Another Way Apple’s Fight With Google The news since the launch of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 has been Apple’s lagging Maps app. The company’s face-off with Google clearly led to business decisions that hurt users, at least in the short term. But there’s another example of this, maybe just as bad, and it has been driving me crazy for weeks. Unlike with Maps, the solution to this problem has been ready all along – and Apple is blocking it. On August 8, Google showed off a new version of its main Search app for iOS that had the best voice interface I’ve ever seen on Apple’s platform. The Google Search app already has speech-to-text, which Google is very good at, but this is something else. This is voice search that understands natural language, like the latest version of Android (Jelly Bean) has. You don’t have to think about your words like you’re typing them into a search box. You just ask a question or speak a sentence, and Google figures out what you meant. As Google said at the outset, it was like the Star Trek computer. The live demos at the August 8 Google press event were spectacular. Read more at ReadWriteWebThis Doc is the property of http://android-iphone.net and for educational purpose only . The material on this doc cant be used without explicit permission of owner.
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