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gatorguy said:

StrangeDays said:

Google Home Hub - so, it's like an iPad? But on a stand?

No sir, in both intent and design. 

(Some of this quoted) The Nest Hub Max can act as an indoor security camera that streams a live feed of your home to your phone. With a camera now included the Nest Hub Max can recognize your face when you arrive home and will bring up a personalized home page, such as calendar notifications or your own photos for the background slideshow. The feature is called Face Match which Google says the device processes locally and does not upload to the cloud. You can also use it for video calls ala' Alexa....

So...like an iPad.

Putting the litigation issue with Oracle to the side, there's nothing preventing Google from developing a new OS from the ground up and then implementing something like what Apple did with Rosetta to allow old apps built on Java to continue to run on this new OS until they can get developers to move over to whatever new language they are using. I would assume they've been working on something like this for years now to address many of the issues DED brings up in this article. If they could do that it seems like it wouldn't take much to continue to dominate the non-Apple mobile device market. I guess the question is would something like that still fall under the scope of the intellectual property lawsuits from Oracle?

canukstorm said:

Looks like people want and are liking big screens.  At this rate I'd be surprised if the 5.8" XS sticks around next year.

I'd assume the lower sales of the XS is a result of the iPhone X being the same size with fairly similar specs. I have the X, love the size, but didn't feel like the XS had enough to warrant an upgrade.

BubbaTwo said:

I have a Galaxy S8

Who let him in here?!

gmgravytrain said:

Apple has so much money to do whatever it needs to do to make Siri at least competitive with other voice assistants. What the heck is the matter with Apple? Siri could have been on all of Apple's devices over the years.

One thing I think people forget about with Apple is the sheer scale (rivaled only by Google) that they have to manage with a product like Siri. When you have over a billion devices using a service it can require a lot of additional management resources beyond the 20 million or so devices that Amazon is currently running with Alexa. Add to it the fact that Siri (I believe) understands a lot more languages than Alexa and that's stretches their Siri development even further.

But on the other side, I agree that if this was really THAT important to Apple, they'd put more into it and improve it faster than they are currently.