Still an app and not built-in to the hardware? Ho-hum.

but does it have an ipod in it?

1) Hold Search.
2) Say "Call Burger Shack".
3) Order food.
4) Remind yourself that "Burger Shack is not in my contacts list."

I've been doing this for a year. The phone googles what I tell it to call, and calls the closest match that's physically closest to me.

Just downloaded it. Opened it up and it puked and had to force close. Siri-al killer I think not.

Speaker2Animals: Still an app and not built-in to the hardware? Ho-hum.

... built into the hardware? That sounds like a terrible idea. Are you sure the word you're looking for isn't "OS" or maybe "firmware"?

When you do nothing but define yourself as "the [X] killer" or "[X]'s first real competition", you basically give over your brand identity to [X]. You are defined not by your success, but the success of a competitor. How about you just make a decent product and let me decide what kills what in the marketplace for once?

Doesn't seem to be available yet in Canada, but I downloaded some other third party app (Speaktoit Assistant) that was awful.

ampoliros: I've been using the voice software built into Android for a long time. It works really well and based on my wife's iPhone experience it seems to work just as well as Siri,

1. Hold Search
2. Speak
3. ???
4. Profit

Um, doesn't that just search? I guess I've never actually tried it, but I assume I can't say "Schedule an alarm for 1 hour from now" or "play some Beethoven."

So basically, it's something else that will track what sites I go to, what I like to buy, what movies I like to watch, where I live, just to tailor more marketing stuff to my area. No thanks.

/Also, information overload? I call it having plenty of options.

AKA Joker: ho hum, wake me when any of them speaks in GLaDOS's voice and is just as snide

Newsletter, blog, whatever you have, I would like to subscribe.

Surool: Still copying Apple and pretending they aren't? Typical week for Android.

Nah, Android still has flash.

ThisNameSux: Siri moderates a fight

Holy crap that's awesome

nitefallz: Not on my market. Tired of the filter market bullshiat

I didn't know there were different markets? I thought it was all the same market run by Google, not the vendor. My market says nothing about it being run by Verizon?

ProfessorOhki: Surool: Still copying Apple and pretending they aren't? Typical week for Android.

What happens: Apple buys four-year-old company whose tech is based on 40 years of DARPA and university work.
What you think: Apple innovates again! Is there no bound to their creativity?!

It was Apple that packaged the code in an elegant and useable way for the masses. Innovation comes in many different ways, don't be a tool.

tricycleracer: teknishn: It was Apple that packaged the code in an elegant and useable way for the masses. Innovation comes in many different ways, don't be a tool.

Apple purchased Siri on or around 4/28/10. The Siri iPhone app was available before this.

The Siri app wasn't nearly as comprehensive or integrated as it is now. I do see your point, but there is still a big difference. Add to it Apple's excellent marketing and now the masses are exposed to something only a few thousand may have been before. I personally never heard of the Siri until after it was announced for the 4S. The marketing is also a key ingredient here. If you look at Motorola, their commercials look like a trailer for the next Michael Bay movie. I suppose a futuristic motorcycle sticking into the side of an armored car and theft of a case should illustrate to the masses why they should buy a razr. Samsung.... they try to make fun of the small minority of iDevice owners that like to wait in line on launch day. Now look at all of Apples iPhone or iPad commercials. They simply show people what you can do with the product.... and I think that is the third key ingredient. 1 you have to implement the tech. 2 it has to be well implemented, easy to use, and hopefully (just work). And 3 you have to let people know about it, give them a demo, illustrate how it can potentially enrich their lives. Why no other company has figured that simply recipe out yet is beyond me.

TenUp: Splinshints: I'm not an idiot so I'm able to use the voice features my phone already has. If I want to have a fluid conversation with something, I'll go make a friend. My phone is a tool, not my buddy.

Stop trying to compete with stupid things on the iPhone that don't serve any useful purpose and figure out how to give me native Cisco VPN access without rooting the farking phone.

If I wanted a goddamn iDevice I'd have bought a goddamn iDevice. Stop trying to make what I bought into one.

THIS IMPLIES YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS

iDevices have had native Cisco VPN access for years. Maybe they should stay the course.