Report: Microsoft will upload Cortana to iOS and Android devices
Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant, will be heading to iOS and Android devices later this fall.
Microsoft’s Cortana will be headed to Android and iOS devices shortly after the release of Windows 10, according to a report by Reuters.
The report cites people that are “familiar with the project” who say Cortana will be made available as a standalone application and will represent a new front in CEO Satya Nadella’s goal to deliver Microsoft software where its customers are, regardless of the device or platform they’re using.
For those who may not be familiar with Cortana, it was made available last year exclusively on a number of Microsoft Windows Phone devices. Cortana is powered by Microsoft’s Bing search technologies and can assist the user through interacting with their contacts, calendar, music, messages, reminders, and more.
This certainly isn’t the first time a piece of Microsoft software has become available across platforms as we’ve seen Office for iOS just a few months ago, as well as an Android and iOS version of Outlook. Making Cortana available on iOS and Android could certainly help Microsoft out as it’ll open the digital assistant up to more users. I’ve used Cortana in the past and I was always impressed with the technology running behind the blue circle, so I’d certainly be interested in having her on my Android and iOS devices.
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i'll try it too, but i'm pretty meh at the 'have your device talk back to you' thing.
i used google now to look up 'black science man' last night. the lady at burger king opened the window to give me my food at the same time as google now saying 'LOOK AT THESE PICTURES OF BLACK SCIENCE MAN' and she gave me a really weird look. i don't like that shit.-
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He's a racist
http://i.imgur.com/ech56.jpg
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I'll try it out, but it sucks that it'll never be as good as Siri as you'll always need to manually launch an app to get started with it. But that's what we accept when we go with Apple. We get more app consistency, OS reliability, and efficient battery life, but we lose the ability for apps to do things like become the default voice service
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You do realize that WP has beaten Apple's market share in multiple countries, right? I'm not sure what the magic feature is in the US, but honestly the biggest reason they don't do as well in America is because our mobile market is fucking massively broken and Samsung and Apple are taking huge advantage of it.
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China's about 0.7 percent, the USA about 3.8 percent if I remember Kantar's stats from this first quarter. EMEA is a little higher I think, but overall, it's still pretty small. Agree with you though, if the carriers and brick and mortar stores aren't carrying, or advertising the hardware, they're on a hiding to nothing, which is a shame. WP's make great corporate handsets.
How do you fix a monopoly in the one market that Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly over..-
They're very strong in Europe and I know at one point they had a bigger marketshare in some of the larger ones, or at least I read somewhere they had passed iOS in France or Italy or somewhere similar--but they simply don't buy in the numbers that the US and China do, as you totally pointed out.
It does seem like the success was short lived, and their lack of new handsets with current specs certainly isn't helping. I'm sure Windows 10's release fanfare will create a bump if they present the world with a great phone, but I don't know if that will be enough.
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