At Apple's annual developers conference Monday — the same event where Siri was introduced — the company's efforts to become an AI powerhouse were on display as executives launched a new stand-alone smart speaker and touted features meant to boost Siri's chops and to power AI applications on Apple products.
Rather than postponing the launch until next year, when all touted features will be ready, the company has opted to cut.
Even highly touted features like the iPhone X's screen aren't designed by Apple, but instead are designed and manufactured by others, which in the case of the screen was Samsung Display.
Microsoft's debut of the Xbox One today touted features including live TV, Skype group video chat, split-screen multi-tasking, voice command, social recommendations, a more sensitive Kinect, and stronger hardware for next-generation graphics.
In some of the booths, enormous stainless-steel machines touted features like "vaveless expansion technology"; giant glass flask and beaker rigs towered over their sales teams like props that would seem too on-the-nose in a mad scientist laboratory scene.
The user interface is surprisingly sluggish, there are some usability gaffes, and I encountered a major bug with the device's most-touted feature.
However, there are plenty of startups angling for a slice of this market: GWI's report cites Bumble and Hinge as just two companies touting features that they hope will make them more appealing than Tinder.
Ironically, typical proprietary EHR Patient Portals are largely provider centric touting features such as bill payment as a primary benefit — I'm sure that is tremendously exciting to patients.
In contrast, as I outlined in Health Systems Ignore Patients at Their Own Peril, "the most important member of the care team is the patient". Unfortunately, the vast majority of proprietary EHR Patient Portals are provider centric touting features such as bill payment as a primary benefit -- I'm sure that is tremendously exciting to patients.
