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i bet siri won't work as good as they make it out to be

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the mood for someone to tell me a joke and called someone up and asked him to tell me one, and almost every single time the person will say he can't think of one. So my judgement will largely depend on how many jokes Siri knows because that would be a key feature to me.

And they better be blue and make sense. None of this, "Orange you glad I didn't say banana," which I don't get. Now why exactly should I prefer the computer say orange over banana? I don't get it, and it's not blue. Some riddles would be nice, too.
 
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FaceTime works great for me.
 
Not sure if she's er.... it....is capable of doing it or not, but it would be awesome to tell it to launch apps, without having to do it yourself. For example, "Launch Army of Darkness Defense" (currently my favorite game). Would be pretty sweet.

I definitely don't think it'll be a disappointment though. Not with all of the years of design and time out in the field as an app it has, not to mention the tech giant known as :apple: purchasing and tweaking it with its seemingly infinite power lol.
 
Siri will be judged by time. If it learns from you past voice commands and it updated on a regular basis, it might become very popular.

If it does not work, I hope you can remove the Siri Icon.

My Galaxy S2 sure did do speech to text VERY well. If it will at least do this, I will be happy. I am afraid many lonely people will be disappointed as they might expect it to substitute for a friend!:eek:
 
I have a feeling there is going to be tons of frustration. Pretty much the same when I call up my local Water or Electricity supplier.

"Hello. To ensure you reach the correct department, please say your postcode."
"SW2 4HS"
You said F…S…4…Y…9…8… If this is correct, please press 2 or 0 to try again…"

Presses 0 and tries again…

"You said G…8…T…4…2…O…If this is correct, please press 2 or 0 to try again…"

Presses 0 and you try again…

"I'm sorry we did not recognise your input. Thank you for calling Thames Water… Goodbye."

"Aaaaaaaaarggghhhh!!!"
 
Eddyisgreat said:
Fully disagree. jobs wouldn't have let it leave the stable if it didn't work properly.
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That's total BS.

Antennagate is a perfect example. The Wall St Journal reported that Apples engineers told Jobs about the antenna failure before the phone shipped, yet he ignored them and gave the order to ship it.

Then when the public discovered the problem he flipped us off saying "You're Holding It Wrong".

Fanboys will take anything they're so passive.
 
boshii said:
Everybody should know by now that Apple doesn't release a feature until they get it working perfectly (i.e. cut/paste, MMS)
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How many times has Apple slapped a "Beta" tag on an advertised feature? Apple really needed to push Siri onto this years iPhone because without it then the 4 to 4S upgrade isnt very extreme.

I dont feel Siri will work top to bottom the way end users expect it to but I do feel that they got it to the point where it is useful and will improve drastically over a short period of time. And personally, if it ONLY does what they advertise (make reminders, reply to text) then it's a home run.
 
jessica. said:
Badandy said:
Brushing up on your grammar could help Siri work better.
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The biggest problem with Siri will be the users. I couldn't agree with the above statement more.
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I agree that the biggest problem with Siri will be the users but I totally disagree with the rest of the above. The title of this thread is ungrammatical but everyone here seemed to be able to understand it and I think that it's safe to assume that the OP wrote it on the assumption that it would be understood and was probably oblivious to the fact that it is poor grammar. Siri's job is to understand the input so it is its responsibility to handle the sort of grammar mistakes encountered in real life. If a sales person is in a meeting and is told "My boss and me want to give you an order" then it would be a pretty strange (and probably spectacularly unsuccessful) sales person who replied "I'm sorry but I don't understand what you just said due to your poor grammar".

The issue that could hurt Siri is user expectations and in a way the better it works the more significant that issue becomes. Right now Siri is really only doing lookups and basic commands but if it does a fantastic job of handling the "find out the flight times from London to Paris" types of requests then it becomes a small step for a user to start assuming that Siri can do more sophisticated reasoning and answer questions such as "See if it makes sense for me to put back my ARM meeting by a day or two so that I can fit in the visit to HP in Grenoble next week instead of the week after". That requires a whole step up in capabilities that I suspect will arrive eventually but, while we wait, there will be inevitable frustration as users cross the line between what the then-current version of Siri can and can't do and in those cases it won't be Siri's fault. I used an extreme example to illustrate the point, and I doubt that many users would assume that Siri could process my ARM/HP example on the basis of the currently advertised capabilities, but there is always going to be a line between what Siri can and can't do and it is the inadvertent crossing of that line by users that poses a danger to Siri's reputation.

- Julian
 
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oh its going to work. Jobs would never let anything in his phone without it working 100%. The antenna thing worked if you didnt death grip your phone :p
 
To be fair the current voice stuff on iphone isn't that great. I'm expecting this to be an incremental improvement, but not mind blowing. Quite happy to see how it goes though.
 
F123D said:
If Siri can start solving my problems at work or kids homework at school, maybe it could be a good thing..

I just don't see people sitting in the office talking to their phones or kids at school talking out loud to text each other. In the car, yes. In a room of people or a crowded place, not as much.
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That's why I reckon will be soooo much better when it reaches iPad. The iPad is something you'd rather set down on a table at home and you'd feel way more comfortable speaking to it in that situation rather than telling your phone to Wikipedia Neil Armstrong next to a bunch of strangers on a train.
 
aurichie said:
As I said in another thread, listen to the last 10 minutes of this week's podcast "hypercritical" with John Siracusa. He explains why Siri will be a disappointment to many people.
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Could this be one of the same experts who claimed initial sales of the 4G would be disppointing? :D
 
swingerofbirch said:
I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the mood for someone to tell me a joke and called someone up and asked him to tell me one, and almost every single time the person will say he can't think of one. So my judgement will largely depend on how many jokes Siri knows because that would be a key feature to me.

And they better be blue and make sense. None of this, "Orange you glad I didn't say banana," which I don't get. Now why exactly should I prefer the computer say orange over banana? I don't get it, and it's not blue. Some riddles would be nice, too.
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A bear and a rabbit are taking a poop in the woods...

The bear turns to the rabbit and says, "Excuse me, do you have problems with poo sticking to your fur??"

The bunny replied "No".

So the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit.
 
AIP5 said:
But that's not to say it will be perfect all the time. Every now and then it doesn't recognize a word or two correctly, but that's bound to happen sometime.
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yeah, and it's not like humans understand each other perfectly all the time either. I bet some people on here are going to expect it to work better than an actual real person would.
 
JulianL said:
I agree that the biggest problem with Siri will be the users but I totally disagree with the rest of the above.
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Tongue in cheek pal. ;) Sure, Siri will likely draw the lines to connect the dots but I do believe, similar to you, that the biggest problem with Siri will be the users. I was not specific and that was very intentional.
 
KylePowers said:
I can't wait to see how well it serves me as a student... perhaps telling me which color bands can be found on a 4.7K resistor or the integral of some absurd formula. Engineering stuff.
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It definitely will if it pulls from Wolfram. I already have been using Wolfram for this. It shows the band colors, and if it is a non-standard resistance, it will show what resistors you can use in parallel / series to get the exact value you need.
 
Eddyisgreat said:
Fully disagree. jobs wouldn't have let it leave the stable if it didn't work properly.
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Ha! Yeah, right. You new to Apple products?

Apple has always liberally embellished this advertisements. Everything from the doctored FaceTime screen (which they later changed) to them showing webpages instantly opening upon clicking a link (which they were sued for). In fact, I'm sure the demo during the keynote was completely scripted. That is, no matter what/how they spoke, the iPhone would have gave the same answer. Now, you and I know electronics can sometimes act funny, but if Siri didn't work properly during the keynote, it would have been damaging. We'll have to see how this pans out.
 
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