“It’s now been a couple of weeks since Siri debuted as part of Apple’s iPhone 4S,” Eric Jackson writes for Forbes. “The response from most people has been very positive.”
“However, in my opinion, Siri is tremendously under-valued. People see it as it is today, which is already the best voice recognition application in history,” Jackson writes. “But people (including high-priced sell-side Wall Street analysts) fail to see where the puck is going for Siri. Siri will be vastly more improved in as little as 2 years from now. And the boundless number of applications using Siri will explode.”
Jackson writes, “In the way that the January 2007 launch of iPhone set a ripple in the ocean that would eventually overtake Research In Motion in an all-out tsunami, I believe Siri’s launch this month spells a future crippling of Google’s business.”
Here’s why:
1. Siri works
2. Siri has personality
3. Siri is very difficult to copy
4. Siri helps own the customer experience for Apple
5. Siri will vastly improve in the next 2 years based on all the data it’s amassing
6. When Siri opens up its API to 3rd party developers, this thing’s growth and adoption will go ballistic
Jackson writes, “Ultimately, Siri is intended to be a Google killer. It won’t happen overnight. Research in Motion didn’t collapse after the iPhone was released in January 2007. In fact, RIM hit all-time highs 7 months after iPhone’s introduction. It’s only now — 4.5 years after its introduction — that we see how iPhone caused RIM’s slow-motion car crash. It might take that long for Siri to inflict that much harm to Google and Google has lots of cash to throw at the problem. But we might be watching the beginning of the end of Google, thanks to innocuous introduction of Siri in the 4S.”
Much more in the full article, including explanations of each of the six points above, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
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