Said Picasso to the great artists and geniuses steal copied. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, applied this reflection according to his interests when he criticized Microsoft for having taken over the philosophy of the graphical environment and when from Apple itself they did the same by borrowing the mouse from Xerox. In any case, now it seems that it is the South Korean Samsung, current world number one in the smart mobile segment, which is looking for the laps to the guys from Cupertino. And it is that as we have learned through Phone Arena, the Asian multinational would be working on its own version of Siri.
SAMI, which is what the virtual assistant that we could see in Samsung devices would be called, is being developed in the firm's laboratories under the supervision of Luc Julia, head of Siri at Apple for more than ten months and currently forms part of the ranks of the top competitor of the Californian company. As reported in Macworld, the SAMI project (acronym for Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions) has been under study for six months, and in addition to having the characteristics that we already know from this type of application, it would have the interesting possibility of communicating with other terminals.
However, it has not been clear at the moment if SAMI would be installed only on mobiles and tablets or if Samsung would take advantage of all its offer of smart devices to integrate this curious electronic butler. Let us remember that the South Korean multinational has also begun to publicize Tizen, its new operating system developed together with Intel, capable of working on SmartTVs (televisions with advanced functions and Internet connectivity), on-board computers in cars and even refrigerators. Thus, the ability to interrelate between teams would acquire levels that in science fiction have only been imagined at the level of HAL 9000 "" although we hope that without the same results "".
At the moment there are no dates that serve as an estimate to get an idea of when we could see SAMI working in a Samsung terminal. The most prudent views suggest that to achieve the results that are proposed for this application, we could wait between three and five years until we find it in a device. In any case, they do not comment on the question of whether it would be made available to users in beta mode previously, as in fact happened with Siri on the iPhone and iPad ”” with the iOS 7 version of the Apple operating system it was when this virtual assistant has left its testing phase ””.
Seen in this way, although it is time to call for patience, what is anticipated from the hand of Samsung would be more than a mere task organizer that works with voice commands, starting to be considered as a means to be able to control, in an integrated way, a whole family of devices that coordinate their operation at the user's request.
