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Comparing Google Assistant on Pixel to Apple Siri on iPhone 7

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YouTube star Marques Brownlee did a Google Assistant versus Apple Siri contest in one of his latest videos. He has the new Google Pixel phone and the new iPhone 7; the Pixel was running Android 7.1, and the iPhone 7 was running 10.0.3.

He compared basic questions, like “What is the weather?,” to more complex questions using conversational search. To my surprise, Apple Siri wasn’t all that bad in some of the conversational questions — but Google was indeed better.

Marques called it the “battle of the smartphone voice assistants,” and it was done pretty well. Here is that video:

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