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Will Microsoft Launch TellMe for iPhone?
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Ina Fried writes on CNET, suggesting that Microsoft just might come up with an iPhone version of TellMe in recent future. Talking about TellMe, it is a subsidiary of Microsoft (got bought out last year) that allows users to call up a number and speak a word or phrase. That word or phrase is, in turn, used to a search query and the results get popped up on the user’s mobile phone. Yes, in short, Tellme is a voice search application (or service, if you wish to call it so)
We all know how Microsoft feels about everything that’s Apple and neither does Steve Ballmer do anything to hide the fact. Yet, Microsoft comes up with Windows that can be run on a Mac. Then come Office Suites and also the online version, to enable every user to use their products, irrespective of the platform. So, it comes as no surprise when Ina starts speculating about the possibility of the Redmond giant to come up with TellMe as the first iPhone application.
What also makes sense, of such a possibility, is that if the SDK of iPhone allows TellMe to take advantage of its voice recognition capability and location-based information (thanks to the latest 3G iPhone), the application should be an awesome product that shall also be able to come up with location specific search results, thus increasing the monetizing capability of such rsults.
Microsoft has been trying to make a breakthough into the mobile market for a long time since it realizes that after PCs, it’s the mobile era that reckons the human race. Combine that with 3G, Wi-Fi support and better technologies, people’s zeal for the “always on” tag should surprise none of us. It is this segment that MS needs to capture. So much so, even Google has started to make its presence felt by integrating search with Airtel and also thanks to all the buzz about the next generation mobile OS, Android.
The very fact that it is an application Microsoft makes us a little nervous about the quality and usability of the product. Yet again, one should never judge the book by its cover!
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