Steve Jobs May Finally Get His Wish of 'Destroying' Google (GOOG)
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Before he died, Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Steve Jobs had his sights set on "destroying" Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and its Android operating system. Now the company he founded may have something in its hands that has the power to do just that.
It was revealed in the new Steve Jobs biography that he was livid when HTC introduced the Android phone with many of the same features as Apple's iPhone. He called Google's actions "grand theft" and vowed to "destroy Android."
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said, according to the Associated Press which received an early copy of the book. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
In a meeting with Google's past CEO Eric Schmidt, who was an Apple board member from 2006-2009, Jobs told him he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit. "I don't want your money," Jobs said at the meeting. “I want you to stop using our ideas in Android.”
Well, Jobs may get the last laugh after all.
The new Siri virtual personal assistant feature in Apple's new iPhone 4S may entirely change how people use search on their mobile phones, going directly after Google's core search business.
In a CNET interview, venture capitalist Gary Morgenthaler, an investor and former board member of Siri before it was bought by Apple, said the feature is "potentially very disruptive to the search industry."
Siri's voice renegotiation system is a cut above the rest, Morgenthale states. The system is built upon the Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) speech recognition engine, but then adds another layer.
"What is different is that Siri brings this natural language understanding and various pieces of artificial intelligence that allows it to understand what you meant rather than simply recognize words and convert it into text," Morgenthaler said. "That makes it the most advanced artificial intelligence commercially available on the planet."
"When you search, what you want back is not a million blue links. What you want back is one correct answer." Siri does this, he said.
Just as Google went after Apple in the mobile business, Apple could really take Siri to the next level by opening up the API to developers.
"Look what happened when Apple opened the API for the iPhone gestural user interface. Suddenly, it had a hundred thousand developers and 500,000 apps. My argument is that Apple has the same opportunity to open the API to its developers so that their apps can be conversationally enabled."
Siri is a big potential risk for Google, according to Morgenthale.
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It was revealed in the new Steve Jobs biography that he was livid when HTC introduced the Android phone with many of the same features as Apple's iPhone. He called Google's actions "grand theft" and vowed to "destroy Android."
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said, according to the Associated Press which received an early copy of the book. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
In a meeting with Google's past CEO Eric Schmidt, who was an Apple board member from 2006-2009, Jobs told him he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit. "I don't want your money," Jobs said at the meeting. “I want you to stop using our ideas in Android.”
Well, Jobs may get the last laugh after all.
The new Siri virtual personal assistant feature in Apple's new iPhone 4S may entirely change how people use search on their mobile phones, going directly after Google's core search business.
In a CNET interview, venture capitalist Gary Morgenthaler, an investor and former board member of Siri before it was bought by Apple, said the feature is "potentially very disruptive to the search industry."
Siri's voice renegotiation system is a cut above the rest, Morgenthale states. The system is built upon the Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) speech recognition engine, but then adds another layer.
"What is different is that Siri brings this natural language understanding and various pieces of artificial intelligence that allows it to understand what you meant rather than simply recognize words and convert it into text," Morgenthaler said. "That makes it the most advanced artificial intelligence commercially available on the planet."
"When you search, what you want back is not a million blue links. What you want back is one correct answer." Siri does this, he said.
Just as Google went after Apple in the mobile business, Apple could really take Siri to the next level by opening up the API to developers.
"Look what happened when Apple opened the API for the iPhone gestural user interface. Suddenly, it had a hundred thousand developers and 500,000 apps. My argument is that Apple has the same opportunity to open the API to its developers so that their apps can be conversationally enabled."
Siri is a big potential risk for Google, according to Morgenthale.
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