* Microsoft to do it for business users
* Google pixie does it first for personal use. Android phones might even momentarily be more desirable than iphone
* Apple eventually get there, for their walled garden
* Amazon etc fall totally behind
* And, years later, users of google docs are still waiting for basic AI help writing docs whilst google completely doesn't try in that space
A good on-device assistant would be super useful: - instead of searching for a setting, you just tell it to change a device setting - decent appointment/reminder setting ("remind me to invite joe to my next birthday party" -> and it knows who Joe is, and how to set up such a reminder) - all kinds of search ("what was that book about startups that someone recommended to me a year ago?", "open up a tracking page for that thing I ordered last week", "show me a photo of XX I took last summer") - managing e-mails the way old-school secretaries did - "any important messages?", or "reply to everyone I'm out of office, unless it's related to X"
I make a point to not share my search history with anyobe, or any other data as much as possible. And I wont start doing so to enable some AI gadget I am more than happy to live without.
Phone, remove the blemish from this picture.
Phone, make my hair slightly more red, and my waist thinner by one inch.
Phone, tell me who that guy in the background of my pictures is.
Phone, what time do I need to leave to get coffee on my way to work.
Those sorts of things.
AI would be much better at auto-completing whole sentences and paragraphs and suggesting rephrasing etc in docs and presentations, than at answering questions about the world.
But the race seems to be to answer questions about the world based on a 2021 dump of the internet, so ... :)
Most of the world is already there, and it's not momentary. iPhones only dominate the market in North America - Android has the majority basically everywhere else
As for docs, I can see them pushing for more Gemini integration depending on how M$ Copilot goes when it reaches saturation
> Most of the world is already there, and it's not momentary. iPhones only dominate the market in North America - Android has the majority basically everywhere else
Market share is not necessarily proportional to desirability. Cars make a useful analogy here. I think a Ferrari is more desirable than a Volkswagen, but Volkswagen’s market share is much higher.
