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Siri Delivering Incorrect Weather Forecasts For Common City Names
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Looks like Apple can not handle dst yet again. You would think that in 5 years of screwing up anything to do with dst apple would fix it.
Wait a minute...
Montreal is in Canada ?!?!?
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Did you stop?
No I just submit reply
I kept on pursuin' to the next stop
I crashed Windows, heading to the next blog
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Montreal is in Canada ?!?!?
Trollin,
With my 2.5
Fingers on the keyboard, typin' this live
Commenters on standby
Laughin' sayin' I'm high
Did you stop?
No I just submit reply
I kept on pursuin' to the next stop
I crashed Windows, heading to the next blog
That blog was dead..
Look on the bright side. You get more feedback when your beta testers are your entire customer base.
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And suppose you want the weather where you aren't?
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And suppose you want the weather where you aren't?
Do you think most users give a rats ass about Siri, guarantee most users never use Siri. Sure you clever bastards on Macrumors are up in arms but you really represent a very very small fraction of Joe iPhone user. I'm willing to bet that Siri is used by less than 10% of all iPhone users.
Keep on with the pissing contents / circle jerk while real people get on with their lives.
Keep on with the pissing contents / circle jerk while real people get on with their lives.
I haven't been able to duplicate any of these. I guess it's something they can fix on their end?
Siri: colossal waste
My bone fides: Apple customer since '86. I've always preferred Apple products due to the marriage of technology and design. Technology that works; forward-looking design. I prefer and expect consumer technologies to function as advertised. When they don't, my purchases go elsewhere. I particularly despise "improvements" which fail to function as well as the current or past paradigm being replaced. (In this instance, Google search both typed and spoken for iOS.)
Siri falls dead-center into this category. Google's search (particularly voice search) is faster, easier, more efficient. It simply works. The same cannot be said for the sorry excuse called Siri. Hiccups, confusing results, bizarre failures are routine with the wacky toy Siri. If I wanted to repeat myself, or devise methods to make it perform, I'd use a puppy or pre-schooler. ("But it's Beta." "Then don't ask for my money until it's Alpha.")
I had high hopes many of the problems of this not-quite-ready-we're-almost-there-major-selling-feature would be resolved with the release of iOS 6. For this consumer, the opposite has been the case. I didn't think Siri could devolve into further uselessness. But diminish it has.
It has been disabled on my iPhone and iPad.
What a waste.
My bone fides: Apple customer since '86. I've always preferred Apple products due to the marriage of technology and design. Technology that works; forward-looking design. I prefer and expect consumer technologies to function as advertised. When they don't, my purchases go elsewhere. I particularly despise "improvements" which fail to function as well as the current or past paradigm being replaced. (In this instance, Google search both typed and spoken for iOS.)
Siri falls dead-center into this category. Google's search (particularly voice search) is faster, easier, more efficient. It simply works. The same cannot be said for the sorry excuse called Siri. Hiccups, confusing results, bizarre failures are routine with the wacky toy Siri. If I wanted to repeat myself, or devise methods to make it perform, I'd use a puppy or pre-schooler. ("But it's Beta." "Then don't ask for my money until it's Alpha.")
I had high hopes many of the problems of this not-quite-ready-we're-almost-there-major-selling-feature would be resolved with the release of iOS 6. For this consumer, the opposite has been the case. I didn't think Siri could devolve into further uselessness. But diminish it has.
It has been disabled on my iPhone and iPad.
What a waste.
Better question is the higher ups rushing stuff out the door before it is ready. It would not be the first time nor will it be the last time Apple rushes things out the door long before they are ready and the blame for the rush sits with the executive level over riding what the line guys are saying.
...and that's because Siri uses Apple Maps to find the locations!
I doubt it. Ever since the Local Weather feature was introduced (in iOS 5?) I've gotten both New York, NY & Jamaica, VA's weather (I'm in Jamaica, NY). I never use Siri though.
I didn't expect people to be offended by something like this though, jeez.
It is on their end. I was getting unusual forecasts yesterday when I asked Siri what the weather was going to be like (I'm in NYC). It was saying it would be 92 degrees and sunny today! It's cloudy and in the 60s. The weather app itself was correct. I guess I was getting the New York, TX results.
I've been experiencing this issue and realized after clicking the little Yahoo icon that Siri is giving me the forecast for Littleton, AL instead of Littleton, CO.
However, I'm pretty sure my life will continue with minimal disruption and it will get straightened out eventually.
I wish an Android phone/OS would get this much scrutiny.
However, I'm pretty sure my life will continue with minimal disruption and it will get straightened out eventually.
I wish an Android phone/OS would get this much scrutiny.
Sure it does just not here. Simple fact is this mistake is a pretty piss poor one and should of never even gotten out of QA. This is just a stupid stupid mistake and screams it was rushed out the door.
I can confirm that even giving her your zipcode directly does NOT work...I give her my manhattan zip code and I still get weather for New York, Texas
She's terrible at sports scores too. Asking her for the "St. Louis Cardinals" score gets me the Stanford Cardinals football scores. I have to ask her for the Cards' opponent's team name, which will work until they play the Giants or Rangers
I had a similar issue and it turned out to be the hardware. Annoying, still, but a new IP5 from the Apple store fixed the problem for me.
I've heard there are two issues. The first one is the user has a hard time connecting to a wifi network. That I've heard is a hardware issue.
The second network issue is slow download speeds of roughly 1-2Mbps on WPA2 protected networks that are actually 10x quicker. I've heard that's a software issues and will be fixed in the next update.