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Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store
daria42 writes "Steve Jobs might not be around any more to enforce some of Apple's stricter policies, but that doesn't mean the company is letting it all hang loose. Overnight the U.K. company which produces a speech recognition app called Evi, which mimics many of the functions of Apple's Siri, confirmed Apple had approached his company letting it know that Evi was being reviewed for possible breaches of Apple's App Store policies. The reason? A clause in the policy which bans apps too similar to Apple's existing software. It does appear to matter to Apple that Siri doesn't function that well in the U.K., because of a lack of good localisation."
Supposedly Evi will be continue to be allowed on iOS if it alters its interface to be dissimilar enough from Siri to placate Apple.
Apple: Siri, please pull rival app from app store
Siri: Would you like cheese with that?
Don't be Evi.
I be continue to be horrendously disappoint at Slashdot's lack of editing!
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Walled garden, yadda yadda fear mongering bias making use of all the negative buzzwords to describe Apple. Have you seen how beautiful a real Walled Garden is? At the same time who doesn't lock in customers?
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This should be easy to resolve, they just need a little table with translations:
US English -------- British English
Bathroom ------------ Loo
TV----------------------- Telly
Awesome dude! --- Jolly good old chap!
Greetings, sir ------ ‘Ello Guvna
Cigarette ------------- Fag
Horse-faced --------- Female
Toothbrush ---------- N/A