Siri Gains Info About Tennis and Golf Tournaments Ahead of Australian Open

[rmcq]

I doubted this and then... well, I’ll just let Siri speak for herself...

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A few points:

1. I was talking about a few weeks ago when Australia was pantsing England in the Ashes in Perth
2. I can’t remember the EXACT wording
3. I expect Siri to be regionally aware, but I’m actually not sure it really is.
4. Siri is not female. You can choose the gender of voice on multiple countries. “IT” is the only suitable pronoun!

So much for natural language...

 

[hummus]

As a tennis fan this is welcome news, but I can't help but think this shows how far behind Apple is as compared to Google with this kind of thing. Google has shown nicely formatted tennis results for a long time now.

 

[SoulCloud]

Such a huge shame that Siri was in the scene first and ahead of Google, Amazon, or Microsoft by miles. Mac’s dictation was looking promising compared to others. Alexa wasn’t there. Google was just trying to solve dictation. And Microsoft was busy trying to stop iPads. Forget all of these giants though, even Samsung’s Bixby will probably be able to deliver some kind of better experience at some point. As a person who thinks ambient computing will be the next chapter of smartphones or PCs, it’s just sad to see Apple in this state.

 

[Chaka Jon]

A day late, a dollar short. Apple has missed the boat.

Now, if Alexa would work with CarPlay...

 

[JRobinsonJr]

Apple can’t just keep adding these skills one by one. Siri needs to have a better search engine and knowledge base for things in general.

IMHO, you’ve hit it spot on. Apple has traditionally trickled out new features, and this worked 10 years ago when the pace of innovation was slower. Today? Not so much. Apples very business model is threatening to be their greatest roadblock. Time to step up the pace or risk loosing market share.

 

[tennisproha]

Finally! Does Apple not realize there are more sports than just baseball, football, and basketball ball. The fan base for tennis alone is bigger than all three of those combined.

 

[mikeb71]

Siri is so disappointing these days. I've so used to Alexa and Google now...

I have to agree with this. Virtually everything I use is Apple based, however, I've recently dipped my toes into the Alexa world and it makes Siri seem quite embarrassing. The voice is more natural, you can stop her mid-flow with your voice, and (due to Apple's stricter rules re 3rd party accessories) you can control more i.e. Nest, Hive etc without needing HomeKit. If I could get Spotify or Amazon Music on my Apple TV I'd be very tempted to jump ship.

 

[PG(Austin)]

Apple needs to make Siri better ALL the time, not just when some special sporting event comes along. Right now Siri is worthless in my opinion. I never get a good answer from it but as soon as I go to Google Assistant, bam...there it is.

 

[sterumbelow]

Still no Formula 1 support...

 

[mlody]

At yet Siri is numb when asking F1 related questions. The most premier racing sport in the world and NOTHING. Who the f... decides on this at Apple???

 

[TMRJIJ]

At this point I think Apple is just trolling us. Of all the things they can add or cause to be work better and we get Tennis?

Don’t hate on Tennis. Some of those players are straight savage.

 

[0008652]

It probably is obvious to Apple internally that at some point they will have to build a search engine that can identify best answers in the same way Google does. They don’t need to have a better search engine than Google - they just need one so it can address so many more pieces of knowledge. The current pace is too slow.
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Golf?

Either that or buy one like DuckDuckGo and maybe Wolfram Alpha

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Funny how it's 2017 and this even warrants an article. Alexa is chuckling.

I do use Siri with Homekit. Works great there. But I should be able to add skills like play a 3rd party radio app without having to enter a password.

 

[lunarworks]

Still no Formula 1 support...

But doesn't the same guy win every time?

 

[PeLaNo]

Apple can’t just keep adding these skills one by one. Siri needs to have a better search engine and knowledge base for things in general.

I wonder that if they actually ever try to do that. Cause it seems like they just use information from 3rd party i.e. “Siri knowledge” is from Wikipedia.
They should have done something like what Google use their bot to search around internet for knowledge IMO.
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It probably is obvious to Apple internally that at some point they will have to build a search engine that can identify best answers in the same way Google does. They don’t need to have a better search engine than Google - they just need one so it can address so many more pieces of knowledge. The current pace is too slow.
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Golf?

I thought the same think.
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Anyone else dreaming of opening WWDC or the next major event with a line like ’Good morning! We have a special guest with us today!’

-Good morning Tim (voice of Siri talks)
I'm happy to be here and will keep up with your presentation and jump in on occasion.

And then they present an educated and grown up Siri with actual understanding, intelligence and proactive skillset.


This trickle of some features working sometimes in some countries is just ridiculous.

If Apple can do that they can have an entire WWDC dedicated to boast about how much Siri is getting better.

 

[MhzDoesMatter]

But, no one outside of professional MacRumors commenters actually thinks Apple has 3 guys working on Siri one sporting event at a time though, right? I think it's reasonable to assume Siri's glacial development pace is by design (or design flaw.) I do think Apple is working on "deeper" rather that broader and that their hope is to release a leapfrog in Voice AI soon.

I'm not sure that was the best strategy considering how willing to diversify their tech consumers have become. But Apple's gonna Apple.

 

[theheadguy]

A few points:
1. I was talking about a few weeks ago when Australia was pantsing England in the Ashes in Perth
2. I can’t remember the EXACT wording
3. I expect Siri to be regionally aware, but I’m actually not sure it really is.
4. Siri is not female. You can choose the gender of voice on multiple countries. “IT” is the only suitable pronoun!
So much for natural language...

Are you arguing with Siri? She spoke for herself. Here's a helpful link for you, though.

 

[Rogifan]

So just to be clear this was “noted by 9to5Mac”, it didn’t come from an Apple press release or Apple PR. I could understand people mocking it if Apple made a big deal out of it but they didn’t even mention it. It’s only news because someone stumbled across it.

 

[SoulCloud]

At yet Siri is numb when asking F1 related questions. The most premier racing sport in the world and NOTHING. Who the f... decides on this at Apple???

Based on the data, I assume it’s the team members who initiate actions. Fun fact is that Eddy The Great used to be the boss-nanny of Siri division until recently and he’s also been a Ferrari board member for quite sometime. He’s an F1 fan too. He even was in Monza this year. So no luck for F1. If fake Hawaiian racer didn’t bother with it, I don’t think the keynote comedian ever will.