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87% of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Each Month

I fear they count "using siri" as using the voice dictation feature (speech to text) that I use in text messages when I just can't/don't feel like typing it out. To me, this should be excluded because it's really one of those "long time coming..." features... My last horrible horrible horrible horrible (horrible) android phone did this and it was nothing special. iPhone does it, calls it Siri, and suddenly it's magic!

Speech to text aside, how many people are actually saying "Siri, where's the closest ___________ ?" or something like that...?
 
How? What for? It has never, ever worked for me. The last time I tried a few days ago, she said, "I'm sorry, but I am not taking new requests right now. Please try again later." And I quote. The time before that, a few weeks ago, she said "I'm sorry, but I can not connect to the network right now, please try again later." And again, I quote. The time before that, she said, "I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by send a text message." Each time, was something I really needed Siri for, like sending a text message while I'm driving. I've tried that at least a dozen times without a single success. I have to say that Siri has been a complete failure at everything but finding sushi restaurants.
 
I use it every day. Mostly for setting timers and reminders. It's just faster than opening the apps.

Convenience will always be key which is why Siri needs to be very fast and always accurate for the adoption to climb.
 
I love using siri but.......

Siri is great and i use it all the time..... but..... this device has been available in australia for a long time now, and yet we still have very very basic siri usage. We can't use anything to do with maps, or businesses, or pretty much anything apart from commands that don't need access to the net.

This is BS apple.

I paid the same amount for this device if not more than someone from the USA, but i am getting less than half the features. If your selling the iPhone 4s based on Siri, Get the frick onto completing the job as its been way to long for users to be waiting for the full set of features.

Jobs wouldn't have made us wait this long.... (yeh i went there, lol)
 
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Siri is in such a strange place for an Apple product. They market Siri like crazy and feature it in all their commercials. But if something goes wrong, well, it's in beta.

I really hope iOS 6 takes Siri to the next level:
-better server connectivity
-integration with Maps (turn-by-turn, advanced trip queries and planning)
-ability to launch apps
-third-party plugins (e.g. "Play Spotify")
 
I am the 13%.

I can see its potential usefulness, but it is far too buggy (at least it has been for me the few times I've used it) to be something I rely on.
 
Damn it feels good to be in the 13%....

Siri is awesome and a nice feature, just not one I use often. I have used Siri only a handful of times since receiving the 4s on launch day.
 
hspace said:
For my wife, SIRI was a step backwards.

On her 3GS, she could use the 'Call [XXX]' feature even with little or no data connection.

Now with her 4S, since SIRI even forces those simple commands to be interpreted on the SIRI servers, she cannot voice command a call to be made while driving on country roads with little connectivity.

This is VERY frustrating for her. Why oh WHY cannot SIRI let those simple voice commands be handled on the phone? There is plenty of CPU and memory power to do it.
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Then why doesn't she just turn off Siri and use the classic Voice Control?

Settings > General > Siri > switch it off

I do agree though that the actual work should take place on the iPhone and usage data and updates to be synched in iTunes for example.
(Because Siri is learning from you and everyone else, it's constantly updating if you will. At least in theory.)

Glassed Silver:mac
 
hspace said:
For my wife, SIRI was a step backwards.

On her 3GS, she could use the 'Call [XXX]' feature even with little or no data connection.

Now with her 4S, since SIRI even forces those simple commands to be interpreted on the SIRI servers, she cannot voice command a call to be made while driving on country roads with little connectivity.

This is VERY frustrating for her. Why oh WHY cannot SIRI let those simple voice commands be handled on the phone? There is plenty of CPU and memory power to do it.
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Completely agree. I sent a feature request to Apple to find a way to automatically switch back to on phone speech recognition in low or no data connection. I don't believe it should be difficult. I would also like to be able to easily switch between languages. I'm bilingual French-English. I'd like to use the speech recognition in both languages without having to switch the language settings every time. "Switch to French" could be an easy to implement command or something like it...

I'm looking forward to it stepping out of beta, until then, it has been a bit of a disappointment...

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Glassed Silver said:
Then why doesn't she just turn off Siri and use the classic Voice Control?

Settings > General > Siri > switch it off

I do agree though that the actual work should take place on the iPhone and usage data and updates to be synched in iTunes for example.
(Because Siri is learning from you and everyone else, it's constantly updating if you will. At least in theory.)

Glassed Silver:mac
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This is indeed possible, although then you have to switch back on everytime you wish to make use of the siri feature (when you have sufficient data connection). It may be more user friendly, to actually have an easier way or automatic way of switching between the two.

EDIT: Oh and if I recall correctly, switching it off, results in it losing all of the things it "learned" about you (name, family details etc.). So this is not really a solution if you want to switch back and forth.
 
This is a knock on Siri more than anything. At least once a month? what a joke statistic.
 
I only use Siri in the car to send text messages and look up addresses. Probably once or twice a week. Most of the time it works really good, although it has been frustrating at times. If I were to put a grade on how it works, overall I'd give Siri a B- or C+

I'm happy with it and it's only going to get better as time moves on.
 
Is this supposed to be a complement? They pushed SIRI very hard and saying most people use it at least one time in one day out of 30 doesn't seem impressive.
 
hspace said:
For my wife, SIRI was a step backwards.

On her 3GS, she could use the 'Call [XXX]' feature even with little or no data connection.

Now with her 4S, since SIRI even forces those simple commands to be interpreted on the SIRI servers, she cannot voice command a call to be made while driving on country roads with little connectivity.

This is VERY frustrating for her. Why oh WHY cannot SIRI let those simple voice commands be handled on the phone? There is plenty of CPU and memory power to do it.
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Agreed.
Putting everything online is absurd, but it is crucial for Apple to gather lots of speech data to improve their services.
 
I use Siri often daily for calendar appts; occasionally for google searches, occasionally for information.

I need to learn the right commands for using it to call people. I haven't done that much.

Probably a 60-40% split between work and house needs.

And I'm in Canada so I don't even know how much more I'd use it for googlemaps.
 
Not sure if this has been posted, but the survey only sampled 482 iPhone 4S owners out of the millions that have the device. I'm not bashing the survey or Siri, but with a group the size of the iPhone 4S user base, I would expect the survey sample to cover at least a thousand, if not more.
 
Siri and the parking garage

I use Siri every morning when I get to our multilevel parking garage. I set a reminder for 5:30pm that I'm parked on floor x so when I'm coming out of my work haze I'm not wasting time trying to remember where I parked.

Yes, it would be easier to park on the same floor but many times one doesn't have that luxury.
 
drwatz0n said:
Not sure if this has been posted, but the survey only sampled 482 iPhone 4S owners out of the millions that have the device. I'm not bashing the survey or Siri, but with a group the size of the iPhone 4S user base, I would expect the survey sample to cover at least a thousand, if not more.
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^ This.

Sample size too small.
 
Nrwrit3r said:
An important question to ask here is the % of these people who had purchased the iPhone within a month. The reason I say this is because everyone tries Siri when they first buy the iPhone, but by a couple of months into owning it, they may cease to utilize the feature.
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no kidding
only time I use Siri is to set a timer, that's it
not used for anything else at all
 
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