{"id":32037,"date":"2021-03-31T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32037"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:51:47","slug":"goodbye-cortana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/goodbye-cortana\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Cortana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/03\/31\/microsoft-shuts-down-cortana-app-ios-android\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/03\/31\/microsoft-shuts-down-cortana-app-ios-android\/\">\n<p>Microsoft today discontinued its Cortana mobile app. As a result, the company has ended all support for third-party Cortana skills and eliminated the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The eponymous mobile app was originally launched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/11\/14\/microsoft-cortana-ios-redesign\/\">November 2018<\/a>, but apparently never gained a user base big enough in its short lifetime for Microsoft to consider it worth maintaining.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/27\/annual-digital-assistant-iq-test\/\">Annual Digital Assistant IQ Test<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"goodbye-cortana-update-2021-03-31\">Update (2021-03-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1377283924494315521\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1377283924494315521\"><p>Not that I would have even used it, but Cortana as an app could never compete with the built in virtual assistant. It&rsquo;s a shame regulatory action hasn&rsquo;t ever been taken to force Apple to allow us to set a default assistant.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Microsoft today discontinued its Cortana mobile app. As a result, the company has ended all support for third-party Cortana skills and eliminated the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices. [&#8230;] The eponymous mobile app was originally launched in November 2018, but apparently never gained a user base big enough in its short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-31T14:08:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"938dbdbb-f883-4c0d-92ee-49f9f3bcea75","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-31T16:51:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ak429u_iDTA2S7kn587zqdQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,1710,31,1837,26,37,1451],"class_list":["post-32037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-cortana","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-microsoft","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32045,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32037\/revisions\/32045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}