At a technology conference in Seattle, a program manager for Windows Phone, Marcus Ash, said that Microsoft is talking internally about if they should bring the digital assistant to Android and iOS



From Neowin:

The crown jewel of Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is Cortana. The digital assistant is adding new features on a bi-monthly basis and will eventually expand on to other Microsoft products like Windows and potentially Xbox.

At SMX Advanced in Seattle, Microsoft’s Marcus Ash, group program manager for Windows Phone, said that the company is discussing internally if Cortana should make its way to Android or iOS.

The idea behind this thinking is that if someone was using Windows and iOS or Android, and Cortana was on the PC but not on their mobile phones, it would provide an incomplete experience. So, should Microsoft put Cortana on competing platforms to give the end user the best Microsoft experience possible, or should they keep it locked to Windows Phone to entice users to switch mobile platforms?

  Microsoft is considering bringing Cortana to iOS and Android