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Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman on the pitfalls of Apple’s voice-activated system Siri and the outlook for Facebook shares.
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Someone at your office or on the -- speaking right into their iPhone talking act scenery ask a question get an answer okay.
Don't -- MarketWatch is Jon Friedman among these serial all the new iphones and support that is not a friend -- -- welcome back good to see you again.
Series was a big -- -- as a breakthrough yet has this thing a question -- back -- you know like it.
I don't like it.
And you talk back at it but -- -- you want you can as a question without getting the answer you want.
-- its program to answer factual questions capital of Kansas how this is three times three.
I can find that myself OK so are you saying this is just your opinion.
Old you know for a fact that consumers don't like it don't use it and it's not a breakthrough but my opinion but also -- for the for the people as well that they've tried it.
-- commercials the so enticing on television you have.
-- nationality John Malkovich and Samuel Jackson -- you know freezing and having fun with -- -- figure well those those who were pretty cool -- it's true.
But unfortunately about the cool.
Do you think this is one of the for us if not the -- Real.
Thalia -- out on me and if -- if the market agrees with your opinion -- It's a failure of apple will be very unusual -- -- of the first in the post Steve Jobs here of apple which is telling too because.
I'm sure jobs knew about this and probably approved it before you -- the way.
But I think jobs would have -- -- little more smoothly than the current administration apple is doing.
What -- you read market emotion well what's wrong with the good advertising campaign that draws you into -- -- to use it well because you get embittered when the preview what the campaign is kind of -- new direction you wanted you shouldn't be going in.
They say on TV how fast it moves for example civil justice -- question about about recipe that moves right away.
In real life it's not that fast what is it is just the first iteration yes I mean yes -- could improve this thing.
They better but you're saying that if jobs are still around they wouldn't put it out until it would really really -- I would believe so plus I think that the advertising campaign would have been a little more even tempered and adding jobs had a real real genius at marketing.
What do you think we want to the Bible is not perfect yet it's seems really -- -- but you don't want them -- they did well we kind of -- this is -- one point -- I did you know that they'll be more iterations out of but that -- in my family has -- that it uses that a news -- for whatever you go and you do right I don't watch.
Mr.
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We talk about this system is the main street Alpha Bank cut.
Never doubt on the floor but tell me about FaceBook you got it right and is -- authority box solution that today.
I I do this IPO it was was a can of worms from the sort of somebody promise -- that seem hard to keep -- -- -- -- and they see the results.
I wanna put somebody on this program who said this thing is going to the -- and I love FaceBook is -- fifty is going to sixty.
I wanna talk to -- now they're hiding right now is all I am -- my guys like you -- who say I saw this coming I wouldn't doubt in my colleague did that's true that's true my these series but I want.
I don't afraid of a point we appreciate your point of view on Syria will be following it thank you very.
