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Google calls Apple's Siri a possible threat in search

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Google calls Apple's Siri a possible threat in search

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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has told a U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee that AppleÃ*s Siri personal assistant is a potential threat to its core search business. The admission reverses a statement that Schmidt made in September last year where he had said that Apple did not pose a ëcompetitive threat.Ã* Schmidt argued that the arrival of Siri is a ësignificant threatÃ* and even cited two publications that have called the voice recognition app a ëGoogle killer.Ã*...

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But Google's iPhone app has voice-based search too...
 
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Discerptor said:
But Google's iPhone app has voice-based search too...
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Yeah, but it's not an integrated part of the phone. It's not being advertised. You have to actually download the Google app. It's also not activated by holding the home button. It also doesn't have witty comments for you.
 
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Poor Eric, is he afraid he will not have an many Billions as he now has? :D

Cry me a river and build me a bridge and get over it! :D
 
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Poor Eric, is he afraid he will not have an many Billions as he now has? :D

Cry me a river and build me a bridge and get over it! :D
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Actually, Eric isn't trying to cry here at all - he's trying to use the existence of competitors like Apple's Siri to show that Google isn't an unchallenged monopoly using anticompetitive tactics to block other search engine contenders.
 

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