I like cash, but I'll be perfectly honest here, I hardly ever carry it any more. I'll be more likely to use my debit card then pay cash, in fact I get a bit perturbed when an establishment doesn't take debit/credit cards and is cash only
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Apple Possibly Looking to Japanese Expertise to Improve Siri
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I hate cash. Your hands get dirty, fills up the pockets and eventually ends up in a pile somewhere in your flat.
Siri needs improving on the Apple Watch. Simple things like "What time does <shop> open in <location>?" should give an answer on the watch. Too many things where a text reply would work are bumped to the phone.
Anybody else but me wonder why the number $99.7 million was used instead of roughly $1 billion dollars?
If that's the case Apple could've / should've purchased "Viv" before Samsung did. I mean Siri's creators own Viv anyways.
While what you are saying is not untrue, the high end DSLRs and lenses are still made here (at least canon and nikon). Some lower end ones are made elsewhere. There has been a big hollowing out of manufacturing supply chains, but even with higher costs, manufacturing is still a big part of the economy.
I would be quite happy being cashless. The main blocking point at the moment, in my opinion, are the payment service providers: If charges were removed for small payments, shops would he able to offer card payments. At the moment the fee is too high for small purchases and shops either refuse to accept below a certain amount or charge a fee to cover costs.
China isn't really a "cheap" place to manufacture electronics anymore. Sure, it's cheaper than producing them in Japan, but the quality devices are built in China; crappy devices get constructed in place like Bangladesh and Thailand. Globalization changes the market.
This really speaks to the ineptness of the current Apple ... after all these years to STILL be looking for someone / something to improve Siri ... SERIOUSLY?
Probably because it's no where near a billion dollars. I think you meant roughly $100 million dollars.
$99.7million <---------------------------------------$900million--->$1billion.
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Actually Google Now and Cortana are both MUCH better than Siri. The fact that you know Siri's limitations shows that you also know that Siri is lagging behind.
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5 years in the tech world is a LONG time.
Infinitely =/= much
And Cortana/Google Now have severe limitations as well. They're not Her.
Maybe so, but in a lot of countries like Japan, Germany, etc people much prefer to pay with cash than credit/debit.
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Valid point.
Fine, no problem, don't use cash then. But don't take away my ability to use it in some cashless utopian society. You too will wish that cash still existed when there are negative interest rates on consumer bank accounts as a desperate measure by central banks to pump the economy. Google "negative interest rates" to see where this is already happening.
Don't mind ATMs. Do mind the massive piles of change I build up.
Moving to using my contactless card for most stuff.
It's not. AI assistants are a very long game. They'll be with us for decades or longer. This is just the very beginning.
I personally don't think Siri is a big selling point for iPhone or iOS anymore. Upon it's initial release it was a big deal, but I think for a majority of people Siri is a novelty feature. Good for the occasional "hey look at this" kind of thing, but outside of that it's not too big of a deal. Perhaps it is just me, but for most of the things Siri can be used for, I find it easier and more accurate to just look myself instead of talking to my phone.
I reiterate that I am still so surprised that with all the money and resources Apple has that Siri has stalled compared to Google Assistant/OK Google, and other personal assistants. They had a head start. And if the creators of Siri could create Viv - Apple could have been there as well.
"Hey Siri, remind me at 3 this afternoon to call Mrs. Jones" works perfectly well for me.
It creates a reminder and when the reminder comes up all I have to do is swipe it and it makes the call.
As for talking out loud: hell no! That would be incredibly annoying if everyone's phones were constantly yelling at them to do things...