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Siri and Pixel's Google Assistant Compete Side-by-Side in New Video

Siri responds differently through blue tooth and through the button. You can configure if you want Siri to provide more reading or not.
 
MH01 said:
I own google, Microsoft and apple devices, and my most infuriating experice at the moment is my iPad Pro, it's on 9.3.5.... and I wish to stay in it till 10.1 or 10.2 cause I don't want to deal with buggy software , and every %{%}**{^{ day I get a popup message saying upgrade to 10.....hitting later brings up a scheduled install , which I have to once again hit no to..... and every day I have to go through this......apple does not give a hoot about me the customer, they want me to upgrade asap...and I've never seen such aggressive push by another company...it's really intrusive.
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I hate when Apple does that. Very annoying. A reminder everyday until you bite. Then buggy software when you do. That's why so many people want to downgrade. I can't believe the SE had great battery life until iOS10. Then when we don't update, the app might get broken and needs a minimum firmware.

That's how Apple works. You love it at first with iOS devices. Then they bombard you later with update notifications before you start hating it. Check out ColdFusion video of Google. They have AI and robot technology well ahead of Apple.
 
When Siri first arrived, I was mesmerized. I just knew it would only get better. Several years later, I've resigned myself that it is garbage.
 
Soccertess said:
All I get when I ask Siri is.. This is what I found on the web, and it's never accurate.

I wish we could fire siri and use Google assistant or google now! When I use google now on my friends phone, it just seems to work so much better and understand me a lot better.

I guess i'll go back to dreaming that maybe one day Siri and Tim will go!
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You do know no one is holding a gun to your head, you can go to Android and be rid of Siri and Tim at anytime.
 
ipedro said:
This comes across to me as though Marques uses Android as his daily phone and knows what to expect from it and hopes that Siri will give him the same result, and not the other way around. For example, he either doesn't know or purposefully omitted that you can ask Siri for "my pictures of cats" and she will show you your own pictures of cats, rather than generic pictures of cats. He also persisted on asking a contextual follow up question when Siri clearly missed the original question. Of course she's not going to know the follow up. For the record, she understood the same exact question when I asked "How tall is Barack Obama" and unlimited follow ups like "where was he born", "how old is he", etc etc etc... Siri also understood "Mark Zuckerberg" the first time I asked. I was impressed that Siri was consistently faster at answering questions than Google Assistant and I appreciated the presentation of the answers in a well designed card instead of the small busy copy in Google's responses. Finally, another one of his criticisms was that Siri presents visual information rather than read it out. Again, his ignorance of iOS is showing. Siri will read information to you when she thinks that you're doing an activity where you're not looking at the screen. For example, when summoning Siri with "Hey Siri", she will read you the answer. If you call her up by pressing the headphone mic button, she'll present information audibly. But when you're pressing the home button to bring up Siri, she correctly assumes that you have the iPhone in front of you and gives you visual information. Either Brownlee is showing favouritism in his comparisons or he needs to learn more about iOS if he wants to remain credible.
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TBH, your criticism could apply equally to yourself. Either you are showing favouritism by defending Siri in an excessively verbose manner or you are ignorant to just how pathetic it is that, at this point in her development with iPhone 7 hardware and integrated cloud supercomputing, she cannot name who the current sitting U.S. president is.
 
ipedro said:
This comes across to me as though Marques uses Android as his daily phone and knows what to expect from it and hopes that Siri will give him the same result, and not the other way around. For example, he either doesn't know or purposefully omitted that you can ask Siri for "my pictures of cats" and she will show you your own pictures of cats, rather than generic pictures of cats.

He also persisted on asking a contextual follow up question when Siri clearly missed the original question. Of course she's not going to know the follow up. For the record, she understood the same exact question when I asked "How tall is Barack Obama" and unlimited follow ups like "where was he born", "how old is he", etc etc etc... Siri also understood "Mark Zuckerberg" the first time I asked.

I was impressed that Siri was consistently faster at answering questions than Google Assistant and I appreciated the presentation of the answers in a well designed card instead of the small busy copy in Google's responses.

Finally, another one of his criticisms was that Siri presents visual information rather than read it out. Again, his ignorance of iOS is showing. Siri will read information to you when she thinks that you're doing an activity where you're not looking at the screen. For example, when summoning Siri with "Hey Siri", she will read you the answer. If you call her up by pressing the headphone mic button, she'll present information audibly. But when you're pressing the home button to bring up Siri, she correctly assumes that you have the iPhone in front of you and gives you visual information.

Either Brownlee is showing favouritism in his comparisons or he needs to learn more about iOS if he wants to remain credible.
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Can you honestly tell me that you learn about windows or android features when your compare thier devices to your daily drivers. No way.

You judge the competition based on your expectations and needs.

It's what I do, I judge android and windows devices based on how I do things on iPhone, and that is....100 % bias .

I'm sorry but when people on here are discrediting this reviewer based on one review and stating they are no longer going to follow thier reviews cause he did not go out of his way to reasearch why Siri does what it it does is sad.

We Mac users are the biggest hypocrites cause we believe our way is the best way, and we measure and judge the competition against how our devices work, we are the most bias as it comes, least likely to switch.

Reality check guys, the review was not for apple fans!! Read the comments in the review, it was aimed at android users to show them Siri is not as crap as they all think it is. And from that perspective you ask the same questions you would ask on android.....

Can I ask you, if you did the same review, would you spent weeks learning about google assistant to understand why some of your answers were not being answered they way you expected, and modifying them?? No, you would get two devices and have set test outcomes and test away....and you would test according how you do things on a daily basis.
 
dan110 said:
When Siri first arrived, I was mesmerized. I just knew it would only get better. Several years later, I've resigned myself that it is garbage.
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In summary, your post is accurate. Siri was really intuitive and well nuanced years ago. Siri has degraded these past few years. And now, more than ever, deciphering and dictation are an absolute chore for Siri. And not to be biased, I will say one thing to Siri and then use the same wording to Google. Which Google wins by a landslide in speed, accuracy, deciphering and overall usefulness.

Siri is adequate for general enhancements on the iPhone and does well with tasking through messages, calendar events and toggling user settings. But other than that, it's My last resort.

It appears Apple is working to advance Siri as of recent, hiring a team to advance its capabilities.
 
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miknos said:
Never expected Siri to be that good. I was expecting to be waaaaaay worse than Googles' assistant.
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It's crazy how much of a meme "bad Siri" is when you can see that it's generally in the same ballpark as Google, though behind on following context.
 
theheadguy said:
TBH, your criticism could apply equally to yourself. Either you are showing favouritism by defending Siri in an excessively verbose manner or you are ignorant to just how pathetic it is that, at this point in her development with iPhone 7 hardware and integrated cloud supercomputing, she cannot name who the current sitting U.S. president is.
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Except he is not. He pointed to the cases where that guy clearly applied double standards to the Siri and GA.
 
ipedro said:
This comes across to me as though Marques uses Android as his daily phone and knows what to expect from it and hopes that Siri will give him the same result, and not the other way around. For example, he either doesn't know or purposefully omitted that you can ask Siri for "my pictures of cats" and she will show you your own pictures of cats, rather than generic pictures of cats.

He also persisted on asking a contextual follow up question when Siri clearly missed the original question. Of course she's not going to know the follow up. For the record, she understood the same exact question when I asked "How tall is Barack Obama" and unlimited follow ups like "where was he born", "how old is he", etc etc etc... Siri also understood "Mark Zuckerberg" the first time I asked.

I was impressed that Siri was consistently faster at answering questions than Google Assistant and I appreciated the presentation of the answers in a well designed card instead of the small busy copy in Google's responses.

Finally, another one of his criticisms was that Siri presents visual information rather than read it out. Again, his ignorance of iOS is showing. Siri will read information to you when she thinks that you're doing an activity where you're not looking at the screen. For example, when summoning Siri with "Hey Siri", she will read you the answer. If you call her up by pressing the headphone mic button, she'll present information audibly. But when you're pressing the home button to bring up Siri, she correctly assumes that you have the iPhone in front of you and gives you visual information.

Either Brownlee is showing favouritism in his comparisons or he needs to learn more about iOS if he wants to remain credible.
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Or perhaps someone with the screen name"ipedro" can't see past his sycophantic veil?
Even noted Apple butt-kisser Walt Mossberg recently wrote an article calling Siri dumb.
That Siri is behind in most respects in the AI arena is not news. Competition is good.
 
jimbobb24 said:
Sure, but not the last game the Blazers played. They have played preseason games so ignoring that is a mistake.
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Completely understood but key word being 'pre-season'. While I do agree that there's no excuse for not including these games, too, unless I'm a hardcore fan, I won't be too upset by it. (Certainly room for improvement for company's assistants.)
 
69Mustang said:
Your quote shows that you don't understand how Siri works. It might also show you don't understand how Google's assistant works either, but it definitely shows you don't understand how Siri works.

This invasion of privacy you speak of... what exactly do you think is private that Google is tracking and mining for it's assistant that Apple isn't tracking and mining for Siri?
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Your explanation shows you don't understand what is Google and what is Apple.
 
waitandwait said:
Your explanation shows you don't understand what is Google and what is Apple.
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Your quote shows you didn't quite understand what you read.:rolleyes: There's nothing in my quote describing what Google is or what Apple is. My quote is about the digital assistants and your lack of understanding of how they work. Google and Apple respectively, were topics that were never broached.

fwiw, you never answered the question about the invasion of privacy perpetrated by Google for it's assistant vs Apple's non-invasion via Siri. It's okay though.:)
 
waitandwait said:
Way Ahead? In your dreams? Bet you haven't watched the video...

Anyway Siri is really good.. considering they don't invade my privacy and collect my information and track my location to collect this data for their Assistant...
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Apple don't invade your privacy not collect data?Hahahaha.Here is a reality check.I can't believe people actually fall for Apple's marketing .We literally have Lisa boast about how they are sharing data with the govt thousands of times every month

https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/25/lisa-jackson-podesta-email/
 
Radon87000 said:
Apple don't invade your privacy not collect data?Hahahaha.Here is a reality check.I can't believe people actually fall for Apple's marketing .We literally have Lisa boast about how they are sharing data with the govt thousands of times every month

https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/25/lisa-jackson-podesta-email/
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Did you even bother to read the link you inserted?
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69Mustang said:
Your quote shows you didn't quite understand what you read.:rolleyes: There's nothing in my quote describing what Google is or what Apple is. My quote is about the digital assistants and your lack of understanding of how they work. Google and Apple respectively, were topics that were never broached.

fwiw, you never answered the question about the invasion of privacy perpetrated by Google for it's assistant vs Apple's non-invasion via Siri. It's okay though.:)
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Your quote shows you didn't quite understand about how Google and Google Assistant works or how Apple and Siri works.

The video here already proves that Apple's Siri is on par or even better than Google in many ways, without compromising on our privacy.

Seems like you don't know the Assistant is just another tool for Google to collect data for their Ads.
 
waitandwait said:
Did you even bother to read the link you inserted?
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Your quote shows you didn't quite understand about how Google and Google Assistant works or how Apple and Siri works.

The video here already proves that Apple's Siri is on par or even better than Google in many ways, without compromising on our privacy.

Seems like you don't know the Assistant is just another tool for Google to collect data for their Ads.
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What invasion of privacy occurred when Google Assistant was answering the questions?
 
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