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2018 MacBook Pro Models With Touch Bar Support 'Hey Siri'

So your computer can be as dumb as your phone?

So you can crash your toyota entune system from your computer? (Activating Siri does that today from phones)?

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Icaras said:
What are you talking about? As others have already mentioned, Apple has already accounted for this. I forget if it was Eddie or Craig that mentioned it an interview, but only one of your devices will ever respond to Hey Siri because of intelligent awareness. I would make sure all your devices are signed into the same iCloud account.
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Half the time none respond. The other half all go off. In either case it's always a substandard experience because Siri needs a brain
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Frantisekj said:
No Face ID?
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I hope not. Not remotely secure enough to protect a computer (neither is touchID).
 
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Icaras said:
What are you talking about? As others have already mentioned, Apple has already accounted for this.
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If they did it doesn’t work reliable, at least not with two iPhones: Mine (6s and 8+) often respond simultaneously to requests when lying in the same room.

Maybe it works better in combination with Watches/HomePods but as others mentioned, it acts this way among their devices as well.
 
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macduke said:
It's too bad it doesn't have a UHS-II card slot like the iMac Pro. Oh wait, it doesn't have any card slot at all any more. Lame.
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Apple likely knows 1 out of 10 users ever use that slot. No one I know does and I personally used mine twice in 7 years.
[doublepost=1531419235][/doublepost]I’m not sure when they stopped accessibility from doing this. You used to be able control the computer by voice and call it up by saying computer or set you’re own phrase. This has been available since 2001
 
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imola.zhp said:
This will be pointless in a house with a HomePod though, right? My MBP and HomePod sit about 10’ away from each other. I have this problem with my phone and watch too. I usually use the crown on the watch to start conversing with Siri if I don’t want to use HomePod. Or type my command into Siri on my phone.
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Not at all. You might want to display the weather on your Mac, rather than having Siri speak it as it would on the HomePod.

You can also use Siri on macOS for things like showing recent files or photos, like "Show me files from June 2017" or "Show me photos from last week." It can also be used for activating the screensaver, turning up the volume, and other functions on your Mac.
 
genovelle said:
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Apple likely knows 1 out of 10 users ever use that slot. No one I know does and I personally used mine twice in 7 years.
[doublepost=1531419235][/doublepost]I’m not sure when they stopped accessibility from doing this. You used to be able control the computer by voice and call it up by saying computer or set you’re own phrase. This has been available since 2001
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They haven't, I'm sure that option is still available. You can set up your own catchphrase like "Computer" or even "Hey Siri", but it won't be as responsive and fast as you're used to with the Hey Siri feature. That should be different with those new machines.
 
genovelle said:
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Apple likely knows 1 out of 10 users ever use that slot. No one I know does and I personally used mine twice in 7 years.
[doublepost=1531419235][/doublepost]I’m not sure when they stopped accessibility from doing this. You used to be able control the computer by voice and call it up by saying computer or set you’re own phrase. This has been available since 2001
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This is exactly it. They have stats around usage. From what I've heard internally, very very very few people used it. Why make every buyer shoulder the cost when so few use it? I much rather they didn't bother charging the development cost to us and instead make the few that need the port pay a couple bucks for an external one.
 
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
You can also use Siri on macOS for things like showing recent files or photos, like "Show me files from June 2017" or "Show me photos from last week." It can also be used for activating the screensaver, turning up the volume, and other functions on your Mac.
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"Here are seventeen pictures of the moon"

"I can't find anything about gogos leak"

That's siri.
 
sniffies said:
My original MBP+TB feels more and more obsolete every day.
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It's normal with computers, smartphones, tablets, etc., the next year something better comes along and makes your current tech feel old. But if it still meets your needs, that's really what matters.

Apple's decision to neither increase the display resolution nor lower the price of the new 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pros means I'm probably going to stay using my 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina Display for another year.
 
macduke said:
Yeah that's the same machine that I have at work. It's still good. Six cores and more RAM would be useful as Lightroom now takes better advantage of that with big performance updates in the past year, but my next personal machine is definitely going to be a desktop Mac of some sort. I'd imagine a sizable chunk of the MBP user base is photographers so removing that tiny slot seems pretty weird. The industry has pretty much settled around SD cards as the standard and the newest cards are pretty fast and huge. I've got 300MB/s cards for my Sony a7R III and so I use a UHS-II card adapter all the time and it's a pain compared to just popping it into the slot. If I'm not in a hurry I'll still use the slot because it's so dang convenient but UHS-II speed is very nice when it comes to downloading photos (in addition to clearing buffers during burst shooting 42MP RAW at 10fps).

I kind of wonder if Apple was getting concerned about how so many people were starting to buy those little adapters for micro-sd cards that turn them into a removable SSD and that cutting into their bottom line. It also wasn't a great user experience from my time trying it out. With the new SD card spec recently put out going up to 128TB at nearly 1GB/s, why buy a bigger SSD?
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Haha, yeah could be. I mean, you had those small adapters, I forgot their name. Which let you use a micro sd card and still sit flush in the laptop.

I'm getting a A7iii next week so USH-II speed will be nice yes, guess I'll have to get a adapter or stick to a slower speed.
 
gsapienza said:
Uh this is already a thing. Even with a house with an Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and HomePod; only one ever responds. And it is pretty smart about it. If I am just speaking out loud, the HomePod will respond. If I have my wrist raised, the Apple Watch will respond
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That's how it's *supposed* to work, but it never does for me. I raise my wrist, ask my Apple Watch to unlock the garage door, HomePod responds "I can't do that". It's MADDENING.
 
Icaras said:
What are you talking about? As others have already mentioned, Apple has already accounted for this. I forget if it was Eddie or Craig that mentioned it an interview, but only one of your devices will ever respond to Hey Siri because of intelligent awareness. I would make sure all your devices are signed into the same iCloud account.
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If I say "Hey Siri" with both my phones (iPhone X's iOS 12 DB 3) and watch in the same area, all three trigger to answer.
 
Icaras said:
What are you talking about? As others have already mentioned, Apple has already accounted for this. I forget if it was Eddie or Craig that mentioned it an interview, but only one of your devices will ever respond to Hey Siri because of intelligent awareness. I would make sure all your devices are signed into the same iCloud account.
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I said this elsewhere, but yes I agree that's how it's *supposed* to work. In practice it does not. I raise my wrist, ask my Apple Watch to unlock the garage door, HomePod responds "I can't do that". It's MADDENING. Wrong device ALL the time.
 
Relentless Power said:
Perhaps you misread my post. I never indicated any examples using Siri with Mac, I stated I like the *concept* of Siri integrated into the MacBook and it’s a welcomed addition using Hands Free Siri as an option, Especially being I prefer hands-free with my iPhone commands, AirPod Controls, Apple Watch dictation while using Siri.
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falcn said:
Can you give a few real world examples of Siri usage on a Mac?
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I use Siri on my mac to open excel spreadsheets and other docs from time to time, very convenient.
 
Kobayagi said:
Haha, so true. Missing a regular usb port, somehow I'll someday be okay with that. But as someone who takes a lot of photos, I sure will mis the sd card slot. Oh and lets not forget about MagSafe, still can't believe they just ditched that. I'll be using my 'old' maxed out 2015 rMB Pro for as long as I can.
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they have removed all the useful features and introducing useless ones. This upgrade didn't bring practicaly anything except specs bump. I can't believe what they've managed to do to a great laptop. Furthermore the price is unbelievable for laptop with so many limitations and annoyances, especually outside US. difficult to understand that they kept those thick bezels too. They are again at least a year, two behind competition. total rip off as usual. I don't like W10, but will start thinking about something better than crippled MBP with AMD graphics. I can just dream about smaller bezels screen, optional touch bar, better keyboard, one USB-A, SD card reader, Magsafe, Nvidia and iconic glowing logo ;) I would not hesitate a second even for the current price if they introduce something like that. They totally screwed that brautiful machine. So sad..
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
If I say "Hey Siri" with both my phones (iPhone X's iOS 12 DB 3) and watch in the same area, all three trigger to answer.
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That’s too bad. Mine doesn’t, ever. Works as intended....even with all my devices on beta releases. That’s two HomePods, an iPhone X, an Apple Watch series 0, and a 5th generation iPad. All listening. And always just one device will respond back.

As I’ve said before, make sure all your devices are signed on the same iCloud account. Being updated to the latest OSes wouldn’t hurt either.
 
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Icaras said:
That’s too bad. Mine doesn’t, ever. Works as intended....even with all my devices on beta releases. That’s two HomePods, an iPhone X and a 5th generation iPad. All listening. And Only one device ever responds to me.

As I’ve said before, make sure all your devices are signed on the same iCloud account. Being updated to the latest OSes wouldn’t hurt either.
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All Apple products use the same ID with both phones running the same beta. The watch still on the official public release.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
All Apple products use the same ID with both phones running the same beta. The watch still on the official public release.
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Not sure what to tell you then, other than this affects just some users...is Siri check marked in iCloud settings...and again on all your devices?
 
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