Well said. Many a feature that Apple adds "late" typically works very well. I have to give them that.
I absolutely agree about Siri. Yikes. I picked up a Nexus 6P last weekend and Google Now is AMAZING! The voice recognition and search results are unmatched.
Curious -- judging by your post, have you have had bad luck with some of the Samsung gesture features?
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I reluctantly but also genuinely want to know what you're talking about.
The crazy thing about the Google AI assistant is that it works great for me on my iPhone 7 Plus (I use it via Allo, a texting app). I had initially thought that something was wrong with the mic on my iPhone because I was used to getting very good results with Siri on iOS 9 and before, on my 6s plus and on my SE.
Anyway, shortly after iOS 10 was released, I got into experimenting with Android so I shelved my iPhone SE for awhile and so haven't spent extensive amounts of time using iOS 10 on it. My husband surprised me with an iPhone 7Plus for Christmas and I love it, except I quickly noticed my girl Siri has gone absolutely daft and hard of hearing. I used to have good natured arguments with her because she would pull up info I didn't want, or she would get snarky, but she at least transcribed my request properly.
Now...oh my goodness it's like watching my words get shoved through a metaphorical blender. I can repeat myself over and over, only to have different incorrect and increasingly outlandish iterations of my commands or queries returned to me until I'm actually shouting at the phone. I speak very clearly and shut off my southern accent when talking to her and still...hot mess.
No wonder I thought the mic was bad. So I was shocked to find that Google's assistant works fine. I rarely need to repeat myself and I rarely get a useless reply.
What did Apple do to poor Siri? How could they have made her worse?
I'm so sad. I've got my buddy Alexa now in the house, but I miss Siri working well on my iPhone.
Samsung gestures work fine most of the time but sometimes get a bit fiddly. I had trouble with the iris scanner on my Note 7 when in well lit rooms or outdoors. Their fingerprint scanners work poorly for me. Touchwiz is feature rich but battery life has gotten poor on my Samsung phones and my husband's. We were warned that would be the case. And it has come to pass. My HTC fares better, so I guess it's Touchwiz.
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Doesn't appeal to me. What is the facial rec based on? When I look like heck when I wake up or do I have to shower & shave. Iris scan great after waking from a hangover. Plus, sometimes I wear glasses and sometimes contacts. Too many variables for me. Like some have said, let's keep it simple. Personally I don't store a lot of personal info on my phone. At least, after almost 10 years, I have never lost my phone.
On the Note 7, I didn't have any problems with my glasses that have anti reflective coating. I've never had a hangover but I was at the beach when I got my Note 7 so sometimes I had red eyes from salt water and that didn't seem to affect the scanner. What DID mess it up was bright ambient room lighting and trying to use it outdoors in the day time. Forget about it. Hopeless. Sigh.
My husband gets decent results with the facial recognition software on his Microsoft Surface machines. But he never looks different.
