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Argument Via Siri
Posted by apt46 on November 16, 2011
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College Humor made this hilariously awkward video of how to use Siri to fight with your spouse:
From College Humor
Fun With Siri
Posted by apt46 on October 14, 2011
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Joshua Topolsky figured out that Siri is more than moderately helpful:
For those wondering what Siri is, it’s the digital assistant on the new iPhone 4S. You can talk to it in normal English with your voice and it responds, usually by voice also. It’s meant to do more banal things that finding a body-hiding spot though — things like setting your alarm, sending texts, telling you what the circumference of Earth is, etc.
Joshua’s post has a bunch more screenshots in which he asks it what the meaning of life is several times, where to buy drugs from, if he makes Siri horny (in response, she directs him to an escort service), etc.
From This Is My Next
Real-World Siri Video
Posted by apt46 on October 12, 2011
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Stuff.tv has a three minute video of people playing around with Siri, the new voice-operated personal assistant in the iPhone 4S.
From YouTube, via Laughing Squid
Why No One Loves The iPhone 4S
Posted by apt46 on October 5, 2011
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Apple iPhone Might Have By Far The Highest Retention Rate
Posted by apt46 on September 23, 2011
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UBS did a small-ish worldwide phone survey (515 people), with mostly European and Asian smartphone owners, but a quarter of them also came from ‘the Americas’. What they found was that 45% of those surveyed owned iPhones, which is a lot higher than the 25% or so that we see in the US (in surveys with a proper sample size). The Android numbers were backwards too — about 14% owned phones from Android manufacturers, whereas in Nielsen surveys in America, it’s more like 36%. So take the rest of this survey’s results with a sizable grain of salt.
They’ve found that Apple has an 89% “implied retention rate” (dropped from 95% last year), and the next manufacturer is HTC (Android) with 39%, followed by RIM (Blackberry) with 33%, Samsung (Android) with 28% and Motorola with 25%. Nokia’s on there too, but really, who cares? No word on how UBS came up with the “implied retention rate”, but they have figures for how many people are planning to switch to and from a manufacturer. A lot more people planned to switch to Apple than from it, and a few more planned to switch to HTC and Samsung than planned to leave them. Everyone was planning to chuck their Blackberries and Nokias into the river though and get an iPhone, or HTC or Samsung Android.
Most Android users were planning on staying with Android, but about a third were going to move to Apple. HTC was the most popular Android handset (39%), followed by Samsung (27%) and Motorola (16%).
From GigaOm
1 in 3 People Already Want The Unseen iPhone 5
Posted by apt46 on July 27, 2011
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Unlike the iPhone 4, a prototype of which an Apple engineer lost at a bar and ended up in the hands of the media, the iPhone 5 has yet to be seen at all. But everyone has faith that Apple will deliver, even though Steve Jobs has been on medical leave all year. This, according to a survey by the online store PriceGrabber:
- 35% of their customers want the iPhone 5
- 2.5% will get it in the first week
- The features people are wishing for in the new iPhone: better battery life, lower price, 4G support, bigger screen and better camera
- Which smartphone OS do they like? iOS by a wide margin, with 48% of the vote.
- Which physical phone do they want as a gift? Probably because they couldn’t think of another phone, 69% of the people picked the iPhone 5. The Motorola Droid Bionic came in second, with a whopping 7%.
No word on what the other 20% of the population voted for as their favorite mobile OS, but no doubt it was webOS.
Relatedly, word came out recently that some scientists figured out that as long as 10% of the population hold an unshakable belief (read, they’re zealots), that belief will spread like wildfire and consume most of the population. Assuming a third of the 35% of Apple fanbois are zealots, that means that pretty soon we’ll all be sporting iPhones. Although, the researchers’ models didn’t include two conflicting opinions, so maybe the Android crowd will keep Apple in check.
From PR NewsWire, via Wired and Slashdot
Apple To Address The iPhone Tracking Issue
Posted by apt46 on April 28, 2011
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The New York Times is reporting that at least on the iPhone side, the issue of the smartphone tracking itself is being addressed by Apple and will be fixed in the next iOS release. Apparently, the locations the iPhone was tracking were actually not of the phone itself, but rather Wi-Fi networks it comes in contact with; which is a bit of lip service, because it’s like saying you’re not writing down the location of the apples in a tree, just the tree itself. The reason it does this is apparently benevolent: to make geolocation easier. Getting your location via GPS can take a couple of minutes and indoors, especially windowless indoors, it just won’t work. Because of that, Apple keeps an iPhone-generated central database of the locations of all cell towers and Wi-Fi networks, and then your particular iPhone uses that database to approximate your location much faster — in a few seconds as opposed to minutes. Oh but wait, it also uses the data to generate a future traffic info service, so it’s not all benevolent.
But, it’s anonymous at least. And they’re blaming that file that’s left on your phone and computer out in the open, on a bug. Therefore, in the next iOS release that file won’t store the location data forever, just for the past 7 days. And it’ll be encrypted.
So what’s the net result of all this? The location file is going to be less ominous and more guarded, but the iPhone will still phone home to Apple as it pleases. You can bet the encryption on that file will be broken pretty quickly though, so all this really does is put a 7-day limit on how fast the Gestapo has to get their hands on your phone.
From The New York Times
Smartphone Tracking Is Not News To Police
Posted by apt46 on April 23, 2011
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Probably much to Apple’s dismay, this story just won’t die. First, someone figured out that iPhones store where they’ve been. Then, someone else figured out that Android phones do the same. Then others figured out that both phones send their data to Apple and Google, respectively. Now, CNET has a story saying all of that has been an open secret among computer forensics specialists for some time and that various law enforcement organizations, from local police to federal agencies, have been making use of that data for quite some time.
Legally, there is still no consensus on whether this practice is allowed without a warrant. At the border however, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (the nation’s most liberal) has approved the copying of all data on any electronic device by law enforcement, even if there’s no reason for it. And the CNET article lists at least three companies that are happy to provide any agency with software that will easily mine that location data off your phone, and into the Gestapo’s hands.
Realistically though, smartphones are like crack. News could come out tomorrow saying they’re making everyone sterile, and it wouldn’t hurt their sales a bit. I mean, what are the chances you’ll even want kids anyway? Or get arrested? Really low. But the chances that you’ll be on Facebook in five minutes while listening to Pandora and gearing up for Angry Birds are like super high.
Both iPhones And Androids Also Phone Home
Posted by apt46 on April 22, 2011
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The Wall Street Journal is fanning the flames of this week’s developments that both the iPhone and Android phones store the locations of where they’ve been on the phone. Now, WSJ has found out that both of them also separately send their location data to Apple and Google, respectively. Android phones send location data to Google several times an hour, and iPhones send it to Apple about once every 12 hours. They both also transmit info on nearby Wi-Fi networks.
Why do they do this? WSJ says “as part of their race to build massive databases capable of pinpointing people’s locations via their cellphones.” Having that kind of location data is worth a lot of money, because they can get all kinds of statistics about people’s behaviors, not to mention traffic data, and accurate maps of Wi-Fi networks.
It’s like they Google and Apple are spy factories, and their spies are disguised as really neat toys. “Wanna play with this really cool toy? Yeah, you do. We’ll just be standing over here, creeping over your shoulder — don’t mind us.”
From The Wall Street Journal via NPR