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Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked Into Cyanogen’s Forked Version Of Android

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

"exec" writes:

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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• Re:Worthy Goal (Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:12AM

  by Whoever (4524) on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:12AM (#287107) Journal

  I know that they are high-quality.

  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.

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