SIRI false advertising

[AndrewR23]

Heres what I don't get. That girl at the end is sitting down and gets a text message saying "New text message from...." and she didn't even say anything before the text message came.


Now no one has helped me with this. The Apple employees didn't even know either.

 

[HazyCloud]

Heres what I don't get. That girl at the end is sitting down and gets a text message saying "New text message from...." and she didn't even say anything before the text message came.


Now no one has helped me with this. The Apple employees didn't even know either.

Where do you see that? I just watched it twice and don't see it.

 

[ZipZap]

More importantly why are many/most of the phones in that commercial larger than a retail 4S.

Look at them way bigger.

 

[Ronnoco]

Where do you see that? I just watched it twice and don't see it.

Seriously....what is he talking about?

 

[HazyCloud]

Seriously....what is he talking about?

That's kinda what I'm thinking. It's got me all confused and stuff.

EDIT* Here's the video the above poster was referencing. Noted part starts around the 1:00 mark.

EDIT2* For those that can't see the vid, a lady gets a text and Siri reads it as soon as she gets it. No prompt from Siri required.

 

[deeddawg]

Heres what I don't get. That girl at the end is sitting down and gets a text message saying "New text message from...." and she didn't even say anything before the text message came. Now no one has helped me with this. The Apple employees didn't even know either.

EDIT2* For those that can't see the vid, a lady gets a text and Siri reads it as soon as she gets it. No prompt from Siri required.

This is from VoiceOver in Accessibility settings, intended for the visually impaired.

Note the woman is reading a Braille book, so that's a hint she's blind. That her eyes are closed when replying is another hint.

 

[HazyCloud]

VoiceOver in Accessibility settings, intended for the visually impaired.

Note the woman is reading a Braille book, so that's a hint she's blind.

This is correct. There's a setting under General>Accessibility>Voice Over that has a speak over for notifications.

EDIT* Just tested it and can confirm this is the setting.

 

[SteveKnobs]

False advertising? Really? You have nothing better to do on a beautiful Friday afternoon than complain/point out that the commercial showing a guy asking about a bow tie may not be completely accurate?? And here I thought that I needed a new hobby.............

 

[wordoflife]

A lot of hate comes through these posts.

Welcome to mac rumors!

 

[ohio.emt]

Welcome to mac rumors!

I thought it was more like welcome to the internet

 

[HazyCloud]

False advertising? Really? You have nothing better to do on a beautiful Friday afternoon than complain/point out that the commercial showing a guy asking about a bow tie may not be completely accurate?? And here I thought that I needed a new hobby.............

Really? You have nothing better to do on a beautiful Friday afternoon than complain about a thread on.....forget about it.

 

[deeddawg]

One of Siri's features is the ability to do a Google search for you. I don't think it's false advertising if that's the result of the question given.

Especially when "How do I tie a bowtie again?" brings up a web search where the second link is "How to tie a perfect Bow Tie"

First web result points to sirilingo.com

 

[gillybean]

I was also disappointed when the Siri commercial had examples like "show me what a Walrus looks like" but when I tried it on my own Siri just replied "would you like to search the web for 'show me what a Walrus looks like?" Not a very smart response..

 

[AndrewR23]

THanks all for answering my question. Not even 5 Apple employees could figure it out. Seriously, a lot of people here without jobs should apply for Apple. Especially the Sacramento one.

 

[xav8tor]

I was also disappointed when the Siri commercial had examples like "show me what a Walrus looks like" but when I tried it on my own Siri just replied "would you like to search the web for 'show me what a Walrus looks like?" Not a very smart response..

Try again, and say it the way the girl said it, you get a picture of a weasel (or walrus since you prefer that). Not a very smart post.

 

[Tinmania]

Try again, and say it the way the girl said it, you get a picture of a weasel (or walrus since you prefer that). Not a very smart post.

I have to wonder how they can be so critical of Siri when they themselves are not properly understanding or remembering the videos with which they are complaining about. Hmmmmm.....



Michael

 

[Ronnoco]

btw, Siri WILL read a text message to you if you are using bluetooth...at least it does in my car and when I wear my Plantronics/Altec Lansing stereo bluetooth headphones...

 

[Demosthenes X]

Try again, and say it the way the girl said it, you get a picture of a weasel (or walrus since you prefer that). Not a very smart post.

Gotta disagree with this one. The point of Siri is supposed to be that you can talk to it naturally, instead of having to use specific commands to get results. A human would interpret "show me what a weasel looks like" and "what does a weasel look like?" in a similar manner, so Siri should be able to, too.

That being said, the technology is still in beta, so we can't be too hard on Siri. It will get there.

 

[Tinmania]

Gotta disagree with this one. The point of Siri is supposed to be that you can talk to it naturally, instead of having to use specific commands to get results. A human would interpret "show me what a weasel looks like" and "what does a weasel look like?" in a similar manner, so Siri should be able to, too.

Siri is able to understand that. In fact she returns more information--and a picture if you scroll down--if said like the former. But both ways work.

And it works with weasel or walrus.

So, yea, that post nit-picking about siri for something that DOES work as advertised was lame.




Michael

 

[DroidRules]

Yes you should file one right away.

/sarcasm

LoL, I see this in a lot of posts.... IF you need to write /sarcasm in your post then you suck at being sarcastic. I know it's tough to pull off good sarcasm in print but ffs, do better so you don't have to tell every one you're being sarcastic.

OP you really need a hobby if this is how you spend your free time. I think siri works great and am happy to have it.

 

[vitzr]

Apple didn't invent everything.

They didn't ?

Are you sure ?

Wow, so much for that myth

 

[macingman]

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If I ask Siri "how do you tie a tie?", I am given information on a titanium company. If I ask "how do you tie a bow tie?", it asks if I want to do a web search and after responding "yes", it brings up multiple sites on how to tie a bow tie. It probably means you need to be more specific as in "how do you tie a windsor knot?"

You just illustrated the OP's huge fail: the ad did not show someone asking how to tie a "tie." It showed someone asking how to tie a bow tie.

Good luck to the OP on any "false advertising" claims lol.



Michael

And Siri can't answer the question when you say bow tie either. It is false advertising.

 

[monaarts]

Did it show Siri walking him through the process or anything? When I ask Siri "How do I tie a bow tie" it asks me if it should search google. ;-)


- Joe

 

[ijohnbro]

Did it show Siri walking him through the process or anything? When I ask Siri "How do I tie a bow tie" it asks me if it should search google. ;-)


- Joe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0g31zufr0

 

[monaarts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0g31zufr0

lol I don't need to know how to tie a bow tie... I know how to already. Plus, bow ties are kinda ugly. HAHA