Remains of the Day: Rehearsal dinner

04.10.2011
Tomorrow's the , and boy, are people fired up: There's the Siri co-founder who's convinced Apple's announcement will , the company willing to fork over billions for a (big) piece of the action, and the familiar face that may make an appearance. I don't know about you, but the remainders for Monday, October 3, 2011 have fallen prey to the hype.

(9to5 Mac)

Could Apple's (supposedly) forthcoming Assistant feature ? The co-founder of virtual personal assistant software Siri certainly thinks so. Norman Winarsky told 9to5 Mac in an interview on Monday that he not only thinks the feature will be nifty, it'll be "a world-changing event." Why? Because, says he, "if the rumors are true, Apple will enable millions upon millions of people to interact with machines with natural language." Yes, yes, I know I should be scared about the doomsday potential of intelligent AI, but that fear is being shouted down by the thought of having an R2 unit .

(BGR)

To add another bit of fuel to the "One iPhone, or two?" fire, Sprint has supposedly guaranteed itself exclusivity to Apple's iPhone 5--by agreeing to purchase $20 billion worth of the new handsets (30 million units, give or take) over the next four years. Oh, is all?

(AppleInsider)