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Thodla also described Bixby's ability to anticipate a user's needs by swiping from the right to show
a personal page of various cards that revealed information a user accessed from apps like Facebook
and Uber.
Bixby would then be able to organize the cards depending on the time of day. If a user commonly
uses Uber for a ride to work in the morning, the Uber card would show up at the top of a group of
cards every morning, along with morning news and weather. Or, Thodla said, Bixby could provide
a reminder to read an article later when the user arrived home.
Bixby will also connect to smart devices in a home, using a new Samsung Connect Home service.
"It turns the phone into the universal remote for your life," he said.
Analysts who have seen Bixby in action said they are eager to try it to see how it compares with
voice-activated agents like Siri. Since Bixby is late to the game, it is "the vision that Samsung still
has to deliver on," Goertz said. "Today, it is not in direct competition to Alexa from Amazon,
Google Assistant and others."
Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said Bixby will be measured by how
well users can command and control Samsung devices and features. "Bixby should not yet be
compared to Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa or [Microsoft's] Cortana because it's not yet designed to
be a free-form intelligent agent."
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