The truth stinks don't it? Maybe this will motivate Apple to give Siri a good kick in the ass.
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Microsoft Pits Cortana Against Siri in New Ad Showcasing Contextual Reminders, Traffic Alerts
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The truth stinks don't it? Maybe this will motivate Apple to give Siri a good kick in the ass.
Yes, in an office or any place around lots of people it's silly. But in a car, it's amazingly useful! Do you drive? Also much faster for putting in to-do items. I can say "remind me to stop at John's house at 10:30am on Wednesday" about a hundred times faster than I could enter it with the screen.
Hey Cortana! Is there an app for that? No? Yeah, didn't think so.
/Though I would always love more functionality from Siri.
/Though I would always love more functionality from Siri.
The bigger problem is that it falsely triggers several times a day - usually when I'm driving and listening to a podcast. I guess I should just shut off the feature until it works right and lets you change the wake-up phrase.
It's almost as if they're trying to make their product seem better than the competition.
Why? the only time iPhone is not with you is when it's plugged in or charged. Other than that "hey Siri" is useless if the phone is within your reach (pocket, on table in front of you...or so.
I think putting out these Cortana commercials is a smart move for Microsoft. Anedotecly (i'm not gonna spell check that..hate that word!) I haven't seen my Windows phone owning friends ever using Cortana. I don't think they don't even know they have a voice assistant. If anything, these commercials will make prospects and owners more aware of the fully featured voice assistant that is in a Windows Phone, while taking a jab at Apple.
The big problem isn't the Siri/Cortana voice issue. It's that contextual reminders suck in iOS! I can't put in a reminder on an iPhone to tell me to get milk when I'm near any supermarket. I can't even have it remind me to buy an iPhone case when I'm near any Apple Store! It will only remind you for a specific, physical, single location. Idiotic and 90% useless. I complained to the "Geniuses" about this just weeks after location reminders came out and still no updates. But Cortana can do this so what's Apple's problem?
Honestly, these ads are becoming just as annoying as the Samsung ads. Im sorry, but I'm not going to buy your products if you can't sell them based upon your own merits. I cringe whenever I have to use Windows 8 and I highly doubt their handheld devices are any better.
Pointless comment. So if Apple has so much bigger marketshare, why is Siri so far behind on features? And no, I'm not buying a Windows phone. Just got an iPhone 6+ last week and have all iPhones and Macs at home. Just wish Apple wasn't getting left so far behind on many visible features.
Siri is not as advanced as Cortana in many areas. I don't think this is up for dispute. The question is does the average user care yet? I hope they do. I want these assistants to improve. The faster we improve AI, the sooner we'll be able to get more work done. This is good progress (provided they don't go all Terminator on us )
Microsoft are very good to come up with UI, in this case they followed Apple after bashing Siri back then. Anyway, Microsoft have cool UI but bad user experience. Look at Kinect, it's a good UI but damn hard to interact. You must hold your hand STILL for few seconds in front of the screen to select a menu...Kinect voice control sucks ball too.
Not doubting you but I never use Siri around other people since I'd look like an idiot and be annoying. Only use it alone - mostly when driving.
The funny thing is is Siri is actually much higher quality now, way less robotic. I think when you first activated it sounds that robotic, then it downloads the high-quality voice and it sounds way better.
You're mostly right....except if your stationary, say at home and your busy doing something else and can't / don't want to pick up the phone. Also it's not a good long term habit to simply leave a rechargeable battery plugged in when it's not necessary. Murders the charge cycle count given enough time.
"Microsoft has a long history of targeting Apple in its advertisements"
Yeah, really long. Not quite as long as Apple doing the same.
Yeah, really long. Not quite as long as Apple doing the same.
