I have a HomePod. The phone is already listening to us so they’re basically the same thing, IMO.
I certainly hope a human at 10 years old is smarter than an AI computer. If not there's something wrong with the parent.If I say to Siri
“Hey Siri, turn on the light” she turns on both the actual light that I named “Light” and the light strip named “LED Strip”
Your argument would be valid if the LED strip was named “LED Light Strip” or something, but it isn’t. It’s a dumb led strip connected to a Meross smart plug. The “Light” is an actual Nanoleaf smart bulb.
A 10 year old knows better, Siri doesn’t. Either my 8 year old cousin is much smarter than most 10 year olds or Siri is dumb as ****.
Excuse me???? Did you forget that you replied ME with a response to my earlier post towards a different member? I'm just responding to what you said to me. I'm not complaining about complainers, I'm responding to what you said to me. The irony in your post. 🙄it's called armchair CEOing and that's what we do here at MacRumor's
we are allowed commenting on it, since ya know, ti's a comment thread about the topic... Seems weird to come in acomplain about people doin that
People were able to accurately predict this one years ago. Considering how many times apple was predictedt o have a "failure" of a product, only to not, the odd time we get it right, we're allowed commenting
Excuse me???? Did you forget that you replied ME with a response to my earlier post towards a different member? I'm just responding to what you said to me. I'm not complaining about complainers, I'm responding to what you said to me. The irony in your post. 🙄
I don't know about that. I have far more Sonos speakers and they coordinate perfectly as well.I own 6 HomePods and I know why.
When it comes to speakers, I'm primarily concerned with perfectly coordinated sound. And only Apple's speakers have the processing power to achieve that. It's that simple.
Siri is just the worst. It often gives visual responses to auditory questions. And it can't really answer any questions. It's so fair behind Google and Alexa it's mind blowing. I love Apple but just really wish they would do something to fix Siri.Honestly don't get it now, as HP Mini is cheap.
Yes, Siri's still missing logical operators - AND, IF, OR. That's my biggest complain, but what else???!
In 95% of cases I use Siri just to turn on/off lights, add reminders/timers a of course play music.
What? The reason you buy a smart speaker is due to how “smart” it is. Dumb Siri defeats the purpose of owning a smart speaker at allHmm interesting how there a few of the same style of writing posted trashing Siri when the article has nothing to do with Siri, but rather it's about the HomePod which can easily be used without Siri. I'm thinking there are outside sources lurking?
What you're stating has nothing to do with the article. It's only about the HomePod not penetrating the market. If this was just about Siri it would've been mentioned in the article.What? The reason you buy a smart speaker is due to how “smart” it is. Dumb Siri defeats the purpose of owning a smart speaker at all
So I have Hue Lights tied to HomeKit and commands work for me. I can say, "turn off living room lights" and off they go. For the whole house, I haven't tried because in my use case I have everything on schedules. Playing music on a timer, haven't tried that either as honestly I would just tell Siri to pause when I was done.Going to bed at night... "Siri, turn off the light." "OK, what room?"
It really doesn't understand or learn that this means "turn off every light". Sure, at some point I will have automated that limitation and remember "Siri, turn off the light in all rooms"... but right now, it's an annoyance.
Siri also doesn't understand instructions like "Siri, play jazz for 15 minutes in the bedroom". The "15 minutes" throws it off.. so it is ignored. Also, that Apple uses airplay is an annoyance compared to Spotify connect (and similar things on other services, as Tidal) as it applies to all sound and will get highjacked if you e.g. open a picture with a sound on twitter when you listen to music.
Finally, the competition would include Sonos which has much better sound quality and flexibility compared to the HomePod.
Apple here is between the low end from competition who really want to get into your house/life and monetise that rather than the devices themselves (Google, Amazon) and devices that are just better (Sonos, Bluesound, Heos)
It is - people just like to use that excuse to pardon apple's poor AI product.I keep thinking about Siri's limitations, and how you can opt out of sending recordings to Apple. But even if no one opted in, couldn't they still program Siri to answer more types of questions anyway?
I have a friend who asks Google random questions like "Who is Joey's mom on Friends?" and it would reply with "According to the website blahblahblah.com..." and read the answer. I'm trying to understand, why does it need recordings of people in order to be able to provide an answer like that? Is it not possible to parse the sentence anyway?
Cool flex!I own 6 HomePods and I know why.
When it comes to speakers, I'm primarily concerned with perfectly coordinated sound. And only Apple's speakers have the processing power to achieve that. It's that simple.
Thank god!That’s because Siri isn’t very smart compared to Google and Alexa.
Probably that due to Siri's stupidity, the HomePod is nothing more than a run of the mill bluetooth speaker with good sound.Hmm interesting how there a few of the same style of writing posted trashing Siri when the article has nothing to do with Siri, but rather it's about the HomePod which can easily be used without Siri. I'm thinking there are outside sources lurking?
You've missed the point entirely. 👎Probably that due to Siri's stupidity, the HomePod is nothing more than a run of the mill bluetooth speaker with good sound.
What you're stating has nothing to do with the article. It's only about the HomePod not penetrating the market. If this was just about Siri it would've been mentioned in the article.
When you have official written proof of that with those exact bashing words I'll be happy to read the official publication that shows that. 😂The headline states Apple is "Largely absent" in the smart speaker market. The reason for that is Siri's stupidity.