Geezzz! Like they been working a year to put few lines in her/his mouth!! Why are people so negative!!!
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Apple Updates Siri to Give Humorous Responses to 'Okay Glass' Prompt
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Geezzz! Like they been working a year to put few lines in her/his mouth!! Why are people so negative!!!
It's not that much effort, it's only two words which translate into the responses. But still, yeah bit of a waste.
Exactly. That Microsoft advert made fun of fanboys, that is exactly the group of people who deserve being made fun of, and who should be able to take it. Samsung's adverts on the other hand was insulting ordinary customers for daring to buy a product that is not Samsung's. That's bullying and deeply unfunny to any decent person.
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Probably someone wasted their lunch break doing this. What a bunch of humorless people on this board.
That's what I mean with "humorless people". "Passive-aggressive" my ass. Do you even know what that means?
And do you seriously think that a single line of code was written for this? Since the people writing the Siri code are not totally insane, they will have a database for pre-written answers to certain phrases; adding phrases is done by a trained typist at 80 wpm, so all this didn't take five minutes of valuable time.
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What about the iPod Hi-Fi? It was so bad that even people that put together these failure lists forget about it.
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This. Plus, I can't imagine it takes more than a few minutes to add these responses.
Time better spent...
Maybe they should have spent the time improving the product...right now, Siri seems fairly useless, except to begin a web search.
Siri can't recognize clearly spoken words (no accent here). Also, it has no context. Each command is an island unto itself. You can't ask for a large result set and then subsequently ask for a subset of that result, which seems a core feature of a vocal search assistant.
Maybe they should have spent the time improving the product...right now, Siri seems fairly useless, except to begin a web search.
Siri can't recognize clearly spoken words (no accent here). Also, it has no context. Each command is an island unto itself. You can't ask for a large result set and then subsequently ask for a subset of that result, which seems a core feature of a vocal search assistant.
Yea, I imagine Apple must have spent THOUSANDS of hours adding less than 10 new lines to Siri's response library.
Any time wasted on it is a waste of time even if it was 10 minutes which I'm sure it was more than that. It serves no purpose, its cheesy and if anything it ended up being free advertising for google and people pick on skeumorphism at least skeumorphims serves a purpose at times.
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Maybe because apple is behind the 8 ball on so many other Google/Android functions. Maybe they should focus on making there product functionally better than waste time being cheeky.
Maybe, but it is nice to see they have a sense of humor. Just like asking Siri about other smart phones.
It's not that I think anyone at Apple is really investing significant time and resources into this, but it's the general superiority complex that kills me. I'm a longtime Apple nut who had the original iPhone, iPhone3G, and iPhone 4 which I'm still using. 90% I'll be getting a 5S.
But I love what Google is doing with Google Now, and I love how they're integrating it into the system with the Moto X.
I just wish Apple would look at things like that and realize how many of their own customers would love to see some innovation along the same lines. Honestly, if the Moto X had a camera to match what I suspect the 5S will pack, I'm not sure I wouldn't jump ship and try Android for the 1st time ever...
But I love what Google is doing with Google Now, and I love how they're integrating it into the system with the Moto X.
I just wish Apple would look at things like that and realize how many of their own customers would love to see some innovation along the same lines. Honestly, if the Moto X had a camera to match what I suspect the 5S will pack, I'm not sure I wouldn't jump ship and try Android for the 1st time ever...
It was a bit expensive, and not really the product that you would expect to sell in huge numbers, but from what I heard people who bought it were actually quite happy with it. I can't quite remember if there were many similar devices around at that time. If not then Apple may have started a little industry that is still beneficial to the company and dropped out as soon as the product wasn't needed anymore.
If you're thinking of leaving Apple for that I give it 6 months before you want to come back because of Android's many, many shortcomings.
maybe so. i've always suspected that android would drive me nuts, but who knows. and didn't mean to make it sound like some big dramatic breakup, more like just an interest in trying something new. like i said, i'd love to see apple take some of these great ideas (like in the Moto X) and make them their own.
last year I tried WP8 and the Nokia 920. Loved the bigger screen and great camera, loved how social media was baked into the OS, loved the tiles, loved a lot about it. In the end, the overall package still fell short and went back to my iPhone.
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Ad:"The all-new iPhone 5S. Designed by Apple in California. Now featuring Siri with 'Real People Personalities'."
So it's all a matter of just writing witty prompts? Siri does not have to understand, decipher and analyze that the user is actually asking about Google Glass?
Alright.