A Conversation With Siri

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 10:04:32 PM. © Daring Fireball

Video of Jason Snell using Siri. Matches my experience. Mostly amazing, sometimes just doesn’t get you, but even when that happens, it’s usually easy to correct/clarify what you mean. (See the rest of Snell’s iPhone 4S review here.)

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http://www.macworld.com/article/162959/2011/10/a_conversation_with_siri.html

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iPhone 4S Benchmarks Start Leaking Out

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 08:03:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

As promised by Apple, graphics performance is up about 7×.

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http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/11/iphone-4s-geekbench-benchmarks-68-faster-than
-iphone-4/

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Apples 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month
Late

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 08:03:38 PM. © Daring Fireball

Andy Baio:

So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-languagevoice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and wasless than a month off.

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http://waxy.org/2011/10/apples_1987_knowledge_navigator_only_one_month_late/

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Thats What I Wear. I Have Enough to Last for the
Rest of My Life.

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 07:03:51 PM. © Daring Fireball

Gawker has an excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s imminent Jobs biography, regarding his iconic wardrobe.

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http://gawker.com/5848754

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You Are Underestimating the Future

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 07:03:51 PM. © Daring Fireball

Michael Lopp, on Steve Jobs’s 1997 WWDC closing keynote:

I was an Apple employee for eight and half years and I didn?tsee the video until after I?d left the company. For those whoworked there and for those who have watched Apple?s success,what resonates from this crackly old video is that it was clearthat Steve could see the future. He may have given features,products, and strategies different names at the time, but so muchof what Apple has become is described in a video from almost 14years ago.

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http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/10/06/you_are_underestimating_the_futu
re.html

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BBM Server Takes a BM

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 07:03:51 PM. © Daring Fireball

Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian:

Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revoltafter tens of millions of users in Europe, the Middle East andAfrica suffered a second day without services such as BlackBerryMessenger (BBM), as the company struggled with problems at its hubin Slough, Berkshire.
The company also revealed that the areas affected now includeSouth America, with users in Brazil, Chile and Argentina sufferingloss of service.

Starting to feel bad for RIM.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/11/blackberry-users-revolt-against-
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Oh, Wait, THIS Is What Explains the iPhone 4S
Preordering Success

post from Daring Fireball on 11 October 2011 06:04:03 PM. © Daring Fireball

Paul Thurrott:

Apple’s lackluster iPhone 4S garnered more than 1 millionpreorders in its first 24 hours of availability, though much ofthat is likely tied to the delayed launch.

Sure, so I guess when Apple announces its quarterly results next week, they’ll say that iPhone 4 sales dropped precipitously over the last three months. Right?

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http://www.winsupersite.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/microsofts-windows-pho
ne-chief-talks-momentum-140870

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Completely Broken, All Right

Speaking of Paul Thurrott, here’s a prediction of his from just before last week’s event:

I have one prediction of my own. And that is that Apple willcompletely revamp the very much broken external antenna designthat it saddled iPhone 4 users with.

Good call.

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http://www.winsupersite.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/wininfo-short-takes-se
ptember-30-2011-140774

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ISEKI I Serial Killer on iOS

Digital Press Introduces ISEKI 1.0, for iOS. ISEKI is an app with comfortable information cards about the most sorrowfully famous serial killers; Manson, Fisher, Bathory and many other. With ISEKI you will read the story, the crime and the end about this "Evil on Earth" how the app defines them. The app is a open database with characters, more or less famous, that have marked human history negative, an expandable database which will collect in the time more killer with every app update.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-32065.htm

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Kalimat premium goes Free

Indie developer Fares Fayad announces Kalimat 1.3.4, for iOS devices. For the first time ever since it was launched back in February 2011, Kalimat - the critically acclaimed word game - goes Free! Kalimat is aimed at casual and hardcore gamers alike. Combining a set of rules that fans are already familiar with, it adds to the mix a set of rules and challenges that will completely revolutionize word games. Kalimat is available in "pass & play" mode when no data connection is available.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-32062.htm

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