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gatorguy said:

stevewhite said:

Another big if to consider, if one were to postulate that the Amazon/Google/Facebook (AGF) groups were to "perfect" voice-based AI, is that they destroy Apple only if they can generate some insurmountable lead with that technology: that people will flock to the new AGF voice-based products in a way that Apple can't manage to replicate. As Daniel points out, Apple usually is NOT the first to a new technology. So it's possible that AGF will beat them to practical voice-based computing. But what really matters is what Apple Labs has cooking that none of us (NONE of us) know about. If Apple is buying key tech, integrating it into product, and then -- in about two years after AGF has their products about -- comes out with some new voice-based computing, home, and mobile products that have the usual Apple sauce (style, convenience, integration, cool factor), what then? Apple grows bigger, and AGF begins to look a lot like Nokia, Microsoft and Blackberry, that's what. I don't think Apple is stupid. They know voice-based computing is a big idea. They've been working on and improving Siri. Apple may be getting big enough, with 110,000 employees, that it can't move quickly, but they're NOT an in-fighting, narcissistic Microsoft, a flighty, hummingbird-focus Google, or a one-trick pony Facebook. Steve Jobs always understood that the different between an artist and a business is that the latter delivered a product. I think Apple will deliver.

Destroy Apple?? Yeah right. Why is there a constant chorus of voices saying this company or that company is trying to destroy Apple. Is Apple trying to destroy all other companies? Heck no, they're out to make big profits. If anyone goes out of business because of it, then it's simply collateral damage and not the intent.