News!!! News!!! News!!! Finally!!
I have been waiting for these worthy news for a long time!!! And here they are!!!
Image from Sam Hodgson, Bloomberg |
Red bugs in the Starbucks syrup Image from Red Orbit |
Image from Locky's English Playground |
Image from Macau Daily |
Image from ABC News |
Vlingo Image from Vlingo |
- Apple bought Siri when it was an app on the App Store on April 28, 2010.
- Siri's voice recognition technology is powered by Nuance.
- S-Voice developed by GSIII is powered by Vlingo.
- Vlingo used to be involved in multiple lawsuits with Siri due to patent infringements until Nuance bought Vlingo.
- So now both Siri and S Voice are powered by the same company, Nuance.
- Therefore, Apple owns Siri, Samsung owns S Voice, both use service from Nuance,
In a sense, it is just like two restaurants having the same vegetable supplier but serving different customers. Is that wrong? I don't think so, Apple is unlikely to be able to win in the court with this point.
Anyway, Apple, can you stop trying to stop other brands and fight fair like a man! Killing creativity by limiting consumers' choices is just going to make more people want other phones! Stop your iSweatshop factories and make better phones to beat your competitors!
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Vocabulary:
dyslexic -- (adj) a difficulty with reading and writing caused by the brain's being unable to see the difference between some letter shapes
stabilise -- (vb) [T] If you stabilize something, you cause it to become fixed or to stop changing
assume -- (vb)[T] to take or begin to have responsibility or control, sometimes without the right to do so, or to begin to have a characteristic
resort to sth -- phrasal verb to do something that you do not want to do because you cannot find any other way of achieving something
Resources:
Starbucks to upgrade food by buying artisan bakery chain @ Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-starbucks-bakery-20120605,0,2144357.story
Starbucks Uses Bugs To Color Frappuccino @ RedOrbit
http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1112502639/starbucks-uses-bugs-to-color-frappuccino/
Wider letter spacing helps dyslexics read: study @ Google News
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gfjmDRS2ZRLBdaLwMd1teaOOr6hg?docId=CNG.c696b6b901a1a83f3cc55da5f6ed67e9.4f1
Hong Kong's financial secretary urges property prudence @ Macau Daily Times
http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/36360-hong-kong-s-financial-secretary-urges-property-prudence.html
Apple Tries to Stop Samsung Galaxy S III at the Border @ All Things D
http://allthingsd.com/20120606/apple-tries-to-stop-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-at-the-border/
Samsung challenges Apple’s move to block Galaxy smartphone sales in the US @ Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/samsung-challenges-apples-move-to-block-galaxy-smartphone-sales-in-the-us/2012/06/07/gJQA4NmJKV_story.html
Siri v S Voice @ YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9YbwtVN8Sk
Inside Apple's Chinese 'sweatshop' factory where workers are paid just £1.12 per hour to produce iPhones and iPads for the West @ Dailymail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Inside-Apples-Chinese-sweatshop-factory-workers-paid-just-1-12-hour.html
Siri @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software)
Samsung blocking Vlingo-powered ‘S-Voice’ feature for non-Galaxy S III users @ 9to5Google
http://9to5google.com/2012/05/21/samsung-blocking-vlingo-powered-s-voice-feature-for-non-galaxy-s-iii-users/
Nuance acquires speech recognition competitor Vlingo, Apple’s speech engine choices dwindle @ 9to5Mac
http://9to5mac.com/2011/12/20/nuance-acquires-speech-recognition-competitor-vlingo-apples-speech-engine-choices-dwindle/
ESPN Euro 2012
http://www.espnfc.com/en
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/dyslexic
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/dyslexia
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/stabilize#stabilize__3
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/assume_3
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/resort-to-sth#resort-to-sth__2
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