Apples First AD for the New Iphone Focuses on Assisting it's owners

Wow, by the holiday everyone will be talking to, or wanting to talk to their own personal assistant. (Video)

Lets Go to the Video Tape

Two things about this short Ad, it is amazing how much you can pack into 30 seconds. Second all of us with Iphones immediately went to play this commercial back to see if our phone could do that too. Sure enough, when I asked Siri who to time a bow tie if found a great video for me. And how about that little girl about my grandson's age, "fund me a picture of a Weasel" .  I tried it, and yep, Siri found me a picture of a weasel.

Aside from the fact that this is the best holiday present since sliced bread there are a couple of things the public should get from this commercial. One 4S is not just simple Speech Recognition (SR) like non-intelligent Google voice or that type of technology that was in the Iphone 3GS and 4. This is a whole new level of Speech recognition combined with artificial intellegence (A.I.) to assist you.

 So the new Iphone feature is the unique combination of SR and AI in a hand held device. The benefit you handled now does no longer just make phone calls but assist you find things and get things done. It strikes me that it will be a great help to the disabled, especially those that can not or have trouble typing or spelling. 

Imagine that a phone that tries to figure out what you want, instead of you trying to figure out what it wants.

Thank you Mr. Jobs and team.
Artificial Intelligence 101

Google Just made their big 4.0 announcement, is it a game changer or just more Iphone cloning?

I like the face lock feature. Apple this is something you should clone from the other side. putting all the connections in contacts is also a good feature.

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Droid is the Same As Iphone - You Can't Be Sirious (Poll)

I ran into a friend who had a droid. After I offered my condolences, he told me that the salesperson who sold it to him, did not sell the Iphone he asked for, but assured him the droid was a smart phone the "SAME" as the Iphone. With shock and dismay, like my tennis hero John Mcenroe, I said, you can't be Sirious!

That should read who's got the Iphone +[;-)

I then went on to explain to my locked in for two years unhappy Droid friend about Siri (Job's Personal Assistant That learns) and the general position of Apple and the Seven Droids (like IBM and the 7 Dwarfs). The good news is, now that Iphone is carried by more carriers, there will be less to of this bait and switch happening to the poor clueless customer.  Read more at aunk.newsvine.com

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Breaking News My Iphone 4S shipped ETA 10:30 AM EST

AT&T must be taking a page from Apple's Retail customer service genius book. I did not expect it till Monday.

When it gets here I will update U, up close and personal, blow by blow.

The 4S got here one half an hour early at 10:01 Am THANK YOU AT&T you are the big story of the day, maybe even bigger then Apple. I have everything restored to my 4S Cloud is working hardware software is OK. Now to activate the phone.

Hold the phone, I just called AT&T to activate my phone and they tell me they did not activate it properly and I should go to my local AT&T store for help or send it back and they will send me a new one with the right activation, fat chance I will be sending this phone back.

OK. I got someone who seems to know what they are doing and they sent me to the IVR system for automatic activation. Now that sounds reasonable, we will see? Stand by 

Success we are activated. AT&T was not the problem as I later discovered in the bottom of the box was the one page activation instructions WHICH I DID NOT READ. The process does not require humans and it bullet proof. If you get humans involved they will screw it up. My Bad.

 
I giver AT&T and A (except for the woman from hell who told me to send it back, lol) That you can get human beings from America at AT&T is actually a big pulse for us customers that don't read instructions,

Now onto see how my friend who ordered through Apple on-line. Then testing out Siri and AirPlay.