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.
The difference is that Google and Microsoft (Bing) are both known reputable companies that have made public, explicit statements about what they do and do not do with their data and how they protect the privacy of the search queries. And if they violate this promise a company like IBM can be reasonably sure that 1) it would get out because of their size and public profile, and 2) they have sufficient assets to be able to pay the damages that IBM could legitimately claim for failing to fulfill these promises.
Most of these things are NOT true for Apple's subcontractors.
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