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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".
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(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.