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First of all, this question needs to be a lot specific. Comparison between Bits Pilani Pilani campus and one of the new IITs is meaningless. Same applies to comparison between an old IIT and Bits Goa/Hyderabad/Dubai(?) campuses.Secondly, what makes a college better depends on the individual and his requirements. But answering the question in a general sense, the real bugger is comparison between Bits Pilani Pilani Campus and an old IIT like IIT Bombay.Since this answer requires a subjective treatment,there is a lot of ground to cover, so hold back,stretch your hands,relax, make yourself a coffee and find a good couch as this will take time to read.First lets analyze on points that are believed to give Bits an edge over the IITS:(1)Reservation:Reservation is one messed up system and we do have students above 5k rank in core branches, boasting their IITB credentials. Situation is even worse in other IITs as IITB witnesses higher cutoffs than any other IIT. However the rest half are arguably the cream students of the country and for a population of 1.3 billion, that’s saying a lot. This makes IITB an incredibly competitive place and in general, the level and quality of competition is definitely much higher than that in Bits.Besides majority of students in Bits also have ranks above 5k ,so even the reserved crowd logically offers more or less the same competition. IIT(old)ians in departments like electrical and cs, whether reserved(OBC) or not, still possess much higher ranks than Bitsians. The OBC btech cutoff for cs and electrical at iitb remains around 300 and 1200 respectively. Nobody with right mindset would have chosen Bits with those ranks. SC/ST’s are whole other stories but they comprise just 22% of the population. So the general crowd in an old IIT based on entrance tests is better than the regular Bitsian crowd. The best in IIT are at whole new level while the mediocre are not so far behind.The impact of reservation on overall quality is felt only in new iits. It may feel not difficult (but only in your first year) to score more than the average even if you perform poor, thanks to reservation. On the flip side, try to score maximum marks in an exam and you will regret being born.(2)No attendance: This is a major argument given against IITs that Bits follows zero attendance policy and hence gives more freedom to its students. However this hardly makes a difference as professors in Bits ensure attendance through unannounced tut tests or covering stuff out of slides in lectures. Besides most of the courses at IITB also are relaxed on attendance and it really depends on the professor. Most of the courses in the first year IITB had no attendance requirement. Following a passion during lecture hours doesn’t make much sense if you want a decent academic record. The only relaxation that zero attendance policy provides is that one will still be allowed to give term end exams even with zero attendance, or one can pay uninterrupted attention to private endeavors like startup, etc.(3)Dual Degree: This is really a very nice policy at Bits where they have integrated Msc courses with BE ones. Hence one can graduate with both a bachelors and a masters degree in different streams and this allows for a lot of flexibility. Any engineering stream of one's choice can be clubbed with the dual at a low cgpa cutoff. Dual degrees certainly provide Bits an edge over IITs. There is no such concept at IITB.For people smartly pointing out that IITB also has dual degree courses, take a deep breath and try to understand what's being said here. The dual courses in iit is very different from bits pilani even though both are called dual degrees. See comments for more info.(4)Practice Schools: Another good policy of Bits. Students are almost certain to be interned at the end of second and fourth year. There are extremely high number of opportunities at IITB also but there is no certainty. The minor flip side is that you cannot attend PS2 if you missed PS1.(5)Deciding own timetable: In Bits you can choose own timetable but that’s only if you have a high PR number(randomly generated each semester) else you will have to compromise on your instructors/schedule. All this is not of much consequence overall.(6)Fees: Fees in Bits is a tad higher than IITB but you get exemption on fees if you perform well in Bits. There is no such provisions at IITB. SC/STs study at this premier most institute for free and no reason at all. The closest you can come is a Merit-Cum-Need or some private scholarship. All this is pretty irritating.Edit: Fees is no longer a tad bit higher in bits as the administration there treats the students as gold mines for its vision 2020.(7)Seclusion: Pilani is located very remotely with nearest cities being Delhi and Jaipur, both around 200 kms far. So for every little initiative or career requirement you have to shuttle between cities. Though the enthusiasm for startup is great at Pilani, one has to travel to Delhi again and again to run it. IITB being located right in the financial capital of the nation offers much more opportunities and attracts companies more.Comparison of experience at both the institutesCampus: Both the institutes have a breathtaking campus to boast, with IITB campus being larger and greener, while the Pilani campus being cosier and less green due to the geographical location of Pilani. The Bits campus is slightly better maintained and has got more places where you can simply lay down,relax and stargaze or something like that. The Saraswati Temple , the grass area of NAB(New Academy Buildings), and the Sky Lawns are great places to spend time in peace.Meanwhile the IITB campus feels more spacious and has a cooler appeal to it.Overall, both campuses are worth taking a pause to appreciate their beauty.2.Clubs: Club culture in Bits is more or less meaningless. The first few weeks of a fresher is spent in tedious interactions with seniors and if you can impress them, you might get selected in a department. Interactions for clubs are meaningless as ultimately auditions for them are what that matters eventually. Further if you somehow couldn’t make into a club that you are interested in, there is very little possibility you will be given a second chance. However once you do get in a C/D, you will spend a good time. One positive aspect of this is that senior-junior interaction at bits is very high from the start. You make contacts with tons of seniors effortlessly, which kind of felt missing at IITB where there was minimal interaction in the beginning. Gradually however, through various channels like working in institute bodies, department events, etc. you get in touch with a large number of seniors in IIT also.In IITB, scenario is different as “enthu” is the main thing that’s required. Anyone can work if one is interested. For tech teams, of course they expect you have the required skills if you join late, but the process is much less stringent. The orientation of each club were exciting events and the participation was purely voluntary. This system works way better as you get to freely experiment with the work involved in different bodies at your comfort level and then gauge your interests accordingly. All this freedom and opportunity to explore varied sorts of work was highly missing in Bits.Both institutes have clubs for most of the activities.3.Ragging: Zero(rather negative) in IITB, dismal in Bits Pilani. Only during interactions when you visit seniors, you might be asked to give your intro and stuff but everything’s under control. In IITB if a senior is caught in a fresher hostel in the first month, he will face a hard time justifying that.Besides that, there is an excellent system at IITB to provide a 4th-year student as ISMP mentor to the freshers to assist them in all their difficulties and guide them, and a DAMP mentor (of the same branch) in the following years to help you regarding all academic or curriculum problems. Such a system really ensures one gets a proper guidance and stay comfortable with the insti life and policies.4.Facilities:Mess- Food quality is definitely better at IITB especially in senior hostels. IIT mess is markedly better as it serves 4 times a day, provides a lot more variety to food than Bits’ mess, has wifi, TV and is more spacious. However, Bits somewhat compensates that by having a nice canteen in the mess itself and by organizing regional dinners called “Grubs”, but even that is retaliated in IITB by organizing multiple gala dinners and hostel events.Library-Bits library is better hands down. Its much larger, aesthetically much more beautiful, calmer and has got an excellent environment and facilities to read and study. Obviously, all sorts of books and facilities are available at both libraries, it is just that the Bits library is better built and maintained. Plus its got a nice CCD machine.Workshop-Mechanical Workshop in Bits was much better than at IITB with more shops and a stricter first-year course that focused heavily on the details of the processes involved. Plus the equipments were provided in the workshop itself and needn’t be bought, unlike at IITB.Internet-The net speed at Bits made me laugh and cry at the same time. Wifi speed is okayish while Lan speed is laughable. There were restrictions on many sites. The only relief was the software labs in NAB but that too was closed after midnight. One had to rely on mobile data outside hostels and DC++ to download stuff.IITB, on the other hand, offers high Lan and wifi speed clocking around 100mbps and has got wifi in every building. There is no restriction of any kind, except torrents. So IITB has a lot better internet connectivity.Hospital-Bits had a medical center that closed down in the evening(lol) and in cases of emergency, you would have to call the warden who will in turn either come himself with his car or send for an ambulance. Besides one cannot expect very good medical services in a small town like Pilani. The medical center was also not very up to the mark.The IIT hospital is a very large one with 24-hour emergency service, very sincere ambulance service and highly skilled doctors. A medical file of each student is maintained and the medicines are supplied free/subsidized rates. One can find medical assistance for any trouble.Hostel-Bits has better living conditions :P if you think for 4 years. Gandhi, SR,Ram and Buddh bhawans are very nicely built and are spacious. Rest all hostels can be described as “meh”. The rooms are sufficiently large, open; no space crunch so hostels are only one story high. There are small courtyards in the hostels where one can play cricket, badminton, etc. and the common room had TT tables, TV and CCD service at night. Any complaint was immediately dealt with. However the washrooms in older hostels were miserable and cleaning staff wasn’t very sincere.IITB hostel rooms for the first year are as good as it gets, offering a very nice view of Sameer hills from the windows and with a nice large Refugee area on the 7th floor where one can chill out and enjoy the scenic beauty of the Powaii area(including Vihar and Powaii lakes). The common rooms are spacious and have TT and foosball tables. Besides rooms get cleaned once every month by the staff. However things go somewhat ugly after the one year paradise. The hostels for sophomores and third year UG male students seem no less than haunted places with rooms small enough to put slums at Dharavi to shame and old enough to remind us of the colonial era.Edit: Most of the crowd in the older hostels have been shifted to the newly formed Hostel 18 with single rooms, which has top notch infrastructure and facilites.For any recreation, one needs to go to SAC which is not very far away.Infrastructure:The Saraswati Temple,Rotunda, NAB area and FD5 are really well built and comfortable to spend time in. The Bits campus is small so reaching from one place to another usually take no longer than 15 minutes. However the SAC and GymG(sports ground) were small and very ordinary and there was not much scope to pursue a new skill/sport if you are a beginner, or barring a few activities there was not much emphasis overall on extra-currics. IITB on the other hand has a very good Lecture Hall Complex and excellent facilities at SAC, better roads in the campus, more comfortable classrooms and really nice auditoriums.Transport in Pilani is a big pain in the ass with no direct trains and limited connectivity to the nearest station Loharu. Inside the campus, the autos charged profusely though there was never a need to ride with them. On the other hand, IITB is located right in the city and inside the campus, tumtum services are good and the autos charge moderately.The FD2/FD3 divisions in Bits were old. IITB does have more halls for teaching and better maintained department classrooms.5.Sex Ratio: Both are engineering colleges at the end of the day. Be prepared to die single, no exceptions here.6.Life in the campus:In bits life was more chilled out(or lite) as the academic pressure was a little lesser and the no attendance rule always cut off some slack. Beside the late night culture in bits is really popular and the campus is much more alive at night. Places like ANC, SR reddy , Rotunda see a lot of footfall and team meets. Such thing is missing at iitb as people mainly gather in the canteens but don’t roam around the campus or carry out their business too late at night.There are many places in Bits where one can hang out to eat or celebrate. There were reddys for each of the 14 hostels, ANC, Sky Lawns and a few restaurants inside the campus. As compared to that, IITB also has a similar case with many canteens and cafes to eat. However, outside the Pilani campus, there were not many options. The Connought place was at a stone’s throw but had substandard food at high prices. There were very few restaurants/bars outside, no Dominoes, no McDonalds,no anything. On the other hand, outside the campus of IITB there is Hiranandani and the whole Mumbai city. Obviously there is no further need to mention anything more, you can explore new places and restaurants every day of the year if you want to.Being located in city area has its own perks. There is an ocean of options if one wants to hang out or plan a one day trip in IITB, notably for trekking. In Pilani, there is a lot of seclusion and less exposure. To have any little excursion or adventure outside the campus, one has to consider Delhi or Jaipur.Freedom: In IITB the institute gives somewhat more freedom to its students. You can leave or enter the campus at any time and roam outside all night if you want. In Pilani until this year, girls had to return back to their rooms by 10pm which I guess, sucked a lot, and is a pretty seneseless rule. Further there is no restriction in iitb to enter hostels of the opposite sex until 10 pm.Edit on the request of Navneet Prabhat : boys are not allowed to enter the girl's hostel at all(Mira Bhavan) in Bits Pilani :PYou don’t need to take your wallet when you go out of your room in Bits. Your ID card takes care of that as transactions in most of the shops happen against your mess bill. So its a good step towards going cashlessWeather: The weather at Bits is another pain in the ass. Being located in Rajasthan, the temperature goes from 45C to all the way down to -2C. The rains are torrential and sometimes choke the campus. Mumbai on another hand remains mild, showery and pleasant all the year long.Lingo: There is virtually nothing to call a lingo at iitb. Words like craxx and machauu seems too forced to be used in regular conversations. In bits “lite” culture is really popular and the lingo was addicting. Words like “phoda”, “ghot” really slip out of the mouth.Fests: Oasis is not very interesting and rather a little over-hyped. Yes I said it. Not sure about being the second best but surely it lags behind Mood-I. The only flip side to Mood-I is that the institute provides no food or accommodation to the first year students. However loads of people get room retention on the pretense of projects under profs, IB work or sports camps.A lot of cultural, entertainment, technical and academic events are organised all the year round in both the colleges, the frequency being more in IITB.DC++: Dc++ sharing at IITB is very poor. Not many hubs and very limited files. Meanwhile at Bits, DC++ was the lifeline with many hubs and almost all sorts of files were available. Plus I don't believe IITB can ever have a DoPo of its own :P7.Academics:The first few weeks at both the colleges felt same in terms of quality,pressure and peer group. However differences segregated out a lot gradually.In Bits, almost all the courses were dealt superficially with a less in-depth treatment. Many courses could easily be nailed by properly covering the slides and practicing a particular set of questions. There were rare surprises in the evaluative papers in many courses although some courses like CP, Meow, EG, Bio and Thermo were challenging. Situation in IITB was different as the courses are much more detailed and depend more on implementation of the concepts taught rather than simply understanding them. Plain slide reading wouldn’t ensure a good grade at IITB. Conclusively, the evaluatives in Bits didn’t compel one to appreciate or explore the subject.The quality of interaction between students and the instructor during lectures was dismal. Some professors like Rishikesh Vaidya, Sunil Kumar, and Vishal Saxena were amazing and even received ovations. However lectures were usually rushed and less time was devoted to entertain doubts. The quality of discussions was also very ordinary. A lot of this depends on the peer group also. In IITB according to my experience the students take a much greater interest in initiating these discussions which sort of felt missing in Bits.In IITB, the instructors are academically more qualified and the student-prof interaction is very rich. The doubts are highly entertained and the discussions are very stimulating. In general the professors at IITB teach better, focus on intricate points, and resolve doubts effortlessly. Overall for similar courses at both the places, IITB covered them in a more comprehensive and conceptual manner, rather than stressing on formulas or on concise/shallow coverage of more topics; as was the case in Bits.A lot of open-book exams were held in bits which really was a good thing. Open book exams were a lot more challenging and really tested one’s level of understanding of the topic/course. There were fewer open book tests in IITB.The tutorials in Bits were taught by professors while in IITB mostly senior students took them. Obviously a professor with PHD has a more in depth grasp on the course and a much higher expertise in teaching than a 2nd/3rd year student. Thus tuts in Bits were more beneficial than tutorials at IITB, provided one opted for decent profs when deciding the timetable.Relative grading is followed at both the colleges. In bits performance of students are evenly distributed and its easier to score a good grade and even if one messes a course, the grade doesn’t fall down drastically. In IITB, scoring a top grade can suck the life out of you and if you ruin your paper, the grades slip down sharply. Even 0.5 marks are sufficient to push down the grade. The peer group is very competitive,which is natural considering that majority of under 500 rankers choose IITB. Consequently, academic pressure at Bits is more relaxing and less stressful.A good initiative at IITB is that each student has to compulsorily have to enroll in NSO(sports),NSS(social work) or NCC(cadet corps) zero credit course. This was missing in Bits.8. Internship opportunities: Probably this point is one of the most impactful one to establish a contrast between the two institutes. Internship and research opportunities offered by an engineering college, particularly in the third year, are the benchmark for deciding its eminence and IIT-B for all purposes comprehensively edges over Bits in this regard. Right at the onset of the fifth semester, a plethora of companies, universities and firms approach the institute for extending internship and work opportunities, and a good majority of them extend PPOs to the students after the third year summer. The situation is such that maximum students get interned by the end of the semester in a highly reputable company or a notable university with lucrative stipends, just because of the sheer volume of companies/univs that approach IITB.In Bits, the large majority of students mostly venture on opportunities that they have to create for themselves, be it through apping or personal contacts, for the third year summer. Barring a few, the masses either spend the summer learning stuff on their own, without a professional guidance, or engage in self undertakings, which is quite a waste of a golden period. However the 7th sem is spent in PS -2 which does provide a comprehensive working experience with reasonable stipend.In general, the trend to intern in a company or take up a research project is markedly more in IIT-B, where staying idle even in the second year summer is scorned upon.9.Alumni Support: This is again an important area where IIT-B considerably triumphs over Bits-Pilani. There was hardly a body in Bits that meliorated the student-alumni interaction in the institute to benefit the students. In contrast, the Student Alumni Relations Cell (SARC) in IITB, is a committed and highly active body to foster productive and constructive relations between the students, the alumni and the institute through a variety of initiatives, most notably the Alumni Student Mentorship Program (on the same lines as ISMP and DAMP), and Alumination (a plethora of events for career boosting and personal guidance). Consequently, the alumni side engagement is also very high, leading to enrichment and high networking opportunities.10.Tag value: No doubt tag value of IITB is more marketable than that of Bits Pilani. This difference is even more pronounced internationally. The local population also tend to respect the IIT tag more, no matter whether you enter by merit or through bogus means like reservation. That’s a hard fact and there are no if or buts.11.Connection of Campuses: It doesn’t matter whether you graduate from Bits Pilani or Bits Goa, you will get the same graduation certificate and treatment by every recruiter. The course structure, curriculum and administrative policies at all campuses are identical. In IITs this is not the case and each IIT isn’t bound by same curriculum and policies.12.Experience after one year: Iitb definitely felt like a more dynamic institute with a hell lot of more opportunities to learn and apply after the first year. The aggressive and productive environment was sort of missing in Bits. The provisions are such that one can pursue whatever one wants whenever one wants in IITB. The programs like ITSP, SOS and SOC, plus surplus internship opportunities, coordinator work, social programs, summer courses, adventure trips, and various other workshops at IITB felt missing a lot at Bits where maximum students are compelled to waste their summers doing nothing or next to nothing. Further over-viewing the curriculum at the end of the year, IITB curriculum felt more relevant, rigorous, qualitative and productive. There is much more clarity regarding future years. Further Bits also pays the price of seclusion as the IIT experience felt more wholesome. The peer group is also very challenging in IITB that automatically induces one to not to lag behind.So that indeed was a comprehensive comparison between the two institutes. And though IITB is definitely better than Bits Pilani Pilani Campus on many parameters, including the important ones, the Pilani campus is one of the most unique ones in India. Furthermore all the comparisons I have done is on the basis of limited knowledge gathered over just one year and there can be a lot of aspects that might make a difference.Besides an ideal college also depend on what courses/stream one wishes to pursue. Leaving CS/Elec at IITB to study the same at Bits is one horrible decision, and leaving the same at Bits to study non core courses/courses you have no interest in, at IITB just for the sake of it, is also a very bad decision. Needless to say, perspective guides me . Someone else might observe things differently.The real difference to a college is brought about by its students. Since old IITs has top rankers of JEE, they definitely accept the cream. If the same students go into Bits, it may supersede IITs.So “Is Bits a good college?”: yes. Its rare for a completely autonomous private college with no government support and ties: to engage in a somewhat close battle with completely government funded premier institutes, and still maintain its identity and reputation both internationally and locally. Furthermore Bits has really been efficient at progressing on limited resources and finding its own way. If it had its own lavish research funding and government support, it would improve way much more than other colleges.However nothing can be said for 5–6 years in the future. The way Bits is going on regarding low cutoffs, increased strength and fees has really put its reputation at stake.I hope I have been thorough and gave a glimpse of what it is like to spend time in these colleges and hence give my version to the long debate of which college trumps over the other.Leave in comments any correction or any more parameter that should have been discussed.Edit: More than 100 upvotes in less than a day. Thanks for the response.Edit2: Addd a lot of stuff in the answer.

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These numbers are approximate, sometimes there are slight delays for various reasons.For the first 2 sold logos you get 52% and after that, you get 72% of the sale price. We don't deduct a PayPal fee from your share anymore, which was about 3% to 5% (effective May 21, 2014), but you will likely pay a fee to PayPal upon receiving the funds.Your profileYour profile only shows your own approved logos and the designs you bookmarked on the site. Any other information you enter in your profile is private. It is not allowed to reveal your private information anywhere on the site. Designers and clients are meant to be anonymous; only known by their usernames.Working with clientsWhen a client buys your logo in most cases you will be contacted for customization. You can and should communicate with the client directly. Usually the clients need further work on the identity and you can work with client directly for an extra fee outside of StockLogos. One of the main objectives of StockLogos is to connect designers and clients for a mutually fruitful business relationship. You're not allowed to sell your logos posted on StockLogos to clients who found your logo on StockLogos outside of StockLogos.Selling your logos on your ownIf you happen to sell one of your designs on your own to your own clientele you have the responsibility to immediately remove the same logo from StockLogos. You're liable for any event when the same design is sold to two different clients.What rights are you sellingEach logo is only available to be purchased once. When a client purchases a logo, he is buying all rights to that logo from you. This means he has exclusive and complete control over the logo's publication, distribution, and reproduction without any time limit. This is necessary for the client to make the logo unique to his organization. It also provides him with the flexibility to use it in whatever way is best for his organization. You can still display your sold logo in your portfolio for the sole purpose of promoting your services. If the client requests to remove it from your portfolio he has the right to do so and you have to comply.Source: Selling logosIf you have more questions about house selling in USA please come to Wilmington Real Estate and contact me!

What are the Apple Voice First announcements from WWDC 2019 and why are they important?Today June 3rd, 2019 Apple announced two fundamental aspects of their Voice First roadmap to the future:Voice Control— OS Accessibility controlSiri Shortcuts— Conversational Siri Shortcuts + Siri Suggested AutomationBoth aspects are a massive step forward for Apple and create a robust foundation for the potential of innovation. Surprisingly enough both voice features do not connect directly. They are separated by use cases, and design goals and this aspect may not be very clear today. Yet they form a powerful foundation to a Voice First future for Apple.Voice Control has been part of the iPhone and iPod touch since iOS 3.0. It's similar to Siri, but more limited in scope and aim. Yet on the other side Siri simply can not do some things Voice Control has been able to do for years. Voice Control only lets you control certain parts of iOS and MacOS. It is rightly classified as an accessibility feature. In fact Apple even has a user guide to choose from Voice Control or Siri [1] as both can not operate at the same time.“Use Voice Control instead of Siri on iPhone (iOS 12)Instead of using Siri, you can use Voice Control to make calls and control music playback. For example, if you can’t use Siri because you’re not connected to the Internet, you can use Voice Control for music playback.Note: When you turn on Voice Control, you can’t talk to Siri.”Voice Control and Siri are similar in the aspect that they both use speech recognition as a user interface. However Voice Control has a family history reaching back to July 29, 1993 when Apple releases the Macintosh Quadra/Centris 660av computers with a full AT&T DSP Chip, the first DSP built into a consumer computer.Specimen of a 1993 advertisement for Apple PlainTalk.The PlainTalk Of Apple Voice ControlComing 18 years before Siri, PlainTalk was the first Apple system software to recognize and synthesize speech [2]. Apple Macintalk was the first synthesize speech system on the Macintosh system on January 24th, 1984.The original premise of PlainTalk was to “control” the computer as a proxy to what you would have typed or clicked on. Although PlainTalk was tone of the most advanced system to recognize and synthesize speech in a consumer computer. PlainTalk became part of Macintosh System 7.1.2 and continues on in modified forms up to the latest MacOS and iOS.By the late 1990s PlainTalk became more of an accessibility product then a general purpose consumer product. This is because there was no intelligence in the system and the user was simply speaking commands that replaced keyboard input and mouse clicks. It was cumbersome and frustrated to many users that did not have a direct accessibility need.In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and earlier PlainTalk’s speech recognition was voice-command oriented only, not intended for dictation. It could be configured to listen for commands when a hot key is pressed, after being addressed with an activation phrase such as "Computer", or "Macintosh", or without prompt with visual and textual feedback about listening status, available commands and actions. It can also communicate back with the user using speech synthesis.The early versions of the speech recognition provided full access to the menus. This support was soon removed as it required too many system resources and recognition performance suffered. It was renamed in Mac OS X 10.3 as "universal access technology". The user could launch items located in a special folder, called "Speakable Items" by speaking the item name while the system is in listening mode. Apple shipped a number of AppleScripts in this folder. Additional functionality was also provided by individual apps that supported the system. There was also an API that let programs define and modify an available vocabulary. For example, the Finder provides a vocabulary for manipulating files and windows.By OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Apple introduced Dictation under Accessibility and Voice Control and it was intended for general text input and transcriptions. Originally, it required sending the audio data to Apple servers for processing by OS X 10.9 Mavericks Apple renamed this Voice Control and added the option to download support for dictation without an Internet connection for enhanced privacy.From Siri To SiriOS, SeriouslySiri has a completely different family history. With Siri, Apple is using the results of over 40 years of research funded by DARPA via SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center. Siri Inc. was a spin-off of SRI Intentional through the Personalized Assistant That Learns Program (PAL) and Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes (CALO)Program [3]. Siri has speech recognition and speech synthesis like Voice Control but is built on AI platforms that determine intents that may not be directly related to control of the computer system. Siri was one of the first true AI Intelligent Assistants. Announced on October 4th, 2011 Siri was Steve Jobs last acquisition and at the time of his passing, he thought Siri would be a very large part of Apple’s future.By March 22nd, 2017 Apple announced it acquired the 3 person company that built Workflow [4]. Workflow was an automation app for iOS that let you create workflows. A workflow is made of a series of actions, executed in a single flow from top to bottom, similar to AppleScript and HyperCard. You would press the Play button at the top, and Actions will execute, one after the other; once it’s done, the output of a workflow the result will be displayed at the bottom of the chain of actions or communicated visually or using Siri’s voice. Apple has since renamed Workflow to Siri Shortcuts.Interestingly enough PlainTalk in the 1990s had AppleScript execution ability and it was possible to create very complex actions controlling the computer and just about all software menus and actions via PlainTalk AppleScripts.Two Paths Diverge In VoiceToday Voice Control and Siri with Siri Shortcuts are not connected. They are two completely different projects and products with-in Apple. This is a fundamentally large flaw in the uniformity people come to expect from Apple. From the user perspective, they see this two systems as voice interaction with the computer and do not make a distinction that one is primarily for Accessibility functionality and the other is a Voice First assistant. Indeed Apple took great effort to present Voice Control in this manner, it still is a glaring inconsistency that this is not one system with Accessibility features that reveal their functionality to the user as needed or requested. I have little doubt that in future versions these two systems will combine. However I feel strongly it should have happened in 2019.Specimen video showing Apple Voice Control in use.Voice Control allows any user to bypass the keyboard, mouse and touch screen with their voice on iOS and MacOS to control the functions of the OS and apps running on the OS. In a fundamental way it is a replacement of the keyboard, mouse and touch screen for those that may not be able to control these as parts of the user interface in a traditional manner.The new version of Voice Control in the new versions of iOS and MacOS does use many AI aspects but this is more weighted to understanding the intent of dictation, like “Add heart Emoji”. Voice control allows for rich text editing features that let you make corrections as you dictate. It also allows you to navigate comprehensively using voice commands and voice gestures. There are developer APIs that can deeply connect to Voice Control but the system places numbers or names next to everything you can tap and superimpose a grid onscreen to “Voice tap” or “Voice click” when there aren’t direct controls or buttons accessible.Voice Control does not use Siri directly but can use some Siri Shortcuts. It is also very difficult to allow for Siri and Voice Control to coexist on iOS and MacOS simultaneously. Currently the user will need to choose one over the other.Clearly Apple has made Voice Control decidedly an accessibility feature. Although no longer deeply hidden they moved the Accessibility menus to the top of iOS and MacOS Settings for easier discovery. Apple also allows new button and swipe access to Voice Control on iOS.Voice Control will use the camera on the device to detect if the user is actually speaking to the system by detecting the user's attention focus. It will also detect if the user is authorized to access the device. This is a simple but uniquely powerful feature. Much like FaceID this feature shows a path for how Voice First systems can understand who the user is talking to and determine a course of action.The New Siri Shortcuts OS Integrated AppIn the first version of Siri Shortcuts users could create their own voice commands to launch a favorite app or a specific action. For example “order pizza” could trigger a mobile order on the Dominos pizza app. With the updated Siri Shortcuts, developers can suggest a voice command and users can opt to instal it with a tap of a button to be available by Siri voice interaction in the future.The Siri Shortcuts app is now built into iOS 13. It features an enhanced new gallery view that lets users install preconfigured shortcuts from the developers of your installed Apps and from Apple. Shortcuts can also be paired with actions from other apps, with information passing between apps. And with the new Automations tab, users can set up shortcuts to run automatically based on events and triggers.The new Siri Shortcuts now allows parameters to make the flow of interaction more conversational. Called Conversational Shortcuts, in the WWDC demo a user wanted to find something to cook from their preferred recipes app launched via a Shortcut that displayed a list of their favorite recipes. When they picked a recipe from the list, it would then take the user to that recipe and start playing the cooking instructions. This is allows Siri to ask follow-up questions with full continuity.The Conversational Shortcuts allow Siri can to ask follow-up questions, which allows your shortcuts to pass parameters along the way to any app and Siri itself. For example, when a user says “Order takeout” Siri can ask “Which order would you like?” and present a list of favorite orders to choose from a food ordering app.Conversational Shortcuts are a profoundly powerful feature. As it is a new pipeline of communication passing information and personalization. In effect Siri is writing Siri mini apps in real-time. Although currently this is limited to just the Shortcuts framework, it is an extraordinarily powerful feature that is accessible to non programmers in a simple scripting environment.Siri Suggestions and Suggested Events allows Siri to learn the user’s routines and to suggest relevant shortcuts from your app at just the right time on iOS and watchOS. Siri can also detect events in your apps and create helpful suggestions to add them to Calendar, or reminders to check in with your app, and directions when needed. This will help those who've never used Siri Shortcuts before their habits and personalize them, adding AI-assisted templates for things like heading home to going to the gym.The Automations tab in the Shortcuts app allows users to set when to run any Shortcut when creating a custom command in the Siri Shortcuts apps. For instance, you could configure a Shortcut to run based on time of day, when you start a workout on your Apple Watch, when you connect to CarPlay. Automator workflows can be cascaded into very intricate actions that when paired with parameter passing.The editor in the updated Shortcuts app now enables full configuration of an app’s actions, including the ability to pass information in or out of the action through parameters. This allows an app’s actions to be combined with others for more robust, multi-step shortcuts. In practice, this would allow users to do something like run a Shortcut for a restaurant delivery app, choose their meals, place the order, then text the whole family what’s for dinner and when it will arrive.Siri Suggestions and Suggested Events helps users quickly accomplish tasks related to apps using their voice. Siri intelligently pairs users daily routines with apps to suggest convenient shortcuts right when they’re needed on the lock screen Search bar or from the Siri watch face.Siri also seems to be aligning to the new Apple Cards feature in iOS 13. Apple Cards allow small informational elements that are easily dismissed and can form the basis of a Voice First environment where ephemeral and contextual visual information can be presented as an overlay to the existing screen or even the lock screen. This feature is a requirement for a Voice First OS, like SiriOS.Because of Apple’s privacy centric approach, Siri Suggestions are held entirely on the device and is not on a cloud to be mined for adverting targeting or worse. Thus as Siri gets to know you at the deepest level yet, there is some comfort in knowing the system was designer to maintain privacy and security. Siri learns locally on the device to maintain privacy. Apple on-device CoreML will allow for BERT, DeepSpeech, Open AI GPT and many other AI based systems to run locally and not in the cloud. This is a dramatic contrast to any other Voice First platform. It is part of Apple’s big privacy commitment.Siri intelligence is a system wide enhanced feature that offers personalized suggestions in Apple Podcasts, Safari, and Maps. Siri can even detect reminders in messages and events in third-party apps. As you type longer, more descriptive sentences Siri can Conner to reminders that will automatically understand and provide relevant suggestions. For example when you’re chatting with someone in Messages, Siri recognizes possible reminders and makes suggestions for you to create them.Apple still has limited Siri to 12 domains and intents, like fitness, messaging, payments, or ride booking, integrated to let the user perform certain actions or intents in response to spoken commands and questions. The new Siri Shortcuts app allows for a work around, but at some point domains and intents need to be deeply indigenous to the OS to be effective and to monetize for the App developer in a conclusive manner.Siri Shortcuts do not currently work on MacOS directly. There is of course the ability to run Siri Shortcuts inside of Marzipan, which is essentially an iPadOS simulator. It will not be indigenous to MacOS at this point.A Big Step For Apple Voice First But This Is Not SiriOSToday Apple made great strides and fixed many elements they have lacked with Siri over the years. In a vacuum without the Voice First revolution of the last 5 years what Apple announced would have been stunning. However the future is Voice First as much as it was mobile and gesture based ten years ago and hyperlinked Internet twenty years ago and graphical and mouse driven thirty years ago. The primary user interface has changed about every 10 years since the dawn of the computer age [5].Specimen from the author demonstrating UI transitions form 1967 forward.Apple invented the talking computer in 1984, the talking and listening computer in 1993 and the talking and listening Voice First Intelligent Assistant in 2011. Over the last eight years, I think just about every informed and astute observer inside of and outside of Apple understand that Apple let Siri languish with benign neglect. This came about through a confluence of internal biases that always form in even the best legacy companies.Apple simply did not take the shift to Voice First ethos seriously. This became abundantly clear by 2015 as Amazon’s Echo products featuring Alexa became part of the a class of devices, Voice First devices that are the fastest adoption of any technology in history. I wrote the definitive article in 2015 that predicted Voice First and the explosions adoption that followed [6].Specimen chart showing Voice First as the fastest adopted technology in history.Like all true disruptions and paradigm shifts, the current leaders of technology simply find it impossible to fathom the changes. Even when it is presented with the indisputable facts of adoption on their own platforms. They see it as a feature and not a product. Compounding the problem is the industry observers and supporters that also deny there is a change. It becomes an echo chamber of Voice First is not the next thing.Yet the reality can be found empirically. It is user driven to a level never seen in the tech world. The youngest cohorts and the oldest cohorts are driving Voice First approaches on iOS, Google searches, millions of Alexa devices.I have been on record for over 10 years that Apple needs a VoiceOS, a SiriOS. Just as much as they need WatchOS, TVOS, iPadOS, iOS and MacOS. The only thing different is SiriOS can live independently on a VoiceFirst device or co-habituate with the other OSs to build a layer of AI based Voice First Intelligence on the system.Apple could allow access to SiriOS, with security via any device, even an Alexa device. This is how Apple Music should have been delivered to Alexa devices, through the intelligent channel of SiriOS connected through Alexa, Google Assistant or any other system. This is an “Apple Service” that is worthy of Apple as it can bring uniquely powerful Siri technology along with music, podcasts and video. Not only to control the functions but to contextually interact with the user. This can be an Apple subscription that is not equal to Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music. It would be an intelligent delivery channel.The Voice First future is not just about voice, it is not Voice Only and it is not about the direct accessibility of controlling the OS like Voice Control: “open photos, select number 8, copy…”. It is about the deep context Siri can form to actually get work done for you. This does not require “General Artificial Intelligence” as some folks in the tech world embarrassingly pronounce. It requires the system to know you, your goals and intents with deep context. And this can be done with no major advances in AI or chips. It just requires vision, leadership and a will to act. This is quintessential Apple. I wrote about this in early late 2018 [6], I said:“For Apple to be successful with any Voice First move, it is incumbent they build the best experience for the user and for the developer. This means a game changing way to monetize developers with a marketing system, like the App Store, but not an “app store” and a value proposition to the user.None of these options will take place if Siri is just an app or an appendage to iOS. It needs to have a clear path as a stand-alone OS that can be ambient. The first candidate device to have SiriOS would be a $99 Voice First device designed by Apple. SiriOS would become a co-OS on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch (limited) and Mac platform. It would run independently of the host OS yet interact with it on a global level. This sounds more complex then it is, SiriOS would coexist on top of Darwin. Apple Watch has an OS, Siri currently does not.It is foolish to try to retrofit this modern AI based SiriOS on top of an existing iOS or MacOS system. Clearly just like iOS is based on MacOS, SiriOS would also share this heritage with notable user guidelines, function and abilities that a Voice First OS requires. There is much more to this, but the rest would be best delivered to Apple directly and not in a public environment.Apple still has a window to make this vision of a SiriOS viable. I assert the window is about 24 months from the time of this writing. Apple can accept the market demand of millions of Voice First devices and shift their thinking, or they can continue to lose ground. The first step is to find a true Collaborate with the leading authority on the Voice First revolution. that has identified the future with a track record or they can try to find folks that are guessing about it. Either way Apple will need to find all the talent possible both technical and visionary to surpass the 11,000 person Alexa Army that is just about hiring everyone possible.”@tim_cook this guy here should be the head for #Siri I’m sure he can beat everyone else in the business ! https://t.co/3NXbfeeHuB— iPurav  (@Purav_Mehta) June 2, 2019Apple Is A Part Of The Voice First Revolution In A Big WayToday Apple has made a big advance in Voice First but there are fractures. Siri and Voice Control are from and in different worlds and they alone are not nearly enough for what will be needed in the next few years. Without SiriOS and a monetization system in 2019, this means the earliest Apple could realize SiriOS is WWDC 2020 and it will take 12 months for developers to gain traction to build apps. This means Apple will be sidelined to a greater degree until 2021 if there is not a big shift in leadership and vision of the future.Siri, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Control are great new features. With contrast to what Apple has done with Siri since it was announced this was in many ways in is Siri’s biggest advancements. From my perspective new Siri, Siri Shortcuts and Voice Control can be guided and merged to form a foundation to SiriOS. Perhaps this is on a roadmap at Apple. However they alone are not a consistent continuity of a bold future vision for Apple. They are fractured elements that do not fully connect with each other and across all Apple OSs and devices. They do not fully take advantage of Apple’s leadership in near-field Voice First with AirPods and to some degree Apple Watch.Thus today we can see parts that could be assembled into something grand. The work by the Siri Shortcuts team is perhaps some of the best work inside of Apple over the last few years. Yet it pains me greatly to see that this is all just an appendage to other host OSs with no evangelism and company-wide central focus and commitment to Voice First.Have no doubts, I do not count Apple out. I also do not hide the fact I am a life long fan and student of Apple. No matter what happens, Apple will be part of the future. The opportunity still exists for Apple to lead the sift to Voice First or follow it. But have no doubts Apple will be a part of it and Voice First will be the dominant way for a majority of folks to interact with what we call a computer over the next 10 years. Today with Siri Shortcuts and Voice Control Apple assured they will be a part of this future._____[1] Use Voice Control instead of Siri on iPhone[2] Bossing Your Mac with PlainTalk - TidBITS[3] Brian Roemmele's answer to Why is Siri important?[4] Here’s How Apple's Acquisition Of WorkFlow Will Help Siri.[5] Brian Roemmele's answer to Is it true that user interfaces change every 10 years?[6] There is A Revolution Ahead and It Has A Voice[7] Brian Roemmele's answer to What does Brian Roemmele mean when he says Siri should be its own operating system?