Hyper Focused Media's Carl Williams writes, "Microsoft is planning on bringing their Windows Phone exclusive digital assistant, Cortana, to iOS and Android devices, according to Reuters. The largest problem with this series of events unfolding is the fact that Microsoft has this little thing called Windows Phone to worry about. Windows Phone only represents about 5.1 percent of the cell phone OS’s shipped in 2014, according to CustomsToday, which means there are millions of Windows Phone users. A large majority of those users are running devices that offer Cortana, a Windows Phone exclusive (soon to come to Windows desktop/tablets). If this does happen, Cortana will join other Microsoft apps/programs/services, such as Office and Bing Search, which have jumped ship from being Windows Phone exclusives to become cross platform in the phone/tablet market. What this means for Windows Phone though is troubling to say the least."
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The Verge: Cortana started off life as a digital assistant for Windows Phone, before making its way to Windows 10, iOS, and Android. With Windows Phone dead and very few people using Cortana on a PC, Microsoft has made the difficult decision to give up competing with Alexa and Google Assistant. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed earlier this year that the company no longer sees Cortana as a competitor to those other digital assistants, and that it’s embracing the idea of having rivals on its platform. We’re now starting to see how that will work, and what it means for the future of Cortana.
I was planning on getting a Windows phone this year, until the S6 Edge was announced.
Shame... MS has great phones, my girlfriend has one and she loves it.
But... I think they are way too late to the game.
Why would they share a feature with these two companies , how about they grow a set and tell these two companies to piss off.
What's the point of creating a product and features to then put the feature on a competing product.
the question is, is cortana better than siri or google speak?
If cortana does come to ios that would give me a better reason to get a microsoft band.
This isn't a bad thing. Windows Phone, even post-Lumia Denim, can't avoid the restrictions older/legacy software builds will face sooner or later. Windows Phone is NOT going anywhere -- it's just homogenized under Windows 10...