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Siri doesn't work as advertised

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tekno

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There's an ad on at the moment showing Siri display an email of a recipe from Mum and a meeting at 12 Brook Street with an estate agent.

I created an event called "Meet estate agent" location: 12 Brook Street. When I ask Siri, as per the ad, "Where am I meeting the estate agent?", Siri answers:

"I don't see any meetings about estate agent".

Have I got something terribly wrong or are Apple mis-selling Siri?
 
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It's beta for a reason.
 
Torresangel88 said:
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It's beta for a reason.
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I don't think they'd be able to advertise features that dont exist - beta or otherwise. Furthermore, nowhere on the ad does it explain the feature is in beta.

The ad is in England.
 
1. Did mum email me that recipe?

It can't search that content. Saying "that recipe" will probably confuse it. Just say, "Do I have new email?"

2. Tell me Paris will be nice this weekend.

Response: Sorry, I can't check the weather out to this Sunday. Here's how the next 5 days look for Paris, France.

3. What's futurism?

Response: How about a web search for what's futurism?

tekno said:
There's an ad on at the moment showing Siri display an email of a recipe from Mum and a meeting at 12 Brook Street with an estate agent.

I created an event called "Meet estate agent" location: 12 Brook Street. When I ask Siri, as per the ad, "Where am I meeting the estate agent?", Siri answers:

"I don't see any meetings about estate agent".

Have I got something terribly wrong or are Apple mis-selling Siri?
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Okay, if you go into Calendar, then put in Title: meet estate agent and Location: the whole address, if you ask it, it will tell you.
 
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Torresangel88 said:
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It's beta for a reason.
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It's "beta" because they are still adding languages. The functions that are there, should "just work"...isn't that what makes Apple products so great? Love how when something doesn't work, there are excuses.
 
aztooh said:
It's "beta" because they are still adding languages. The functions that are there, should "just work"...isn't that what makes Apple products so great? Love how when something doesn't work, there are excuses.
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That's what I always say. People seem to have trouble grasping that concept though.
 
How long is it going to be in beta though, years? That's what some have suggested.
 
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tekno said:
I don't think they'd be able to advertise features that dont exist - beta or otherwise. Furthermore, nowhere on the ad does it explain the feature is in beta.

The ad is in England.
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You might need to say it in a British accent
 
RocketRed said:
Does that matter? It's on youtube.
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Of course it matters. Not all siri features are available in all countries. You'll be ok... take a deep breath and relax. If you don't like your 4s then sell it and buy another device. Don't like siri, don't use it.

My new favorite thing is #whitepeoplesproblems

Ciri said:
Okay, if you go into Calendar, then put in Title: meet estate agent and Location: the whole address, if you ask it, it will tell you.
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So what you're saying is you have to be smarter than siri?

tekno said:
Tried it again this morning and it's now working for me too. Maybe it was a temporary server glitch.
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So you were'nt doing it correctly and it didn't work. NOW you took ciri's advice and it works! Amazing!
 
That little disclaimer on the advert which says "sequences shortened" means they could be doing any number of things that aren't shown to make it respond like it does.

:(
 
Another thing to try would be to add "estate agent" to one of your contacts...either as a note, nickname, or job title.
 
ctbear said:
That's what I always say. People seem to have trouble grasping that concept though.
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So many homers.

I'll openly admit, my 4S "just works" better than the last 2 phones I used that weren't iPhones (Moto Atrix, BB Storm), but just marginally. It has plenty of issues with freezing, lagging and apps crashing. Not to mention quirks that I hate i.e. why does the app store kick me out to the homepage of the app I just updated, when I have several other apps to update? Or when I buy an app, maybe I want to keep shopping? Really annoying. And the notification system still sucks.

iOS 5.x is generally smooth and useful, but it's far from perfect.
 
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