Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
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#3Not surprised. No major expansion in functionality for years
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#4Siri is mostly useless. It works about half the time for me. When I ask it to do a task like create a timer, it works, but asking it questions is almost useless. One time I asked "What is a picometer?" and it gave an answer from Wikipedia, but then I immediately asked "What is a femtometer?" and it said it couldn't answer it on the iPhone. My wife gets amused whenever I use Siri because half the time I'll start swearing in frustration at how stupid it is, and yet like Charlie Brown and Lucy, I keep trying to kick that football.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#5Can tell they downgraded the long range microphones somewhere between iPhone 4 and 7, might be even worse in later models because it really struggles to pick up you shouting across the room at it when it used to work pretty well on the 4.
Then again the only thing I've used it for since launch is setting timers, rarely gets that right these days.
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#6At least Siri doesn't pester you to buy various things or to use it for additional purposes like Alexa does as far as I know.
But, yeah, all the voice assistants are pretty bad or at least bad enough that I mostly give up trying to use them for anything other than certain rote tasks. Siri may or may not be marginally worse but none of them are good enough to, say, really use hands-off in a car unless I've carefully pre-defined tasks to perform. (e.g. pick from a handful of memorized playlist names).
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#7I generally like Siri and rarely experience bugs. I use it to set timers, get the weather, play music via Spotify, occasionally dictate text messages, and look up trivia mid-conversation. It's been my replacement for Alexa ever since I got creeped out by Amazon's audio data retention. In this context I'm suprised to hear Apple employees are unhappy with it.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#8Can tell they downgraded the long range microphones somewhere between iPhone 4 and 7, might be even worse in later models because it really struggles to pick up you shouting across the room at it when it used to work pretty well on the 4. Then again the only thing I've used it for since launch is setting timers, rarely gets that right these days.
I don’t think the iPhone 4 had always on siri.
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#9> The report today explains that Google wanted these three engineers “badly enough that its CEO, Sundar Pichai, personally wooed the group.”
How do they conduct the interviews, in that situation?
Not the usual tech megacorp brogrammer "technical interview" hazing?
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#10I love my iPhone, it's a great device.
However, quite literally the only two things I use Siri for are asking "what song is this?" and "set a timer for X minutes."
I'm sure there are ways I could be using it for any number of things that might improve some routine process in my life, but I never found them.