Alexa is amazing. I resisted, now have 3. Works like a charm 99% of the time. Have smart lights/lamps, etc. Spotify and Apple Music both set up. Very happy with them. My wife and I tried HomePod Minis and Siri just killed it for us. The new Echo with clock and temp are not only much less expensive but are just far more useful simply because Alexa is so much better overall.
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iOS 18 Rumored to Feature Major Siri Improvements
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I for one don’t trust Siri, so I turned it off for my iPhone and iPad, and will not use it unless it has improved.
The iOS haven't dropped yet. These folks already talking about the iOS 18?!?! Man, they don't take a breath at all to let things progress before speaking on new stuffs. Just crazy and out of their minds.
I think you'll find this really helpful! You can actually let Siri know how to pronounce any one of your contacts.
How to Correct Siri's Pronunciation of Names
Apple's digital assistant Siri is pretty good at pronouncing names correctly, but occasionally one will confound it. Fortunately, you can help...
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You're welcome 😉
Why put off tomorrow what you could have done today. With all the complaints and the introduction to things like ChatGPT and Bing, Apple should have done this for IOS 17. Siri will always be behind everything else and that is sad.
If news of Alexa supposedly losing favour at Amazon is anything to go by, you might not need to wait till 2025 if Amazon ends up discontinuing it before then.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company’s biggest money loser.
arstechnica.com
For home related stuff, Siri works well. I have free security video upload through Apple, I can open and close gates, turn lights on and play music. I can ask for temperature readings in most rooms (with HomePod Mini and Eve temp gauges).
If I want to find something out on the web, I would definitely not trust Google or Alexa to do it for me.
Why are people trying to outsource and lose control of their research to an advertising company or online store?
Siri 2010 “sorry I can’t help with that ”
Siri 2011 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2012 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2013 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2014 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2015 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2016 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2018 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2019 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2020 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2021 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2022 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2023 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Hmm 🤔 I wonder what Siri 2024 will bring us?
Siri 2011 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2012 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2013 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2014 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2015 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2016 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2018 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2019 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2020 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2021 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2022 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Siri 2023 “sorry I can’t help with that”
Hmm 🤔 I wonder what Siri 2024 will bring us?
The fact that "pedophile" is your go-to insult says a LOT about who you are as a person.....and probably not things you WANT to be said. And that's not even touching on the fact that Siris improving or not has 0 relation to if the person in charge is a pedophile or not.
Learn to adult.
I do too. Siri works great for me.
Whining about Siri is always a crowd-pleaser and forum cred-builder, though.
Sorry, but I'm tired of seeing this excuse trotted out. Siri's utter crappiness has nothing to do with respecting privacy. The constant disappointments are not because it doesn't have access to the data it needs. It's because they bought a dead-end product more than a decade ago and never properly addressed it until they fell way behind.
Just one recent example. I told Siri to remind me when I get home to do a thing. I could see that it understood me correctly. It knows where my home is. It has access to my Reminders. Yet it failed because I had cellular data turned off. It worked when I turned it back on.
Why on Earth does that need to go out to the Internet? How does that have anything to do with respecting privacy? All of that information was available offline, on device.
They've claimed for two years now that Siri can do a lot of things on-device, yet every single non-trivial thing I've ever tried requires Internet access.
My favorite thing is when she can’t answer a very basic question while I’m driving. I have to wait until I’m parked for her to give any coherent response. Whereas Google assistant on Android will give a detailed audio response. I also hate when there’s lag and she keeps saying “just a sec” several times followed by “sorry I can’t help with that.” I also love when I ask her to play songs from an artist on Apple Music like “play River Flows In You by Yiruma” and she’s like “Okay. Playing Drop It Like It’s Hot by Lil Wayne.”
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I don’t search for anything overly personal on the web through Alexa. I order stuff on Amazon like Nespresso pods. I use Alexa for timer, recipes, weather, music, announcement, etc. I just find Alexa to be far more consistent and thorough for the intended use. I don’t trust Apple’s privacy in any case. I have a conversation about literally anything and yet I get an advertisement for that very product, location, vehicle, on my Instagram. Can’t blame Instagram as either Apple allows Instagram to use microphone unauthorized (I have microphone and photos access turned off for Instagram anyway) or Apple doesn’t have code to prevent apps from actually listening. In either case, that’s on Apple. I have “Siri” voice activated turned off and have for years, and yet my phone still seems to listen to me regardless.
Yeah, but it will actually be tea and then tell us sorry when it gets it wrong, then serve us lemonade.
I feel like we heard this 10 years ago and it's still about as bad as it was when new. It's insane to me that Siri in 2023 and 2024 still won't be as good as Google Asst. was when it debuted. Can't do or answer **** unless you pick up your phone and unlock it. Just CRAZY how awful Siri is.
It always answers from the wrong device. I can be on my phone and try to tell it to stop the music, and an iPad from across the house answers me and says there's nothing to stop! Then I'll get in the shower and tell a device in the bathroom to play music and it starts BLASTING music on my stereo HomePods downstairs. Obviously, I can't stop it using any commands from any device until I go downstairs and tell the HomePods directly to stop. I think maybe once in a while I've gotten it to stop an alarm on a different device. Maybe. I think that was Siri's best achievement I've ever seen, and I feel like it has worked 10% of the time.
It always answers from the wrong device. I can be on my phone and try to tell it to stop the music, and an iPad from across the house answers me and says there's nothing to stop! Then I'll get in the shower and tell a device in the bathroom to play music and it starts BLASTING music on my stereo HomePods downstairs. Obviously, I can't stop it using any commands from any device until I go downstairs and tell the HomePods directly to stop. I think maybe once in a while I've gotten it to stop an alarm on a different device. Maybe. I think that was Siri's best achievement I've ever seen, and I feel like it has worked 10% of the time.
I’d settle for it just to reliably play the playlist I ask, instead of half the time pulling some random crap.
Nothing is a ridiculous claim. Is it entirely responsible for its failings? Doubtful, but don’t pretend for a second that Google/Alexa got so good because they were focussed on privacy. On the contrary, I believe they improved so rapidly because they care nothing about your privacy and invade it as much as they legally, or illegally can.
I have found when using Siri, they way we articulate words is more important than with the advertising and sales company versions. The reasons it needs to be connected to the internet? Like the others, they’re cloud based. It does some pre processing on the device, but the main works still done in the cloud. How smart are Google & Alexa when not connected? So one rule for them, and one for Apple?
You do know that Instagram is Facebook, right? And you gave your rights to privacy away when you put it on your device. Here’s the test. Does the same thing happen with Android, or is it less or more?