You can probably point to a lot of quality failings at Apple as starting with Steve Job's death. Apparently he failed to teach and instill a culture of high quality and instead just focused on micro-managing everything himself. Steve Jobs may go down as both the best and worst CEO Apple ever had.
The title of the article is "So this is why Siri is way behind the Google Assistant and Alexa". The submission title should be changed.
To say what cheald said in a more concrete way: "now we know why Siri was so dumb for so long" is definitely the title that I am currently seeing. The entire concept that there is a single title that somehow should match across sites is a weird concept made up by Hacker News that doesn't exist in the real world and probably causes more harm than it does good.
>>"It was slow, when it worked at all," Williamson said. "The software was riddled with serious bugs. Those problems lie entirely with the original Siri team, certainly not me." As Steve Jobs said, once you become a VP you can’t make excuses anymore. You have crossed the Rubicon and need to start taking responsibility for the failures of your team. This guy has a lot to learn about leadership.
I know, right? I read this and instantly thought "man, I never want to work for this guy"!
You can probably point to a lot of quality failings at Apple as starting with Steve Job's death. Apparently he failed to teach and instill a culture of high quality and instead just focused on micro-managing everything himself. Steve Jobs may go down as both the best and worst CEO Apple ever had.
Not true at all. Look up the story of Apple University. Jobs can't run Apple from his grave. He tried his best to leave Apple with the right culture and leadership in his view. And for the most part, Apple has done really well since he passed. No one is going to get 100% of things right 100% of the time, and Jobs is no different; things would have inevitably gone wrong under his leadership, too.
>>"It was slow, when it worked at all," Williamson said. "The software was riddled with serious bugs. Those problems lie entirely with the original Siri team, certainly not me." As Steve Jobs said, once you become a VP you can’t make excuses anymore. You have crossed the Rubicon and need to start taking responsibility for the failures of your team. This guy has a lot to learn about leadership.
I know, right? I read this and instantly thought "man, I never want to work for this guy"!
The upside is that without answering the question, he answered the question.
You can probably point to a lot of quality failings at Apple as starting with Steve Job's death. Apparently he failed to teach and instill a culture of high quality and instead just focused on micro-managing everything himself. Steve Jobs may go down as both the best and worst CEO Apple ever had.
I dunno, Apple’s has some pretty terrible CEOs. Jobs might have been a dreadful micromanager and possibly a bit of an arse, but he did disrupt at least four major industries and lay the foundation for the most valuable public company ever.
Whereas Sculley, Spindler and Amelio were a parade of failure from start to finish.
You can probably point to a lot of quality failings at Apple as starting with Steve Job's death. Apparently he failed to teach and instill a culture of high quality and instead just focused on micro-managing everything himself. Steve Jobs may go down as both the best and worst CEO Apple ever had.
I think what really hurts Apple is the lack of the “reality distortion field” at keynotes and media events.
Those set the tone for products and the company with users and Apple hasn’t been nearly as effective at this without him.
Mashable A/B tests their headlines. The original headline is one of the candidates.
I opened up Firefox and loaded the link and I actually saw the other headline for an instant. Edit: Actually it happens on every refresh in Chrome as well.
Good A/B'ing sets a cookie in your browser so that you don't screw up the numbers by reloading.