http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/cortana-cyanogen/
Microsoft's Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One..
[...] while Siri works best with Apple apps and services, the Cortana integration promises to be deeper.
"When Apple launched Apple Music at WWDC, they showed the Siri integration with Apple Music. Siri doesn't power Spotify like that so we can do these kind of things with for example, integration of Microsoft's Cortana into the OS enabling natural language to power Spotify and other services," Cyanogen CEO Kirk McMaster said in an interview with International Business Times last year.
It isn't clear when this feature will roll out to other Cyanogen-compatible devices, but already this ambitious startup is getting serious with its quest to "steal Android away from Google".
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Friday January 08 2016, @08:17PM
Not sure that integrating with Microsoft's services is the best idea, but "stealing Android away from Google" is a worthy idea. Now if only there was an Android smartphone with parts made after 2012 and has a screen smaller than 5"...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:35PM
If only there was such a phone... oh wait, there is [sonymobile.com]!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Zinho on Friday January 08 2016, @09:51PM
From someone other than Sony, please? Going to Sony to escape customer abuse from Google is like going to a Mafia loan shark because you don't like the interest rate on your credit union's Visa card contract.
Also, math fail: 5.2in > 5in. [gsmarena.com]
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:00PM
Get one of the Samsung mini-series phones. There's also a new 4.7" OnePlus 2 Mini in development, might be out by Summer.
(Score: 2) by NullPtr on Friday January 08 2016, @10:49PM
The z3 is a great phone though. You're only punishing yourself by not getting a sony product; they sure as hell don't know or care what you think of them.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Zinho on Friday January 08 2016, @11:19PM
The z3 is a great phone though.
I'm sure it is, and I hope you enjoy it.
You're only punishing yourself by not getting a sony product
No, I'm protecting myself from a company with a LONG history of underhanded tactics to force customer lock-in. On this site of all places I shouldn't have to list my grievances, they're common knowledge.
they sure as hell don't know or care what you think of them.
And that, right there, is the problem. I'd like to love Sony products, I really would. I know that they are high-quality. I wish Sony would just grow some confidence that their customers would stay with them due to the high quality. I've been watching them now for 3 decades, and every time I start thinking they've cleaned up their act they do something else that blatantly abuses their customers. When Sony starts caring what people think of them they'll start on the road to making more sales. Until then I'm boycotting, and I'm not the only one.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:12AM
I don't agree with this. In my experience, recent Sony products look good when you compare the specs, but then what you find out is that the specs hide real problems. For example, my car radio can read USB thumb drives, BUT, only the first 4GB (and I bought the radio when 64GB thumb drives were common). Another is their use of their proprietary SD cards, designed to make the cost of ownership higher.
I don't consider a device with those types of mis-features to be high-quality.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday January 09 2016, @04:44AM
The z3 is a great phone though.
It may well be.
You're only punishing yourself by not getting a sony product;
No, there are enough equally good or better alternatives on the market.
they sure as hell don't know or care what you think of them.
Not yet, but the number of people boycotting sony is slowly getting bigger and when they notice the dollars going elsewhere thy will care.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Nollij on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:25AM
You're not looking hard enough.
Samsung [verizonwireless.com], Motorola [verizonwireless.com], Kyocera [att.com], LG [att.com], and even ZTE [t-mobile.com] make phones under 5"
The trick is that small phones are not popular, and usually have lower profits - they are never featured, so you'll have to dig to find them.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 08 2016, @08:24PM
OnePlus may have its fans, but it's just another player in a crowded Android smartphone market. Microsoft is paying a lot to get onto some phones with a feature maybe some people will use sometimes.
As for Cyanogen, does it allow you to pick between the Google version and Cortana?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:07PM
OnePlus dumped CyanogenOS a year ago. It is the default OS on the OnePlus ONE only, because most users kept the default OS instead of the new OxygenOS.
FWIW, OxygenOS is the default operating system on the OnePlus 2 and the OnePlus X (I own one, wife owns the other). It does not have any of the Microsoft stuff baked in.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday January 08 2016, @08:25PM
Seeing as how few people I talk to even know about Google Now, Google's digital assistant. Cortana being baked into Windows 10 is getting it some exposure, and if everyone knows about it as Siri #2 Google may well lose this battle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:39PM
By "exposure" you mean making most intelligent people avoid installing windows 10 ? Also the way microsoft is so pushy to offer windows 10 for "free" starts to smell of desperation . Cortana in Cyanogen means one more reasons to avoid anything from them and with the right phone is easy enough in android world to find a decent rom
(Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Friday January 08 2016, @08:29PM
I'm not sure, but I am going to assume this will not be integrated into the Cyanogenomod distribution.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kadal on Friday January 08 2016, @08:34PM
It won't be forcibly integrated. I remember reading a press release about this from Cyanogen, but can't find it now.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:36PM
I sure hope it isn't. Now that MS has gone full spyware with Win10, anything they touch is suspect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:12PM
Best decision ever was installing CyanogenMod and just Fdroid apps. Clean fast machine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @07:35AM
Now??? Sure they've stepped up their game now that the average consumer has been "adjusted" and takes privacy violations for granted, the lack of complete outrage over the mass surveillance being the canary in the mine. "Hey boys their outrage is dead, we can move in!" Everything MS has touched has been suspect for at least 15 years. It began with controlling software and patents, but the new game is data and they've been sucking up various services. One big one is Skype, all communications go through the MS servers when they didn't before the takeover. I'm sure logging has nooothing to do with it /s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:44PM
I am going to assume this will not be integrated into the [Cyanogenmod] distribution
We'll see.
I think you overestimate the extremely low price some folks put on their souls as well as the percentage of its wealth M$ is willing to dedicate to its dirty-deeds warchest.
...and, having failed at anti-Android FUD, [soylentnews.org] M$ has moved on to another big item in its playbook: E,E,E. [wikipedia.org]
At this point, a really good idea is to assure that the device you are scoping out is Replicant-compatible. [soylentnews.org]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:57PM
Ambitious startup - "ambitious" in the way SCO trade mark it but since microsoft is behind both of them , no need to worry about it
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday January 08 2016, @09:33PM
Microsoft's Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One..
What a disaster.
Microsoft’s Cortana quietly snuck onto Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you happen to own a OnePlus One smartphone.
Not sure whether they (partially) fixed the original article after it was posted, or somebody managed to thoroughly bungle a copy-and-paste operation on the way to SN.
I mean geez--I know proofreading an entire article is a drag, but making sure the first fucking sentence is actually readable is too much effort?
P.S: Looks like the lines other than the first in this summary were added by the editor, even. Bravo.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:35PM
"Microsoft's Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One.."
Is that English?
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday January 08 2016, @10:02PM
Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked
Hey Cortana...
Ah, screw it. Like I'd know what Cortana would say on weed.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:28PM
I'm so glad now that I resisted the urge to try Cyanogenmod. At least now I know my decision was sound.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @10:51PM