But Kittlaus points out that all of these services are strictly limited. Cheyer elaborates: “Google Now has a huge knowledge graph—you can ask questions like ‘Where was Abraham Lincoln born?’ And it can name the city. You can also say, ‘What is the population?’ of a city and it’ll bring up a chart and answer. But you cannot say, ‘What is the population of the city where Abraham Lincoln was born?’” The system may have the data for both these components, but it has no ability to put them together, either to answer a query or to make a smart suggestion. Like Siri, it can’t do anything that coders haven’t explicitly programmed it to do.
Kyle Jackson on 16 Feb 12"We should have guessed by Motorola's lengthy explanation of why it takes so long to work a new Android update on to an existing device, that it was subtly trying to prepare us for exactly that: a long wait. Sure enough, the company has revised its update chart and the news isn't as good as we originally hoped."
