Apple Will Reportedly Let iPhone Users in the EU Switch Away From Siri

[derbyshire2013]

I’ve never understood the criticism of Siri. Sure, it doesn’t have the breadth of knowledge of Google but it never once fails to set a reminder or a timer. Directions in Apple Maps are concise and the on-device help feature genuinely useful.

It’s only been a problem within the last month but if I ask Siri how long it’ll take me to get to work (routes I take are undergoing a lot of road closures at the moment for various reasons) it’ll pull up the card and how many miles but retort it can’t tell me.

Yet if I give the name and address of said location - no problem… and everything is set up correctly 🤷🏽

 

[sidewinder3000]

Good. Let Siri compete in the free market of voice assistants. If it's good enough, people will use it.

Not necessarily. People are notoriously slow to change, and if they’re able to use a voice assistant they’re more familiar with from another platform, they will. After that point, even if Apple turned Siri into the best voice assistant, it will be very hard to get people to try it, because their habits will have been formed.

The best solution would’ve been for them to make Siri amazing 10 years ago. But since that’s not the case, things are about to get very complicated, very soon.

 

[titanium69]

Title should read: ‘Apple upsets fanboys by giving them choice’

To be fair Siri is the only female voice some apple fanboys will ever get a reply from

 

[docschulz]

"Expanding EU Regulations"

Translation: Yet another invented fine for US Companies, with Apple ofc being the primary target.

The EU is a ****ing joke.

Is that you Donald?

 

[SomnambulantSurgeon]

Apple needs a rethink about their place in the world. Their responsibility to the world extends further than shareholder value and making their products carbon-neutral (by some definition of carbon neutral). It's bigger than that.

Tim Cook may have propelled the company to unimagined success and Apple plainly still bears the scars of their near death experience in the 90s.

 

[Avidos1]

Clever move, they will probably made to do it anyway and now they can argue to get siri onto android

 

[amaze1499]

Out of curiosity… Google would have to provide similar solution? Siri on Android would be funny.

 

[Ctrlos]

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’m saying based on my own experience. I’m sure yours and everyone else’s varies wildly 🙂

 

[Ad47uk]

I will be happy if this brings an option of "none of the above". I don't need a voice assistant and I certainly don't want one from Google or Amazon.

But you don't have to use it. I have Google Assistant on my Android phone, but I don't use it, as I said above, I have Alexa as default as it is set up for my smart home stuff, so makes sense, but again, don't really use it, apart from maybe getting it to turn the heating on befor ei leave work.

I have Siri on my Mac, but only used it a couple of times as a muck around, even setting it for keyboard input and still not used it. I can't be bothered, to be honest, I prefer using a search engine (Duck Duck Go) in a browser.

 

[Ad47uk]

Out of curiosity… Google would have to provide similar solution? Siri on Android would be funny.

If Apple wants to put Siri on Android, they can.

 

[Klpp0]

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.

Yeah like they informed everyone that Siri secretly recorded and this was given to an external contractor or like when Siri is overwhelmed again with the question about the current month and forwards it to ChatGpt (which is known for perfect privacy )

Out of curiosity… Google would have to provide similar solution? Siri on Android would be funny.

That would be awesome. Siri on the PlayStore, after 1 year, 500 user installations and a user rating of 1 star

If Apple wants to put Siri on Android, they can.

They never will. Imagine advertising an old car from the 90s in a showroom full of modern cars.

 

[mpuk]

Apple needs a rethink about their place in the world. Their responsibility to the world extends further than shareholder value and making their products carbon-neutral (by some definition of carbon neutral). It's bigger than that.

Tim Cook may have propelled the company to unimagined success and Apple plainly still bears the scars of their near death experience in the 90s.

Insightful. Thank you.

 

[iPadified]

Under what obligation are Apple to allow Amazon Alexa or Google on their iPhone?

None of course, but Siri is not competitive and has never been. EU is actually making Apple a favour (again, remember USB-C) . The consequence of this will be that iPhones have competitive AI/voice assistants fitting the user in terms of language, culture, or other preferences. Hence, the iPhone as a device will be more competitive. What do you think it is most important? iPhone sales or Siri monopoly on iPhone?

 

[ForkHandles]

"Expanding EU Regulations"

Translation: Yet another invented fine for US Companies, with Apple ofc being the primary target.

The EU is a ****ing joke.

You don’t understand monopolies and their power.

Imagine if Apple and Google colluded to put a $10 per month user charge on their operating systems. Would you be powerless to refuse?

No, because monopolies are regulated in every country. The EU and USA would fine them until they bled and give way.

This is Same, Same but Different.

 

[Frantisekj]

Great! Unlike Siri, Google Assistant at least supports the Polish language.

I was wondering that it was not part of regulation already and language support is reason. we ca not expect Apple or Google will support all lqanguage. Or we can expect but they will not. So room for third party.

 

[Dr McKay]

The world contains people other than "you"

They may have different preferences.

It’s astounding how many people on this site struggle with that concept.

 

[Royksöpp]

Wow! Lucky Them!

 

[TracerAnalog]

Options = good. But I want Siri to work as advertised! I DO want a privacy oriented assistant, and will never allow other 'assistants' or apps to scrape my phone for data and sell it...

 

[Ralfi]

This is massive. & could be the best & most significant upgrade my iPhone has had in years*

*If it expands to my country.

 

[ds2000]

I'm defaulted to chatGPT now anyway, results are slower but at least I get actual results.

 

[ToothBlueth]

Some people are so indoctrinated by AppleSpeak, they start parroting Apple’s bad faith argument of ‘security’ before any announcements, or details of its implementation are known.

Wild how people have lost critical thinking skills.

 

[svish]

Considering the state of Siri, it will be good for customers at least till Siri becomes more capable.

 

[unregbaron]

Reminds me of Apple Maps launch when they actively recommended other providers.

 

[con2apple]

"Expanding EU Regulations"

Translation: Yet another invented fine for US Companies, with Apple ofc being the primary target.

The EU is a ****ing joke.

Yes, it's terrible that EU users are given the opportunity to choose freely. Especially because Siri is the absolute best voice assistant of all time.

Oh wait… get it?

 

[iToph]

Oh Lord.... Dear EU, just get a pixel.