That was when they did very, very few things, though. I mean, they had the first commercially successful GUI in a PC, that was the point when they really were the best at everything they did. But after that, they’ve always had one product line that dominates and the rest kind of dangle. Right now, everything but their mini pc line and maybe the watch – although that bar is very low – kind of dangles.
Probably the worse dangle is the grouping of two processors (max & ultra) with the Mac Studio. Still M2 based. They should have sold the models separately because of the delays with ultra production. Yes treating it as bad as Mac Pro. Then we turn to AI, where’s the AI query summaries for an enhanced Safari that would be useful. Macs can work around this, but not iOS/iPadOS. We certainly all have the mixed opinions about AI up to 18.3. We hope after the WWDC sales pitch 18.4 is worth it.
Excellent point. First time I seen that business thought conveyed thinking back, but yes Apple is so fixated on subscriptions recently they literally buried Siri improvements to mere language accuracy tasks instead of improving Siri because of revenue. Makes one question management foresights?
I've had the same command fail or produce different results on different occasions. You really think the command set just remains perfectly static at all times, and isn't influenced at all by context or changes on the back end? OK guy.
Part of that is misconstrued interpretation with external noises. Way too sensitive, also Siri responds to even TV audio at times.
I just assume there is no team working on Siri at all the way she hasn't improved at all since introduction.
Painful is when Siri works best with one of the most unreliable parts of iOS.
No I don’t. I find amusing how lucky I am with Siri, when some people are not. Incidentally most of them are well known complainers on the forum.
I’m not the one making assumptions. Siri is producing consistent results to my queries, most of the times. Is it perfect ? Far from that. But it isn’t the mess described here, in my experience.
In my experience is not like that. It is quite consistent.
Love that for you, but your experience with Siri is definitely not everyone's. It's good for barking at it to start a timer or whatever where the intent is abundantly obvious, but it falls apart quickly past that.
Siri getting worse is just a completely nonsense. I really can’t see how a developer could make it worse. Worst case scenario, it is not improving at the expected pace.
As a developer, I'm well aware of how you can make anything worse because I've unfortunately done it myself. It's very easy to fix a bug or make a seemingly safe change and unwittingly create new bugs in the process — collateral damage, more or less.
Precisely this. To this developer, Siri gives off the feel of a huge pile of spaghetti code that contains all sorts of unwarranted assumptions that individual developers made at various times, assuming "if I find these two words in the sentence, that definitely means the intent of the sentence is X", when that's just one of many things it could mean.
Tell us you don't know anything about developing complicated software systems without telling us that. There's a word for it, it's called a regression. Breaking thing B in the process of fixing thing A, because you made incorrect assumptions about the side effects that the changes for thing A would have on other use cases for the code. This happens all the time.
That's the problem though. Apple has not published documentation of what constitutes "correct phrases", so you're not using objectively correct phrases, you're using your guess at what correct phrasing might be.
And then you asserted that, for the problems I detailed, the fault was mine and not Siri's.
Maybe, but the goal of Siri should be to work for everyone, shouldn’t it?
Also, this paragraph boils down to “You’re talking to it wrong.” There should be no concept of “trying to use correct phrases.”
