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Samsung just acquired Viv, the new voice assistant that made headlines months ago because it's developed by the creators of Siri. It's fantastic, check it out.

Siri was better when it launched than it is now in my opinion, Apple just didn't give the team the freedom they wanted back then because Apple is so anal about "privacy" of its users, so they left and started again from scratch Viv. The fun fact now is that Apple acknowledges that it messed up and heavily stunted Siri growth and they are trying to fix it, one can't help but wonder what Siri would be like as of now if the original team remained with Apple and continued developing Siri without restrictions.

I guess this is it then for Samsung, they clearly will not be using Google's assistant, this also means that Microsoft's dreams of making Cortona the default voice assistant on Android devices can be put to rest.