Wednesday 18 January 2012

Apple co-founder "Woz" says Android better than iOS in some ways

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In the year 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak jointly founded Apple, furthermore the very first Apple I computer was launched later the same year. The electrical engineer, Steve Wozniak (Woz) left the company after twelve years. He still holds Apple shares but are not full-time employee any more. His latest chat with Dan Lyons of The Daily Beast made headlines.


Woz said in a recent interview that there are some things which could be done much better with an Android smartphone compared to the iPhone 4S. Even though, Steve highlighted that iPhone 4S still his first preference phone and he believe the iPhone 4S is the most excellent overall smartphone. "My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does."



The co-founder is not very much impressed with the iOs app Siri any more (Siri is an intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator functioning as a personal aide application for iOS. The application make use of a natural language user interface to answer questions, make references, and perform procedures by hand overing requests to a web services). He says the voice commands on Android work better than on his iPhone. According to Woz:

“I used to ask Siri, ‘What are the five biggest lakes in California?’ and it would come back with the answer. Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listings. I used to ask, ‘What are the prime numbers greater than 87?’ and it would answer. Now instead of getting prime numbers, I get listings for prime rib, or prime real estate.”

                                                              iPhone's Siri App

Another feature where Wozniak thinks Android is better is the built-in navigation system.

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