"Could Siri, the voice-based virtual assistant for every iPhone 4S owner, constitute a threat to Google's Android operating system?" Jennifer Van Grove asks for Mashable. "Absolutely, says Gary Morgenthaler, a partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, recognized expert in artificial intelligence, and a Siri board member and investor. Apple, he argues, now has at least a two-year advantage over Google in the war for best smartphone platform."
"'What Siri has done is changed people's expectations about what's possible,' Morgenthaler said in an interview with Mashable. 'Apple has crossed a threshold; people now expect that you should be able to expect to speak ordinary English — and be understood. Siri has cracked the code,'" Van Grove reports. "This threshold, from mere speech recognition to natural language input and understanding, is one that Google cannot cross by replicating the technology or making an acquisition. 'There's no company out there they can go buy,' Morgenthaler says."
Van Grove reports, "At the moment, Siri has a lot of iPhone-centric functions. But Siri the company implemented more than 45 APIs prior to being acquired by Apple — meaning the possibilities of a conversation interface to the web are endless… 'Apple has the opportunity to outmode the entire Android ecosystem,' Morgenthaler says. Of course, that hinges on Apple making those APIs available to iOS developers, but he believes Apple will do just that: 'This will be the differentiating factor in the iOS platform.'"
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