Yeah works great for you, not so much for me...So??
What's wrong with people who stated Siri doesn't always work the way they wanted to? Why the down votes?
People is not supposed to say Siri does not always work well? So all of us should lie and say Siri is 10000% perfect all the time?
Some people ...
It's because the people who vote those posts down are as bad, if not worse, than the fandroid fanatics. Apple could sell them a terd and they'd defend it's high quality.
Siri is an awesome feature, and it's got great potential. Some people have no issues with it... but LOTS of people do.
Everyone cried it wouldn't work on the iPhone 4... answer turned out to be better microphone on 4S... and there are still issues that might be more hardware related and not just software potentially.
I really think Siri will eventually be a top notch feature, but for now... its still a beta product that still needs lots of love.
Siri needs an AI. I think people think of Siri as being an AI and it's really not. She's basically an internet voice search that connects to a search engine and spits back things at you, and not with great accuracy at time. I'm not talking sky net, but she needs to be better able to understand the context of what people say, and not just the literal words that people say.
Like in the Zooey ad, she asks siri to find her tomato soup to be delivered. She does, but she just searched a food ratings site for tomato soup+delivery. Was it faster than open one of hundreds of apps that can do that same thing you type into? Sure, and that's where Siri is a win. Samuel asks to find organic mushrooms... siri spits out the location of an organic grocery store. Lots of stores have prices online... what would be cool with an Ai is for Siri to say, "whole foods has them on sale this week, but another lcoation offers organic mushroom that is five minutes closer." That's the more human spin.
Or if you ask for a car rental, siri would just tell you a list of car rental places near by. Yet siri could with a minor AI come back with not just a location, but a sale, special, coupon code, pricing, or ask you questions about what you want to rent to make it even better. And I think all those things will arrive someday in Siri and make it better.
What Siri does now is great. I liked it tons before Apple bought it and found it very useful. (Actually, it seemed to have much better recognition before in my opinion. The new Siri understands me only half the time, and the old one about 90% and gave often better results. It would even schedule a cab without me interacting with a cab company.)
So why do people get ticked off when someone says something bad about Siri? If someone is solely complaining on it's functions, okay, they're dumb. It does great things. It's just that for a lot of people, Siri doesn't understand english.