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Whereas Siri can only perform tasks that Apple engineers explicitly implement, this new program, they say, will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities.

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.

iCab Mobile provides a wealth of nifty browser features. As well as a variety of default search engines to choose from, the app can save and restore form details, filter and block certain URLs, and import and export bookmarks from a desktop computer. If you share your iPad with others or are concerned about your browsing privacy, you can password protect iCab Mobile, and enable Guest Mode, which has limited privileges and its own set of bookmarks.