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87% of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Each Month
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Mmmmm... bit sceptical of these figures to be honest. Out of the 30 or so people I know with iPhones I dont know any of them that use it and have subsequently turned it off. However I will say this. Those 30+ people have at least used it once to show their friends how funny it is to talk to Siri - then once the novelty has worn off and finding that Siri is of no use outside the US they turn it off again.
I would imagine this is what the figures show - that people are amusing them themslves once having purchased a new iPhone and then realising that it aint entirely useful. A mere novelty.
The email dictation feature on the new iPad is a different story. Its very useful.
I would imagine this is what the figures show - that people are amusing them themslves once having purchased a new iPhone and then realising that it aint entirely useful. A mere novelty.
The email dictation feature on the new iPad is a different story. Its very useful.
Personally I love Siri. I use it all the time for simple things like "set a countdown timer for 30 mins", "remind me to watch BBC2 at 9pm" and "phone X" when I don't want to fish my phone out of my pocket. I've had a 4S since Jan and I use it at least once a day.
It's really useful for the little things and speeds things up. I'd like it if the range of commands was increased, but it's a great start.
Digital concierge service. That's where I want this to go.
It's really useful for the little things and speeds things up. I'd like it if the range of commands was increased, but it's a great start.
Digital concierge service. That's where I want this to go.
because one cannot set an alarm/timer or check the weather on a WiFi only 'new' iPad...
Wirelessly posted
I can only look for businesses, maps and traffic while in the United States, and while using U.S. English. Sorry about that.
I can only look for businesses, maps and traffic while in the United States, and while using U.S. English. Sorry about that.
Wirelessly posted
....If not connected to a wifi network.
Seeing as most if not all people who buy a wifi model do so to use on a wifi network siris exclusion is hard to fathom.
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because one cannot set an alarm/timer or check the weather on a WiFi only 'new' iPad...
....If not connected to a wifi network.
Seeing as most if not all people who buy a wifi model do so to use on a wifi network siris exclusion is hard to fathom.
Exactly.
Pretty s#itty for the 'new' iPad NOT to have such (basic nowadays) functions...
Totally agree. Why omit weather and alarm apps from an iPad, yet include a maps app?
AND Calculator! Why would you even do that?
I almost returned my iPad, annoyed by Apple's shortsightedness.
87% seems awfully high. And that's people who answered "yes I use Siri at least once a month", different from automated statistics which would include accidental use. I have to wonder at how they found those 492 respondents and whether they are a statistically good sample, are they all in the US for a start, I would expect a higher usage of Siri there than worldwide where it's feature compromised and tends to struggle more because of accented english.
There's no details on the survey about what questions they asked, it matters, you ask someone "do you use Siri once a day, once a week, once a month or never" then people who used it 3 months ago are perhaps not likely to say 'never', but actually they use it less than once a month. Similarly, how many of those 87% were between once a month and anything you might call regularly? If 87% of people use it once a month and 7% of people use it once a week or more, that's a less impressive statistic.
My own even more limited sample is that everybody I know who has a 4S (probably 10 people) turned Siri off within 2 days of purchasing their phone and haven't turned it back on, so they, and I, are not using it once a month for sure. I'm with the 'gimmick' crowd on Siri, it's ok, I figured it for such when I bought the phone and got exactly what I expected.
I'd love to see the real statistics but of course that will never happen. Actually I'd love to see statistics for three products, Siri, Facetime and Ping, I doubt any of them are very impressive.
There's no details on the survey about what questions they asked, it matters, you ask someone "do you use Siri once a day, once a week, once a month or never" then people who used it 3 months ago are perhaps not likely to say 'never', but actually they use it less than once a month. Similarly, how many of those 87% were between once a month and anything you might call regularly? If 87% of people use it once a month and 7% of people use it once a week or more, that's a less impressive statistic.
My own even more limited sample is that everybody I know who has a 4S (probably 10 people) turned Siri off within 2 days of purchasing their phone and haven't turned it back on, so they, and I, are not using it once a month for sure. I'm with the 'gimmick' crowd on Siri, it's ok, I figured it for such when I bought the phone and got exactly what I expected.
I'd love to see the real statistics but of course that will never happen. Actually I'd love to see statistics for three products, Siri, Facetime and Ping, I doubt any of them are very impressive.
For people in the german speaking part of Switzerland it's not that easy to use. We have to deceide if we use the English version which is not always a good idea because it's not our mother tongue and we may have some accent. On the other hand high German I an option, but most people here don't like to speak high German, especially not with a phone. Therefore we can not use our native language and the results are often not what I expect. Repeating the same question several times in public is not so funny...
Therefore I only use it sporadically but I am still looking forward to have better voice recognition in a few months/years.
Therefore I only use it sporadically but I am still looking forward to have better voice recognition in a few months/years.
Siri is total junk
I bought a 4S for two reasons - Siri and 64Gb of space. Only the latter is of any use whatsoever. I never use Siri because every time I do it gets a third or more of what I say wrong and that requires not just that I have to check anything written with Siri, which defeats the object of being able to use it while driving for example, but I then have to correct it where it misheard, which is often and significant. The upshot is that the whole thing would have been much quicker using manual input. What is the point of a feature that is so unreliable?
Launching it with only three settings for English for the whole world is just a joke. I am British (English) with a perfectly clear northwest English accent. Siri has British English as a single setting - have any of you ever been to Britain and can you seriously consider that people from the various regions, the likes of Billy Connolly (Glasgow), Jimmy Nail (Newcastle), Paul McCartney (Liverpool), Michael Caine (London), Lenny Henry (West Midlands), Noel Gallagher (Manchester), or any others, sound a thing like each other? No - and if British people can have such difficulty understanding the stronger accents from other regions then what hope does an American-designed phone with a single setting have? None, and that's why it's such crap over here.
Until Siri has a feature for the individual user to train it to that user's own accent then it will remain useless on this side of the Atlantic at least.
I cannot imagine that the US, with its own widely varying regional accents can really fare all that much better with just one setting for American English either. I have little knowledge of French, German or Japanese but I'm fairly willing to bet that Swiss French sounds very different to French in France, or Africa, or Canada, and Swiss or Austrian German is different again to German in Germany, and then all of those places are likely to have widely varying regional accents of their own that confuse Siri as much as it seems unable to handle British regional variations.
- and all of that is saying nothing about Siri's complete reliance on an internet connection, which in the more rural areas is merely a wishful thing, nor that in the UK location data is simply not provided, rendering Siri for text messaging or asking about the weather only, the first of which it gets wrong and second lost its novelty about after about the third time of showing someone.
Get your act together Apple, I can completely understand why people are suing over misrepresentation of Siri.
I bought a 4S for two reasons - Siri and 64Gb of space. Only the latter is of any use whatsoever. I never use Siri because every time I do it gets a third or more of what I say wrong and that requires not just that I have to check anything written with Siri, which defeats the object of being able to use it while driving for example, but I then have to correct it where it misheard, which is often and significant. The upshot is that the whole thing would have been much quicker using manual input. What is the point of a feature that is so unreliable?
Launching it with only three settings for English for the whole world is just a joke. I am British (English) with a perfectly clear northwest English accent. Siri has British English as a single setting - have any of you ever been to Britain and can you seriously consider that people from the various regions, the likes of Billy Connolly (Glasgow), Jimmy Nail (Newcastle), Paul McCartney (Liverpool), Michael Caine (London), Lenny Henry (West Midlands), Noel Gallagher (Manchester), or any others, sound a thing like each other? No - and if British people can have such difficulty understanding the stronger accents from other regions then what hope does an American-designed phone with a single setting have? None, and that's why it's such crap over here.
Until Siri has a feature for the individual user to train it to that user's own accent then it will remain useless on this side of the Atlantic at least.
I cannot imagine that the US, with its own widely varying regional accents can really fare all that much better with just one setting for American English either. I have little knowledge of French, German or Japanese but I'm fairly willing to bet that Swiss French sounds very different to French in France, or Africa, or Canada, and Swiss or Austrian German is different again to German in Germany, and then all of those places are likely to have widely varying regional accents of their own that confuse Siri as much as it seems unable to handle British regional variations.
- and all of that is saying nothing about Siri's complete reliance on an internet connection, which in the more rural areas is merely a wishful thing, nor that in the UK location data is simply not provided, rendering Siri for text messaging or asking about the weather only, the first of which it gets wrong and second lost its novelty about after about the third time of showing someone.
Get your act together Apple, I can completely understand why people are suing over misrepresentation of Siri.
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makes sense
About 86% people are becoming socially alienated too, so it matches perfectly. They can pretend to have a conversation with a primitive AI tool on their phone, they never need friends and family anymore. Well done.
About 86% people are becoming socially alienated too, so it matches perfectly. They can pretend to have a conversation with a primitive AI tool on their phone, they never need friends and family anymore. Well done.
I use Siri a lot everyday, but only if nobody can hear me commanding her. That's just embarrassing and slightly 'nobbish'
I only use it for alarms, reminders and calendar events.
Though this isn't everyday and Siri doesn't always get it right!
Can't really use it for much more in the UK.
Though this isn't everyday and Siri doesn't always get it right!
Can't really use it for much more in the UK.
If you never use it but don't want to turn it off, at least turn off Raise to Speak and stop complaining about accidental activations. General>Siri>Raise to Speak. Then only holding down the home button will activate it.
I myself use Siri to play music like crazy. Gone are the days of scrolling through my music collection looking for a particular song while driving
I myself use Siri to play music like crazy. Gone are the days of scrolling through my music collection looking for a particular song while driving
If you didn't know this already - tap the blue underlined words that come up when Siri reads back what you said and type in what you meant. This helps Siri learn your voice better.
Thanks! I'd never heard that. I'm kind of surprised I didn't think to do it.
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Yeah that's exactly it. A great start. I hope Siri continues to improve and expand. Someday I want them to separate her commands from those that need a server connection (like asking for the weather) and those that don't (like setting an alarm). It's so dumb that I can't have Siri play a song or set a timer without an internet connection. It makes her very unreliable.
As far as speech comprehension, I'm sure that will improve with time.