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posted by CoolHand on Friday January 08 2016, @08:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-relevant dept.

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".

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday January 08 2016, @09:33PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday January 08 2016, @09:33PM (#286929)

    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.

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