A conversation with my iPhone
Google voice search, the most eagerly anticipated improvement to the iPhone since 3G, finally showed up late Monday.
For readers who haven’t been following this drama, Google (GOOG) on Friday launched a media blitz for this hot new feature, which lets you search the Web by simply speaking into your phone. But for reasons known only to God and Steve Jobs, Apple (AAPL) made the world cool its heels a few days before releasing the program. (See Has Google lost its voice?)
Needless to say, we couldn’t wait to give the app a try. So first thing Tuesday morning, we downloaded the free update, fired up Google Mobile App, and started talking to our iPhone. Here’s what ensued:
- Q: What took so long?
- A: Woodfield Mall
- Q: Why the delay?
- A: “I did it my way” (Frank Sinatra)
- Q: Did Steve Jobs hold you up?
- A: What’s Steve Jobs got up his sleeve?
- Q: Are Apple-Google relations strained?
- A: Look for good fortune on 8/8/08
- Q: What’s next for Google Mobile App?
- A: Utility vehicles, Mobile Alabama
We can’t wait!
Below: Watch Google engineer Mike LeBeau find a giant squid on his iPhone.
What I want to know is why Mike LeBeau was looking for unicorn pictures.
Stop the presses! WinMo had voice recognition first. This is earth-shattering news and guess what? It hasn’t helped the WinMo platform one iota and fewer and fewer people will give a fig about the WinMo platform once the iPhone picks up global steam. WinMo is old news, soon to join Palm in the race for mobile OS bottom-feeders.
The guy who wrote this article, should focus on things in 50’s or 60’s and do history stuff and should not be allowed to write tech stuff, he had no clue what this technology is.
This is NOT pioneering stuff, Microsoft’s Live search for mobile phones already has voice recognition and it works pretty well. I do prefer Google Maps over MS’s maps on my WinMo phone though so this is a welcome addition.
I don’t think this article does the technology - or the reader - any justice at all. This is pioneering stuff, that will likely shift the goalposts in the same way as the iPhone itself has done.
I’m not sure this kind of cynical stance, with no real information benefit, belongs on what should be a reasonably mature blog. There are plenty of other sites for this kind of chortle…
Thanks Google !!! If google can do this in an app, why can’t apple can do with their own device… Apple dones nothing after get us a great phone…
I highly doubt that voice search is “the most eagerly anticipated improvement to the iPhone since 3G.” Competing for that title would instead be Copy/Paste, or a little closer to home, Voice Dialing.
Very cool
Works good so far. Nice to see Google is doing something productive. Now if I could only get them to fix my homepage(still upset about left side bar on homepage)
So your tongue in cheek (’you are chic”) examples, and your headline, imply the i-phone voice recognition program doesn’t work too well. But is that Apples fault or Google’s app?
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I was searching for the phone number for the restaurant “Bamboo Grove” and it came back with “man boob grope”.