Bad times for Cortana: Microsoft confirms that it will remove it from iOS
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In a scenario in which there is increasingly fierce competition between the different virtual assistants on the market, that is, Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa above all, it seems that those who have not done so their homework on time it's going to be more than difficult to get their piece of cake And that's what happens to Microsoft with Cortana.
The American company has been hesitating for months with its assistant and apparently the decision has been made. This is what can be deduced from the Microsoft statement through one of its support pages in which it states that it would have thought to remove the Cortana application from the Google Play Store and the App Store , as well as its integration into the Microsoft Launcher application for Android.
Bye Cortana, bye
Microsoft has not known or has not been able to develop Cortana in such a way that it has permeated among users and this despite having a gigantic park of computers in which Cortana was already installed as standard. The integration of Alexa in Windows 10 was already a bad omen and it seems that the future looks more than black
Indeed, Cortana is an assistant that is rarely used by users. We have seen how Cortana was separated from the search bar, how you could choose the assistant to use, how Microsoft thought of professional environments to focus on the use of Cortana and now this.
According to the article cited above, Starting January 31, 2020, Cortana will disappear from mobile devices running iOS and Android, which amounts to a total disappearance in reality.Coinciding with that date, Microsoft will update its Microsoft Launcher app around to remove Cortana integration. The only hope, as stated in MSPU, is that the elimination does not affect all markets. In fact, for now they have only found references on the Microsoft Australia, Canada and United Kingdom websites.
This is the Microsoft Communication in which they report the movement they are going to make:
Microsoft wants to restrict the use of Cortana to Microsoft 365 productivity apps and remove her presence. A movement that can be risky if it doesn't go well and that could mean the final end of Cortana.
