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How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa

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Re: How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa

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>>"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.

Re: How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa

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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.

Re: How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa

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>>"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.

That was my thought too. Those comments certainly don't make the accusations seem hard to imagine.

Re: How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa

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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.

Mashable A/B tests their headlines. The original headline is one of the candidates.

Oh interesting, I didn't know that. I guess I'll leave my comment for the next person that has the same inclination as myself.
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