlist or radio station instead of a loud, unpleasant alarm sound. Users invoke this by speaking, “Hey Google, set an alarm for 6 a.m. that plays
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Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com People are less inhibited about using voice search and talking to their phones in public than they were just a year ago. That’s according to a new consumer survey from Stone Temple Consulting, which is a follow-up to a similar survey published last year by the firm. The chart below compares
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According to new survey-based data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), Google Home has gained some ground on Amazon’s Alexa device universe. The firm says that Google Home accounted for about 40 percent of the units sold in the US during the holiday period. CIRP’s analysis argues that the current smart speaker market share in the US breaks
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Having missed the holiday shopping cycle, Apple is finally releasing its HomePod smart speaker on February 9. It will initially be available in the US, the UK and Australia and later “this spring” in France and Germany. With its higher price ($349) and late entrance, Apple is definitely an underdog versus Amazon and Google. There’s
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