Apple's recent acquisition of Siri, a voice-activated iPhone application, leads Jemima Kiss of The Guardian to speculate that the company is aiming for small-scale, voice-commanded devices in the near future.
As she sees it, a voice-activated phone could shed the screen and place the technology in a device smaller than an iPod Shuffle, with commands unfettered by menus.
As she notes, though, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has repeatedly denied his company is moving into the search engine business, which a device as she describes surely comprises. Mobile, though, is the next major scramble.
As she sees it, a voice-activated phone could shed the screen and place the technology in a device smaller than an iPod Shuffle, with commands unfettered by menus.
As she notes, though, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has repeatedly denied his company is moving into the search engine business, which a device as she describes surely comprises. Mobile, though, is the next major scramble.
