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Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

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Post by xionon » Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

projectramo wrote: post #239

matwood wrote: post #150

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> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? Siri plus shortcuts have made many mundane tasks easier. When I get in my car to come home from work I say "Hey Siri, heading home." That causes my phone to text my wife my arrival time and starts the last podcast I had playing. It's a simple thing, but is so much easier than texting and then thumbing through the podcast player to start where I left off. I ha…

> Siri plus shortcuts have made many mundane tasks easier. When I get in my car to come home from work I say "Hey Siri, heading home." That causes my phone to text my wife my arrival time and starts the last podcast I had playing. Wait, you do what? How can I get SIRI to do this for me? Can you explain how you got SIRI to do that?

Along with iOS 12, Apple released a new app called Shortcuts. It is not preinstalled as far as I know. I think they got it via acquisition. There’s a bunch of new hooks that app makers can/must use to integrate with it, so not everything is supported.

It’s basically IFTTT for iOS, and you can assign phrases in Siri to it.

https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

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Post by rglover » Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 8:51 PM UTC

komaromy wrote: post #183

rglover wrote: post #141

For all the folks lamenting Siri: that was likely just the prototype. I'd bet good money that Apple is working on something far better than a personal assistant for the home—that's just how they got their feet wet while staying competitive. Siri is going to be a robot in your home one day—not just a bubble on the credenza. In order for that to happen, their best talent needs to be focused on that.

This is giving them a lot of benefit of the doubt. Do you have any evidence?

Their track record and the caliber of folks floating around Apple.

Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

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Post by starshadowx2 » Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 11:50 PM UTC

commonsense1234 wrote: post #34

starshadowx2 wrote: post #29

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9 women can't make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months. More people can work on more/different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)

9 women cannot make 9 babies in 1 month nor 1 women can make 1 baby in 1 month. no concurrency in baby making for sure.

Let's say you have a project with 9 parts. Each part will take ~9 months to complete.

If you take 9 people and give them each one part it will take ~9 months to complete.

If you take one person it will take ~81 months as they need to finish each part before they can go onto the next one.

Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

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Post by Fnoord » Wed, Jan 02, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

skizm wrote: post #122

Lots of comments about improving Siri here. This is interesting to me for several reasons I won't address, but I will ask this: Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? From a purely functional standpoint, they seem super awkward to me. I like buttons that click and reassure me of every input. I like to feel confident my actions won't be misinterpreted. I like that no one else near me will get weirded…

> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

A friend of my partner uses voice commands for everything on her iPhone. She is almost blind on one eye, and has terrible eye sight with the other eye (albino trait).