Apple's Services Teams to Start Working Together to Improve Siri, Maps, iCloud, and iTunes

[Fosty]

Better 5yrs too late than never?

I guess Apple had more important things to do - like getting rid of the universal audio jack.

 

[skellener]

Apple's Services Teams to Start Working Together to Improve Siri, Maps, iCloud, and iTunes
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LOL! Now they're just starting??? Wow!, Just wow!

 

[cgsnipinva]

Please Apple, stop wasting money on Siri, it's useless for the 90% of people. With this saved money you can for example improve MAIL in Spain.

Apple cannot ignore Siri as the next big frontier is moving towards voice activated AI that integrates with its ecosystem. Going forward Siri will play a bigger role in AppleTV, iPhone, and iPad (iOS platform) in addition to the macOS ecosystem.

 

[Doomtomb]

It's kind of pathetic how bad these services can be in the modern age we live...

 

[AppleScruff1]

I have had an iPhone, an iPad a MacBook Pro for three years. During that time, the cloud sync across all those devices has not worked for ONE DAY. I thought I would leave this here.

Edit: I should have said that the cloud sync has not COMPLETELY worked for ONE DAY (and by that I mean all services across all devices). About 60% of the services actually work.

It must have been something you were doing wrong. It couldn't have been Apple's fault.
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They haven't done this since the inception of Siri?

It's rather obvious.

 

[azz0r]

Anyone whos worked in a huge corporate would not be surprised by this.

 

[Bubba Satori]

The courageous pipeline of innovative collaboration.
It's practically magic.
Stay tuned.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

For me, iCloud has significantly improved over the years. It is reliable.

However, I am always perplexed by the slowness of the iTunes Store the App Store and related services. Perhaps it's because I live in the UK, but these services have been consistently slow and flaky for as long as they've existed. In comparison, Amazon's app has been much faster and slicker for the same period of time. I can only assume it's because of Amazon's superior backend servers, which are better optimised for speed and efficiency.

I think Apple should admit defeat and simply use Amazon's services wholesale, as they are clearly superior. It's now been over ten years of Amazon's dominance in this field. Much of the same also applies to Google services, which are often superior.

Funny how after all these years, the leopard's spots haven't changed. Apple still suck at services and Google still suck at hardware. If only Google hadn't backstabbed Apple back in 2007, we could have seen an amazing partnership between them amalgamating the best of both: Apple's superior hardware with Google's superior services. Ah, well.

 

[robertosh]

Apple cannot ignore Siri as the next big frontier is moving towards voice activated AI that integrates with its ecosystem. Going forward Siri will play a bigger role in AppleTV, iPhone, and iPad (iOS platform) in addition to the macOS ecosystem.

They can't ignore Siri cause they have spent a lot of resources on that.

 

[ProwlingTiger]

iCloud email definitely needs major improvement. I was with Apple since MobileMe and it hasn't improved much. I don't dare search for an email on the web interface because it will never load and returns an error. I have to use my iPhone or MacBook which limits me if I don't have my MacBook or want to use my PC and want to type a full email.