Same here regarding upgrading, as I am not sold on the 5 and also have too much viable 30 pin ecosystem equipment and accessories.
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Same here regarding upgrading, as I am not sold on the 5 and also have too much viable 30 pin ecosystem equipment and accessories.
Offline Siri and offline or cached maps option would be murderous. I like the idea of Google Voice, but Siri is useful because we can call her up with a hardware button. It comes down to that for me.
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While it would have been cool of them to include the option on the 3GS and 4 (I know it was working for those when it was an app store app), from testing Siri is much more responsive with the 4S processor, and even more so with the 5. So they filed this under the rationalization of safeguarding the user experience and hoped that people upgraded quickly.
Siri played Listomania on the first try for me, but I didn't call it "a listzomania (sic)", as that's not the name of the song. I just said "Play the song Lisztomania."
Didn't fare as well specifically for the cast of ST2WoK, but simply searching for "Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan" gave me the right link on IMDB at the top.
Siri could learn something from Google Voice
siri is garbage.
i truly wish it worked as well as google voice
siri is garbage.
i truly wish it worked as well as google voice
are you sure your siri is set to german?
Justin Timberlake: Tasten Tenderweg
Psy: Zwei - You should find answers about the iPad 2 at the apple store LOL
Angels & Airwaves: Entschlüssen LOS
Coldplay: Komplett (Complete)
Drake: König (King) LOL
So Siri knows what kind of donut I'm eating? That's amazing.
What if I'm eating a chocolate cover donut and a cream cheese donut.
Seems a little misleading...
Unfortunately commercials is all Siri is good for.
Siri could learn something from Google Voice
siri is garbage.
i truly wish it worked as well as google voice
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...vs-siri-virtual-assistants-duke-it-out-video/
Seems to work just as good.
Right. Exactly the problem. Siri is advertised to understand natural language. It really doesn't. You have to know that Siri won't understand 'who stars in______' you have to learn that Siri can only take bite sized pieces of information - "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan", and you have to know what bite sized pieces of information Siri's good at. Another example: saying "set an alarm in 1 hour's time to pick up the laundry" won't work... you have to say like this: "Remind me in 1 hour to pick up the laundry". Both sentences make sense, but Siri can only understand the second version of the command. You have to learn that. For some, and it seems like for a lot of people, it's not natural. Ergo, it's not good. Simply peppering it with one-liners like 'Don't worry, I won't forget' doesn't give it a personality..
btw, thanks tips on the spelling of "a listzomania (sic)"............ lol...
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No. I do not accept that in relation to 4, a phone one generation old at the time and still sold and supported.
That is like coming to the natural conclusion that OSX Mountain lion is faster and more responsive on a top of the range Mac Pro and so disable features on a MacBook Air to preserve user experience. Nonsense.
Siri's biggest problem, IMO, is lack of common sense intelligence. I ask it to call my fiancé, who is literally 80% of my phone calls. It brings up 5 results for people whose names start with the same letter
I guess the alternative is Google, which literally combs through your stuff. Seriously - thanks for tracking my FedEx package, but it's creepy that they pulled that out of my email without asking
you're doing it wrong.....Siri knows the difference between my girlfriend, and my fiancee...have you told Siri who your fiancee is?
Do you mean two side by side graphically open apps? Umm, I wouldn't hold my breath... right now that would ONLY be a viable experience on iPad full-size.. & even then, only on a small amount of apps. What are you even talking about? What is it that you are wanting to do?
I absolutely LOVE my iOS multitasking. I open soundcloud.com in Safari, start streaming tunes, minimize by tapping the home button, the music is still playing pleasantly, I check my email, etc.. Lol, I hope i dont have to explain to you why having multiple open screens simultaneously on a 4" iPhone screen would not be handy in the slightest, as opposed to.. let's say, a 27" iMac.
Seriously. Apple Maps? Worked near flawlessly for me since day 1. Siri? Had nothing but problems with it since day 1. That recent Microsoft ad making fun of the iPad (and Siri's lack of functionality) should be a giant wake up call for Apple (if they hadn't had one already).
Microsoft has its own problems to worry about, let alone point out a competitors.
Google turn by turn works on the iPhone 4, but not very well. It often forgets to tell you to turn, and its ability to reroute directions is poor. With that said, I have Navigon installed on my iphone 4, which does work well.
I suspect the lack if turn by turn by Apple on the iPhone is related to the lack of Siri support.
To some posters here, whatever Apple does will always be "behind Google" or "behind Samsung".
Works if I just say Star Trek two. It should work with the whole title however
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They never spend a second looking at all the bad results google gives. To the google is 100%
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But...but....google can tell me calories for 1000 THOUSAND! foods......unlike all those iOS apps that do the same thing.... What?
Seriously, iOS has been doing multitasking just fine. The music apps excel at this, second to none. What they are talking bout is having two apps side by side (split screen). Unless the two apps know how to collaborate, this is a big meh.
Even the ads for this "feature" basically show you interrupting your activity (watching video, creating a spreadsheet, etc) to basically type out a message. That's not multitasking. Not in any meaningful sense. Nobody needs to watch a movie and type an email.
Aside from the well-known fact that Siri is suboptimal, it is particularly annoying that Apple is in a partnership with Nuance; Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows is a far superior product to DragonDictate for Mac. You would think that if Apple is closely associated with Nuance, that there might be some improvements with this software to parity with the other platform, but it seems to keep falling further behind
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The next Siri improvement: Movie booking, Dinner reservation now works in several "more" countries.
Apparently since launch, Siri does not serve me in those regional specific stuff other than messaging, calling, the usual. I can't even use Siri to navigate me to places (the Apple maps in my area is cold and un-updated).
Usual response from Siri: Sorry, I don't understand; Sorry, I couldn't find restaurants in Malaysia, And more.
Apparently since launch, Siri does not serve me in those regional specific stuff other than messaging, calling, the usual. I can't even use Siri to navigate me to places (the Apple maps in my area is cold and un-updated).
Usual response from Siri: Sorry, I don't understand; Sorry, I couldn't find restaurants in Malaysia, And more.
I was referring to MS's tablet advert that shows their tablet using multiple apps simultaneously (ex. Powerpoint open next to an IM app), while the iPad cannot. Meaning, running two apps simultaneously without having to close one to get to the other.
What you're describing are background tasks, requiring the home button to switch between apps, limiting the ability to work with two app's at once. Double click home button, switch to Mail, double click home button, switch to Pages, double click home button, switch to Messages to communicate with work colleague, double click home button... etc, etc. (or use the four finger gestures to access the task bar) That's tedious and isn't an ideal workflow.
Think of it this way, you're on your 27" iMac with a Safari window open next to your Mail window, working between both. Now bring that ability to the iPad. Working in Pages or Keynote, have Messages running down the side of the iPad next to your other app to work with a colleague on a project.
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