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 08 Nov 11"Remember when you were a kid. You've eaten all your tea, your mum goes into the freezer and she pulls out an Ice Cream Sandwich for dessert. Happy times eh? Well HTC owners, prepare to return to that level of pure unadulterated joy, now that the Ice Cream Sandwich is back (albeit in smartphone form, making it almost certainly inedible) and that the Taiwanese tech lords have announced exactly which of its handsets will be getting a dose of the new Android 4.0 operating system."
