The iPhone 4s

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone The latest iPhone, released last Friday (14/10/2011), is the iPhone 4s and it now has the ability to understand speech and answer questions?! Is it getting to the stage where instead of categorising smart phones as computers, we should start the transition to robots? I wonder if there will be a hoover app any time soon?! Or maybe some way for our phones to do our washing up- that would be much appreciated by the way Apple! (Pretty please?) http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri-faq.html Anyways, this new friend built into the iPhone 4s is possible because of the new 'Siri' software, which is a personal assistant to help users with almost anything apparently.  The software is built for those of us (most of us) who like to test automated answering systems and can apparently even answer 'Will you marry me?'


Today it was revealed that this (being probably the biggest software change) is very popular with Apple lovers and newbies alike as today it was revealed that Apple has sold 'more than 4m of its new iPhone 4s smart phones.' http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri-faq.html This has, unsurprisingly, broken records of sales within the market, showing that Apple are still ahead in the market, despite Blackberry's desperate attempts to steal the limelight.  Blackberry of course were very unfortunate in the timing of their huge service failure that affected their global services! An article today http://nvonews.com/2011/10/17/blackberry-outage-may-further-help-increase-iphone-4s-sales/ suggests that as well as obviously the iPhone 4s, phones running Google's Android operating system may have benefited as a result of the service failure.  Humorously, it is claimed that during the time Blackberry's service went down ' crashes declined by 20 percent in Dubai and 40 percent in Abu Dhabi' http://www.mobiledia.com/news/112643.html supoosedly due to people not being distracted by their Blackberry smart phones.


Overall then, I think it is very clear that Apple are still moving forward, and at an astonishing rate! But will it always be the case of them being ahead of the rest?! Currently that looks highly likely, but the rate things happen at today, who can say?! More to follow on Apple's products! :)