It’s also part of ruining the “it just works” experience.
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Apple Brings in New Exec to 'Fix' Siri and Apple Intelligence
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but what has Giannandrea done in the last 6+ years? Siri has not gotten one whit better for the tens of millions they've given him to fart around Apple Park.
This is beyond embarrassing. It’s better to euthanize Siri and create a next generation of AI assistants.
And it comes at the cost of development of another product. It always seems that Apple can only handle one development at a time. A bit strange for a multibillion dollar company to have a scarcity of software engineers.
This also means it will take another few years to finally see a working Siri. Siri is a key element in all future products and it’s beyond weird they worked on it for 14+ years and it’s still braindead.
Every other competing company has a good working assistant in place. What a disaster and total embarrassment.
I find that new management often brings little change. What Apple needs is someone with vision.
At any point Apple could have made a working Siri a priority. They deliberately chose not to and are only now doing it because of FOMO.
Sometimes I wonder Apple has only 10 software engineers or so. I mean the just introduced galaxy S25 comes with a perfect assistant in all available languages and also comes with the same WORKING ai things Apple is promising for next year. Apple is two years behind and I’m doubtful they’re able to catch up.
Well you know the saying about arranging deckchairs on the Titanic…
Maybe time to abandon ship and get aboard a new one.
Maybe time to abandon ship and get aboard a new one.
It will be interesting to see if Siri improves overtime. Unlike many others, I don't mind Siri given my limited basic use.
Its completely unfixable at this point. It will never get better.
Add a better mic across all devices for better siri recognition.
Move siri button from the side of the apple tv remote.
LET US CHOOSE DIFFERENT SIRI WAKE WORDS SO HOMEPOD DOESNT ACTIVATE WHEN CLEARLY USING SIRI ON PHONE RIGHT NEXT TO FACE
Add a better mic across all devices for better siri recognition.
Move siri button from the side of the apple tv remote.
LET US CHOOSE DIFFERENT SIRI WAKE WORDS SO HOMEPOD DOESNT ACTIVATE WHEN CLEARLY USING SIRI ON PHONE RIGHT NEXT TO FACE
The anti-Siri. Just like Alucard is the anti-Dracula in the Castlevania game series.🤓Apple could rename it Iris
The complaints around Siri have been there for years. Siri is 14 years now and can’t live up to the Apple commercials from 14 years ago. It’s a total embarrassment not only for the head of software engineering but especially for the ceo. It shows the ceo has no clue about what’s relevant for future products.
HomePod, iPhone, command center, HomeKit, maps… all the key elements are useless without a good assistant.
Total embarrassment and disastrous for future developments.
Apple, you totally Apple Maps’d AI guys.
It's been one if not the worst of the bunch for a very long time, and they could have released a rethought 2.0 version anytime in the past decade as Apple is clearly aware of it's current state, but they continue to choose it was good enough, so it's odd that suddenly they would find it important to start "fixing" Siri and clearly it's not a matter of a new exec, but presumably the division just needs the budget and time and permission to completely rethink it, and now will have the big benefit of being able to leverage large language models. But other LLM's are still falling behind OpenAI so not sure how Apple just starting now will be able to get better than OpenAI, so this is probably just more of an attempt to try to catch up a little bit or risk being light years behind all competitors.
IMO the continual degradation of Siri and the embaressing launch of Apple Intelligence is the single biggest issue and threat to Apple's long-term success.
Siri has gotten progressively worse over the years, to the point where I can hardly use it anymore. It's clear that AI will drive most of our interactions with technology moving forward. From simple things like just telling me the answer to a question instead of reading through a bunch of google results to being able to accomplish simple tasks such as creatign appointments, sending invites. But all of that depends on having something that WORKS and is SUPER FAST.
This shiould be an all-hands-on-deck moment. Glad they seem to be starting to make changes to treat it that way. They need to have a "It just works" approach here, similar to the MobileMe crisis and their approach to wireless headphone pairing and performance.
Siri has gotten progressively worse over the years, to the point where I can hardly use it anymore. It's clear that AI will drive most of our interactions with technology moving forward. From simple things like just telling me the answer to a question instead of reading through a bunch of google results to being able to accomplish simple tasks such as creatign appointments, sending invites. But all of that depends on having something that WORKS and is SUPER FAST.
This shiould be an all-hands-on-deck moment. Glad they seem to be starting to make changes to treat it that way. They need to have a "It just works" approach here, similar to the MobileMe crisis and their approach to wireless headphone pairing and performance.
If so, that is CEO incompetence.
Anyone who gets into the AI game after OpenAI/Google/Meta is at a serious disadvantage. These were all trained on a bunch of copyrighted stuff that is now blocked from being used to train AI.
If she's that good, maybe they should consider giving her Craig Federighi's job next.
Fix? Just start again. It’s absolutely awful and embarrassingly light years behind the competition.
Years of neglect on hard- and software is beginning to show. The focus was and is: PROFITS
I won’t think Apple is able to fix this because all the things Apple wants and promises for this and next year the competition has the same and good working already.
Apple will never be able to catch up
The Board is not comprised of the sharpest knives in the drawer to have let this fiasco fester for years.