Andy Rubin, the man behind the development of the Android OS operating system, stated, at the launch conference of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, that Apple did a very good job in developing the Siri system but that people should communicate with each other using a mobile device and should not communicate with the device itself. After this statement, Rubin contradicts himself by saying that users must also communicate with the devices to a certain extent and he believes that Apple has chosen the right moment to bring Siri to consumers but that the technology is not new or innovative.
I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant. Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone. To some degree it is natural for you to talk to your phone. We'll see how pervasive it gets. This isn't a new notion. In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.
I think that at the iPhone 4S presentation conference, the people from Google were amazed to see a system like Siri implemented in iOS 5 because at the moment no Android device has a similar technology and Rubin's contradictory statements give understood that they would have wanted to bring it to the market first. In the future, Android will definitely have a function similar to Siri implemented, but I think it will only be available in version 5.0 of the operating system, which will be released next year. I hope that Apple will develop Siri from all points of view and I hope that Google will launch a system at least as good to force Apple to come up with new and more interesting technologies for users.
