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Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices

Posted by timothy on from the heterodox-approach dept.

The Verge reports that Microsoft's Cortana can now be used (at least for beta testers) as a drop-in replacement for the Google Now assistant on Android devices; that means users can select launching Cortana as their default on-board assistant, and launch it by holding down the device's home key. However, notes the article, "The update version still doesn't include 'Hey Cortana' support, largely because of hardware limitations that prevent Cortana from always listening for the command."

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  1. Hey Google, you evil bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It sure is nice for you that you can make billions of dollars by exploiting a Linux kernel made for free by volunteers and rebrand it Android, but where's my Bash shell, Google? Why do you have to use Free Software to deny me my Freedom, Google? Hey!! FUCK YOU, Google.

  2. I'm okay with this to an extent by MasseKid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly, I'm kinda happy that third party software can't continuously listen to my microphone.

  3. Re:Hey Google, you... contributor to Linux? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    exploiting a Linux kernel made for free by volunteers

    Corporations like Red Hat, Suse, IBM, Texas Instruments, Linaro, Samsung, Oracle, and yep, even Microsoft, all contributed to Linux. In fact, corporate contributions now stand at about 80% of all submissions, according to the Linux Development Report. The notion that Linux is made exclusively by a bunch of unpaid volunteers is simply not true. It started out that way, but it has a lot of corporate support these days.

    In case you're wondering, Google was the 8th most prolific Linux kernel corporate contributor in 2014.

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    Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.