Pay tribute to those crazy guys who are maverick and they are unruly;
They make troubles, they are out of place, they look at things in a different way;
They don't like to stick to the rules, they don't want to be comfortable with the status quo, you can praise them, quote them, oppose them, question them, praise or vilify them, but you can't ignore them, because they change things, they push humans Pre-development.
In the summer of 2007, this "madman" Jobs subverted our understanding of mobile phones with a new iPhone. The interactive design of the full touch screen and the material of Corning tempered glass made it impossible for everyone to understand. This was when Microsoft CEO Ballmer It seems that the iPhone is just a niche playwright, and Nokia, which was in its heyday, even dismissed it.
The greatness of Jobs is that he let time prove everything, and the mobile phone industry has been introduced into the new era of smart phones from the era of functional machines.
But after ten years of development, we regret to see that smartphones are getting faster and faster, screens are getting bigger and bigger, pixels are getting higher and higher, but in essence, highly homogenized, in fact, smartphones There is no new idea after the iPhone. Everyone is busy with the running points, which is the main selling point than the thickness and even the color of the outer casing.
As an industry observer, I have been thinking about where is the next singularity of a smartphone?
A new generation of voice assistants: Siri, Alexa, Bixby
In the past two years, the voice assistant field has contends and even set off a small climax of smart speakers. Who are Siri, Alexa, Bixby, and Assistant? We will not repeat this. Today we will mainly discuss new changes and new ideas.
According to the statistics of research institutions, as of October 2017, China’s mobile phone users exceeded 1.4 billion, which means that each person owns more than one mobile phone. In the face of the one billion-level user market, these smart assistants certainly have a place to go. This is an important channel for them to get users and data.
As a "new guy", there are still many problems. According to media intelligence (smartman163), the voice assistants on the smartphones have different levels of problems. We randomly interviewed several smartphone voice assistant users, their Feedback speech recognition is inaccurate, instruction execution is inaccurate, voice interaction is not enough, and public use is inconvenient.
Internet practitioner Xiao Guo said (a pseudonym), "When I started using the iPhone voice assistant Siri, I felt very amazing, I couldn’t put it down, I even took the time to chat with it, but after the freshness, I slowly stopped using it. Many operations are still not directly Manual operation is convenient, and it is silly to wake up in public relations situations. In short, there is no stickiness."
Of course, for the voice assistant Siri, there are many positive comments. The college student Xiaonuo (a pseudonym) said, "I will use it. Siri's intelligence is still much higher than other voice assistants. The ecological chain is also better, but I use it. The most useful feature is to check the weather and set the alarm clock.
Fortunately, with the development and rise of artificial intelligence technology and AI mobile phone chips, voice assistants have ushered in a new round of upgrades. In June 2016, WWDC was never open to developers' open Siri, a significant advantage of the iOS platform. With a rich third-party application ecosystem and many high-quality developers, Siri's openness is bound to inject strong power into the product. We see that Siri's API for developers is integrated into SiriKit released last year.
Not open, this is why everyone has been criticized by Apple's assistants. It allows us to set alarm clocks, check weather, manage schedules and send text messages, but we can't let us call takeaways, nets, and tickets. The latter is The user needs more high-frequency scenes in daily use.
After a year of open arms, Apple ushered in the release of iPhone X. Together with the launch of the artificial intelligence chip AI chip, Apple called it a neural engine, it has a 6-core CPU, joined the GPU designed by Apple. It has a 25% increase over the previous generation of chips and has a total of 4.3 billion transistors.
This time, relying on a powerful processor, the mobile voice assistant Siri has more natural voice, real-time translation and more accurate predictions in addition to supporting third-party applications.
Craig, Senior Vice President, Apple Software Engineering
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