jay-h (6/4/2012)
I did not understant what IBM's objection was when I read the news article. How does this differ from doing a Google or Bing search?Not that Siri interests me much, I don't need to chit chat with my computer.
Imaging you work for IBM research and set an appointment "We have a meeting about the voice response for Waston program". Apple can now infer that IBM is working on voice recognition for the Watson supercomputer. Enough of those, or perhaps even more detailed personal reminders are potential trade secret leaks.
This could be much more of a problem than a search engine, which is enough of an issue.