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Siri 'Just Thrilled' About iOS 8, but Sad About Lack of Stage Time at WWDC
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"It's like moving into a bigger, nicer house"...
Perhaps like a bigger, nicer iPhone? Sounds like a hint at the new iPhone.
Perhaps like a bigger, nicer iPhone? Sounds like a hint at the new iPhone.
Perhaps the developers should be spending more time fixing the bugs then adding snarky answers to Siri
Do you think this takes "developers"? There isn't an additional 900 lines of Objective C or something needed to simply add additional responses to key words.
Siri = Garbage!
As long as Siri cannot even tell me the weather for the next night, I think it is utter nonsense.
Me: "Will it rain tonight?"
Siri: "I cannot see any rain for tonight's forecast."
Me: Checking the built-in weather app: 70% rain for 3AM.
Sorry Siri, but my night does not end at midnight. I sleep until the morning. Such banal things are just BS. Same thing as:
"Can you tell me the phone number for Business X?"
"The phone number for Business X is xxx-xxx-xxxx."
"Please call them./Please call that number."
"I can't find "them"/"that number" in your phone book." - oh Siri, you are senile...
As long as Siri cannot even tell me the weather for the next night, I think it is utter nonsense.
Me: "Will it rain tonight?"
Siri: "I cannot see any rain for tonight's forecast."
Me: Checking the built-in weather app: 70% rain for 3AM.
Sorry Siri, but my night does not end at midnight. I sleep until the morning. Such banal things are just BS. Same thing as:
"Can you tell me the phone number for Business X?"
"The phone number for Business X is xxx-xxx-xxxx."
"Please call them./Please call that number."
"I can't find "them"/"that number" in your phone book." - oh Siri, you are senile...
See what happens when you call Siri, Jarvis. Its a dream come true.
I don't have ios 8 and I would really love to see the response could u please please please post it
Yeah because Apple engineers can't multitask.
Actually no they can't. Unless they are simultaneously coding jokes and coding functionality, then the time spent doing the jokes is lost time.
It's rare to have a company poking fun at itself.
This is one of the reasons why I love Apple - Their sense of humor.
This is one of the reasons why I love Apple - Their sense of humor.
Perhaps the developers should be spending more time fixing the bugs then adding snarky answers to Siri
Big time fail on managing software engineers there guy. Whenever I see a software production schedule to south, it is usually the head that stinks first getting to serious or worst, keeping everyone to a micro-manged schedule.
By definition, all software development is a creative process. Attempting to place a rank-and-file production manager into software development is a classic and fatal executive decision.
How do you manage creative people?
First, realize they are, in most cases, smarter, younger (at least in mind) and more playful than yourself. Where your most creative expression is selecting the background and text colors of your spreadsheet and project schedule apps they do that in their sleep via muscle memory.
Second, do not provide answers but direction. It's been often said that managing software engineers is like herding cats. Cats will come and follow you if you have a prize to offer. The cat figures out their own path to you and are not herded along.
Third, be humble. One of the worst things you can do with software development is decide the path and the approach at the beginning of the project. A good engineer is not told how to do a task. Instead they are pointed toward a goal. Many times, the engineer will have an idea that destroys your scheme like a wrecking ball through a stained glass window. Accept it, swallow your pride and get out of the way.
Forth, they are not bricklayers. Software development is not an linear, incremental development process. Expecting a list of goals checked off day-by-day or week-by-week to make others in the group that don't code understand the process is ludicrous. You'll notice development at a roller-coaster rate with a lot of effort one week, a fun free fall the next with a goal achieved after an enjoyable ride.
Five, have fun! Software development is an art and not a monotonous laborious process. So what if they are having a Nerf gun battle when the CEO walks in and Mr. Big Shot get hit in the crossfire. If your top execs are worth anything, they will take it in stride and know they walked in on a "blowing steam" moment. The ah-ha! of a major function achieved cannot be predicted but should be communicated to a group when it happens.
Also, if you are in need of a Alimentary Entimoloextomy, get it before you manage those in some of the most creative and well paid profession in the modern economy.
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So... Siri can make witty remarks, but can rarely answer most questions?
Yay!
Instead of Siri, why not use Watson?
Watson can actually form it's own sentences, and look up knowledge to give you an answer. It also understands natural speech.
Also, Watson can play jeopardy!
Our phones are totally hacked by law enforcement. Eventually, Siri will begin talking to YOU whether you like it or not.
This is all thanks to a helpful, proactive government that wants to make sure you are not a threat to them or their ideology. It goes way beyond tin foil cliches at this point.
This is all thanks to a helpful, proactive government that wants to make sure you are not a threat to them or their ideology. It goes way beyond tin foil cliches at this point.
Wrong. Off the top of my head Google Now: drafts texts, emails, opens email, takes pictures, plays music, sets alarms, sets reminders, sets calendar events, opens websites.
Makes me wonder if you've even used it before posting this.
I love Siri but Google Now blows it out of the water
Siri has the upper hand in device control for now but in general, I get SO much more accurate results with Google Now quieries than I do Siri. Google Now also does better at specific results to where Siri more than likely will just offer up web page results.
Siri has the upper hand in device control for now but in general, I get SO much more accurate results with Google Now quieries than I do Siri. Google Now also does better at specific results to where Siri more than likely will just offer up web page results.
I see the distinction you are making. I will try those things, ie setting an alarm next time I get a chance to play with an Android phone.
Actually it works on ios 7.1.2 also...Works even better when you turn on the UK Male voice!
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Has anyone actually played with the "Hey Siri" functionality yet? I'm wondering if it would work in my Audi. Siri takes over the audio through Bluetooth when I activate it by hand, as if a phone call was coming in, and then I can have her read texts, change the music I'm listing to through streaming, etc. But I still have to press the button to start. If the Hey Siri works well, that'll be true hands free.
