On a scale of 1-10 how overhyped was Siri by Apple

[Spink10]

5 - I enjoy Siri

 

[stickybuns]

I never saw any of the commercials (I don't own a TV) so I didn't get to experience any of the hype; however, it works as well as I would expect any voice recognition program to work. I didn't really expect much, and it has pretty much reached all of my expectations, e.g. I was able to type most of this message by talking to my phone, but I had to go back and correct some words and some punctuation.

 

[ap3604]

Siri will be a dominating feature 2-3 years from now.

 

[aluren]

Like someone else said, I would trade Siri for a 4" screen anyday.

 

[The Samurai]

9 - mainly cause it don't understand me

Tried using it a few times (mainly for writing SMS), should of just typed and not wasted my breath

 

[TheLegend]

Since the majority of the stuff I want it to do don't work in Canada,

5.

Still useful, it understands me, but has some trouble connecting in certain buildings.

 

[mcdj]

 

[wratran]

Marketing gimmick..just like FaceTime....
4s is an outdated device on release date

 

[Rocko1]

I'd say 4, but I'm not one to piss & moan too often. I mainly use Siri for adding reminders and appointments, writing the occasional text, and for switching music with earphones in. For me, it's been working great and makes me that much happier I upgraded.

I don't' think it's overhyped at all. I use it all the time in the car for texts, emails, appointments, weather, etc. Really works well.

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9 - mainly cause it don't understand me

Tried using it a few times (mainly for writing SMS), should of just typed and not wasted my breath

Well if you learn how to enunciate English properly it should work.

 

[The Samurai]

Well if you learn how to enunciate English properly it should work.

Let me know when I should stop laughing.

 

[ericrwalker]

let me know when i should stop laughing.

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[greenchiliman]

I would say about 6. Haven't used it as much as I thought I would

 

[Sedrick]

11

 

[Invincibilizer]

10

Way overhyped and more of a show off feature than a useable one.

 

[ecwhite4S]

I guess if you bought the 4S for Siri then you made a bad decision. I got the 4S because I had an LG dumbphone for the past 3 years. To me, Siri does what I ask it to do. What did you guys expect it to do?

 

[macbook pro i5]

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I agree. Maybe someday?

Read my above post the server load is horrendous and all the people that had a 4s crashed the server the 4 would permanently molest the servers!!!!

 

[iphoneZ]

siri is total gimpware but apple didn't hype it that much, only 2-3 i say. most of the hype came from blogs and that dumb ex darpa guy

 

[tarasis]

Marketing gimmick..just like FaceTime....
4s is an outdated device on release date

FaceTime, while not something I use often due to being Wifi only, does work well. The call quality has been consistently better than either Skype or Google's video chat (that iPhone 4S to iPhone 4 calls).

 

[Stealthipad]

I feel similarly about many of the features of my Nexus. Facial detection security, sweet! Oh wait it doesn't really work most of the time... Voice commands, ooo how luxurious. Oh nope I didn't want to search for that.... err...

I feel like a lot of these features are mostly marketing gimmicks, siri included. Maybe in the future they'll be worth while for practical uses.

Well I guess that mean that both Samsung and Apple lie to their users.

In the end, the GS2 is from the future compared to the long toothed 4S.

 

[Winni]

I'd say a solid 8, Apple marketing overhyped Siri to be way more useful and effective than it is in its current form. It seems like people who don't have the 4S are more enamored with Siri than people who do own one and have tried using it for actual productivity instead of messing around.

I agree with your assessment, and accordingly I find it little surprising that the noise around Siri has already gotten a lot quieter.

The most impressive aspect of Siri is the marketing around it. Microsoft has played with such a technology back in the late 1990s, when they integrated speech recognition into their Agent technology. Android has had voice recognition for quite a while now and there even were free assistants that are a mix of MS Agents and Siri available in the Android market for years, too. But nobody ever spoke much about them. Now comes Siri with a lot of marketing tam-tam and everybody seems to believe that Apple came up with something brand new. Sure, that's good marketing. But that's almost all that it is.

 

[daveathall]

Bit of a gimmick for me, doesn't work well enough, I'm sure with further updates it will be a "killer" feature.

JMHO.

 

[OneMike]

I'd say 1. I don't remember it being overhyped. Speculated by others outside Apple, but overhyped no.

It does what they showed in the keynote. I'm happy with it. Can be a lot better, but very useful as is.

 

[Certinfy]

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An 8 I would say.

 

[asleep]

There's plenty you can use Siri for.

If you can't figure out ways to integrate Siri into your life, that's your fault.

 

[speed4tu]

I give it a 4. It understands me well and gets about 75-80% of what I say correct. i use it quite a bit for google searches and calculator functions. Yes it can do math for those of you who hadn't tried it. Can even do small equations.