Given that Apple are suing Samsung where ever they can to stop sales of Samsung Android based phones and tablets, it would seem incredibly weird to find out that Samsung is the sole supplier of the A5 CPU (an implementation of the ARM A9 CPU) that’s used in both the iPhone4S and the iPad2, wouldn’t it?
Gizmodo: Siri is Apple’s Broken Promise
You would think from Apple’s TV ads for the Siri feature on the iPhone4S that Siri is technology from the future. The reality is though it doesn’t actually work as well as they show in the ads. And most of the time it doesn’t work at all since the processing of the voice recognition occurs server-side and apparently Apple have been having issues keeping the service up and/or available and you get a response something like: ‘I’m sorry, this service is unavailable right now. Please try again later’.
This article in Gizmodo gives the dirty low-down. It’s an interesting step forward, but in reality it’s just not ready for prime time yet.
Gates to return to Microsoft?
Maybe, according to rumors.
Carrier IQ scandal blown out of proportion?
I’ve seen the news stories on TV and I’ve read a bunch of articles on many websites (like this one here on cnet).
As an Android user I hope the Carrier IQ software isn’t actually doing more than what they claim, but based on what the claimed purposes of the software are, it seems the coverage on the news has blown way out of proportion.
If my wireless carrier choses to use some software preinstalled on my phone that helps them diagnose network and phone issues to improve the service that I in turn receive as a customer, then thats a good thing and I’m perfectly ok with that.
I can see that it would be easy to jump to the conclusion that this software is tracking you and everything that you do with your phone, but the explanation from Carrier IQ themselves on what the software does doesn’t sound like this is true. Of course I hope what they’re saying is true, but in the meantime I think people need to calm down and stop throwing fearmongering stories out there and spreading FUD.
Isn’t it strange that the guy who released this information has not yet come forward to agree for an interview with anyone? For all we know he was paid rather nicely to put this information out there as disinformation and an attempt to derail the rapidly increasing success of Android and Android based devices. What makes this one guy more believable and trustworthy than the companies that he is accusing of illegal wiretapping? That’s quite a serious allegation. Especially if he overinflated his story.