TechCrunch touts Winston, a smartphone digital voice, as Siri’s younger brother. I
think Winston sounds older. Honestly this would make sense that the grouchy, cantankerous
older brother comes in after Siri reached fame, only to say, “F*** what you
want to know. I’m not telling you where to kidnap a child! I’ll be the judge of
important information in your life from now on.”
Not to mention, the son of
a Brit and a robot that has no bearing on punctuation. Winston’s better
than my Garmin, Nancy Botwin – I received little directional Botwin during the
Weeds season where Nancy starts boinking everyone and not paying attention to
her kids, which I then equated with the bitchy attitude my Garmin gives me when
I get turned around.
What did you just say, Nancy? Lack-a-shore Drive? You mean
Lakeshore? Baaashwick Avenue? Bushwick, Nancy, it’s Bushwick? Arriving at Dat
Hizzle? What in the hell did you just say? Oh yeah… That’s what I call the crib
in the hood. You’re right. I’m sorry for yelling, Nancy.
Anyway, Winston gives users an AM daily briefing (video here) of news
from actual news outlets and the news that’s unfortunately more important to
most people these days from Facebook and other social media sites.
The app is pretty sweet… I wouldn’t mind having a new friend
that cares about the things I do and only talks to me for a couple minutes a
day. Sounds perfect, except it’s only available for iPhone. Of course it is.
And I just bought a new Galaxy SIII, which is way cooler than the new iPhone,
plus with the current amount of background data I have running at all times, I
can toast bread on the small, blazing hot, computer.
Winston.
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