“Andy Rubin thinks there is a lot of potential for phones to be more useful companions, but says he is not interested in turning Android devices into personal assistants,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“‘I don’t believe that your phone should be an assistant,’ the Android chief said in an interview on Wednesday just after appearing on stage at AsiaD,” Fried reports. “[Rubin added], ‘Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.'”
MacDailyNews Take: “He is not interested in turning Android devices into personal assistants” because he can’t. He doesn’t have the technology in place to do so. Hopefully, Apple has patented the hell out of Siri (not that patents seem to matter much to Google’s Android team so far).
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
Who is telling the MARKET what they want. Seems he has got it wrong which is really bad. We do want a personal assistant, one that is totaly hands-free and can instantly wake on a wake-up voice command and one that stays active without running down the battery. A lot to ask for but hopefully one will come. Most all assistants have 1 or 2 of the features above but not one is 100% hands-free. When it arrives I will buy and I am willing to pay.