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Apple Will Reportedly Let iPhone Users in the EU Switch Away From Siri
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Amazing how this comment got some thumbs down because the competition supports Polish. Absolutely hysterical
Have a feeling to deter people from swapping to another assistant Apple will place a boogeyman warning when attempting to switch
Everything is good within its limitations. Admittedly, I prefer tools with fewer limitations.
Yes, I'm wondering if this might increase sales of iPhones, etc., or at least help maintain their numbers.
Hence the desire by many people to be able to use a voice assistant on their Apple devices that doesn't have these limitations.
I’m genuinely unsure above whether this post is humorous or not. Surely nobody would seriously argue Siri doesn’t suck because it sets timers and it gives directions…
I don't think that would do anything other than to mildly annoy people as they switch assistants.
Can’t wait until the rest of the world clamps down on Apple like the EU has. I buy my device and should be able to install whatever I want on it. Consumer should win - the EU has that correct.
This has never been a must-have feature for me. I don’t care who makes it. It feels like a gimmick that’s cool for five minutes, and then I never use it again. Maybe in 5-7 years, I’ll try it again.
Just drop Siri totally. It’s like walking in quick sand when using Siri.
User choice always!. And more considering Siri is a worse than a politically incorrect joke!
Eh. Google similarly already warns people the first time before allowing apps to be side-loaded in Android, but the important thing is they won't stop you. If you need a further comparison, they also sensibly warn of privacy issues if you set up third party speech recognition or text-to-speech apps. These features should all be available, pending parental control locks, of course.
I pulled my Amazon Echo dots back out of storage after a major knee injury last month. Being able to tell something to turn the lights off from across the room is so handy. I could also unlock my phone and go to the widget to do it, but that's slower. That's just voice control, and hopefully there will be a locally-hosted alternative eventually.
On the other hand, a while back, I really wanted to buy a couple of specific items of a line that looked like it was being closed out, and I wanted to do it locally, but the vendor only had general national chain information. It would have been really nice to type in, 'hey, (Siri or Google or Alexa), who carries this model flashlight locally?' Turned out Google's AI didn't know, either, and I suspect the other search engines with shopping tabs didn't either, but that would be exactly the sort of thing a virtual assistant would be good for. Go find this thing, give me a list, and maybe even let me buy it and go get it. From reading Gurman's article in Bloomberg, Steve Jobs thought similarly, enough to hound the original Siri devs to sell it to Apple in the first place.
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This is an excellent answer to the problem. Select your own voice assistant this is perfect. I’m not a fan at all Siri
Well, Apple needs to inform customers of the privacy risks. If you let Google have an open mic on your iPhone that you have next to you 24/7, there’s some severe privacy implications. Some people might accept those risks, but Apple has the duty to inform its customers.
EU customers are getting all the good features
Regulation works
Regulation works
It fails to do those things all the time for me and many other people have reported the same issue
You’re an outlier. If there’s a chance of an error, that means there’s a chance you’ll never run into an error. That’s why listening to other people and empathizing with their experiences makes you more in touch with reality
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Siri works fine enough for the very infrequent and limited tasks I use it for. Honestly I can’t imagine why people would switch to Google. You basically have an always listening mic on you which feeds the spyware company.
How about giving users outside the EU that option. Satisfied and Siri are two words that start with the letter ‘S’ that you shouldn’t find in the same sentence.
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Ok, now I'm really jealous of iPhone users in the EU. Siri is ancient trash faux AI. At this point, the name is so tainted, Apple should name the new one something else if it's actually good, and allow us to call it whatever we want.
It’s not about whether Siri is good or not. It’s about the principle of being able to choose your own AI assistant (I would choose a private one that runs on my own home systems) and STILL be able to enjoy the full Apple ecosystem.
THIS IS GREAT and I wish they’d make this global and without needing the EU to force them.
THIS IS GREAT and I wish they’d make this global and without needing the EU to force them.