You would think so, but Apple seems determined to attach Siri updates to major iOS releases. It’s infuriating.
What I find infuriating is Siri replaced the built-in system yet for the most simplestic functions, Siri cannot complete without an Internet connection:
Check the time,
Set an alarm
Set a reminder
Invoke a Calendar appointment (using local calendar, local contacts that have local address therein (example 1 below).
Can’t set an current action to be done when internet connection is re-established (example 2 below).
Toronto Subway (TTC) only allows 1 carrier data throughout and its be crappiest carrier for signal above ground. During rush hour commutes or during weekend rides either the “free” Wi-Fi is too congested to get authenticated through the very slow share sheet pop up which on various weeks could be a simple tap to accept policies, other times to sign in to Twitter account (does NOt recognize previous iOS settings logon or the official app), other times to move an icon from one side of the screen to another. It’s just too slow before the train leaves the station and you loose the signal until the train gets to a complete stop at the next station. It’s the worst implementation in the world.
Siri localization functionality example 1:
Hey Siri, set a Calendar appointment to see my doctor this Saturday at 1PM.
- if I can manually type this into the calendar without an internet connection why can’t a local API do this handsfree? Why restrict it?
Siri localizarion functionality example 2:
Hey Siri. Send an email to my boss when I have carrier signal: (voice dictate the email).
- this can be a draft and then Siri can send soon as I have carrier connectivity with data.
PS; during TTC rush hour trains are so packed you only have handsfree to hold onto a railing to operate a headset, phone, watch or hold your laptop bag, briefcase etc.
I said this many times when it came up in a discussion that yearly updates have to stop including WWDC. Current features need bug fixing and some need to be expanded like "Do not Disturb". Some features do not work very well with VPN like copy and paste.
I hope you’re not referring to copy n paste credentials into VPN which should never be enabled on any platform in my opinion and experience.
Some functionality within a VPN connection maybe disabled by the VPN app or MDM security profiles installed. Could be something else like a RDP app that has restrictions or the remote sites desktop/environment having restrictions.
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I don't think Tim Cook is worried that you lack faith in their strategy. No company in the history of the world knows as much about winning. They just set another all time world record for revenue in one quarter $88 BILLION, and they are the most valuable company in the history of the world. They've dominated just about every category they've entered as the ankle biters sneered at them for being late, out of touch, overpriced, etc.,
- They just reached an installed base of over 1.3 BILLION devices, a 30% growth just two years.
- Siri is by far the most used personal assistant in the world, with REGULAR use by over 500 million people.
- Just became the largest seller of cell phones in the world, but more importantly, they have over 90% of the ENTIRE cell phone industry profits for smart phones
- They now have 85% of contactless payment market in US
- They are now largest wireless headphone maker in world
- They have over 60% of premium headphone market in world
- Apple Music now #2 in the world
I could go on, but you get the point.
Winning!
Indeed they are winning and so successfully so. Yet it seems their ego/ignorance for quality of features has grown.
There is an old saying .... “The bigger they are, the harder they fall”.
Exxon
Anderson & Anderson
Just to make two. There is plenty more of we co side USA bailouts. Nothing flies high in the sky forever while nothing crawls on the ground forever.
It's probably relative to how satisfied you are with the product and how useful the overall experience is to each of us. I (and I suspect many others here) have no problem with Apple adding a feature we can simply ignore if we don't find it useful. But when we see release after release with emoji updates while other functionality we find more useful to us is not improved upon, we will complain about it. To suggest it is somehow "wrong" to do so as some (not necessarily you) often do, and to dismiss it as strictly an age-related thing is silly. In this instance, there is ample evidence of an age gap with emoji use, but the same is not necessarily true for Siri and other features that could be improved upon and are not.
I've been an Apple consumer since the early 90s. I am among those who feel Apple has been on a downhill slide for some years now in terms of robustness, intuitiveness, and minimal intrusiveness (something I REALLY appreciated). I didn't mind paying a premium because at the time their products were discernibly superior for my uses. Well, "It just works" is not really true any more. At this rate, a day will come when the "premium" is no longer justified for me. I think this is true for a lot of us. So yeah, getting hassled on an increasingly regular basis to update my mobile devices for new emojis is very disappointing.
Well said. Honestly brilliantly stated. Love the online tag - great memories from the talking horse.
my pops would love it!
