Siri Offers Humorous Responses to Questions About Hit Game Pokémon Go

[Stella]

And to say Apple is shifting away from the professional market could only come from someone who just emerged from a 20 year coma to find that Apple created things like the one of the most successful consumer products in the world, having sold a billion iPhones, totally dominated music sales world wide, etc.

In case you've not noticed, Apple have dropped a lot of their professional products. Sure, they are partnering with IBM and others for more iOS business presence, but that is one step forward, many steps back over all.

Apple is largely focused on consumer, not business. Apple's consumer focus far outweighs their business / Pro efforts.

 

[croco_dile]

Before anyone asks, yes, it is a slow day!

That feels like everyday!

Macrumors should be changed to Macgossip

 

[MH01]

Meanwhile:

WTF Apple, srs? Fail.

This is TOTAL ***** . Just tried it on my android, not only does it work out where you live, telling you, what your country metal tally is, it also tells you who is leading the medal tally, and it displays the medal tally table.

Siri it total crap. A reason I stopped using it a long long time ago.

 

[0098386]

This is what they spend their time programming? Seriously?

I can imagine their meetings:

Hey guys, you know what's a great idea? There's this pokemon phenomenon going on, we should capitalize on it!

Okay, cool, let's program a bunch of canned responses into Siri!

Cool! Okay, Johnson get on it, should be done in like 30 minutes right?
okay.

Now what? Fix Siri? Nah, meeting adjourned!

I agree, hopefully one day Apple will hire people so they have more than 1 person working there. With all their profits you'd think they'd have thousands of employees!

 

[Tech198]

If this is a reason just to use Siri...... well.. ok....

never trust an assistant with a sense of humor...

 

[EEMAN13]

Does anyone else not find these responses humorous?

 

[wingmanmac]

Each apple employer working on humorous siri responses is one more NOT working on a new mac pro! Thats the problem..

 

[truthertech]

In case you've not noticed, Apple have dropped a lot of their professional products. Sure, they are partnering with IBM and others for more iOS business presence, but that is one step forward, many steps back over all.

Apple is largely focused on consumer, not business. Apple's consumer focus far outweighs their business / Pro efforts.

I don't think you read what I wrote because that's exactly my point. Apple was never a business focused company. That market was ceded to MFST decades ago and Apple has always been a consumer focused company. For someone to say they are shifting away from business could only come from someone who has zero understanding of their history and somehow doesn't realize that Apple has these "little" product lines such as iPhone, iPad, iTunes, App Store, iMac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, etc.
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You say "that's the point", yet seemed to have entirely missed my point.

It's not really about what they are actually doing, it's about what people perceive them to be doing. Although we all have our own biases what can greatly affect how we view the world, Apple are still the ones who control what they produce, which in turn affects how their products and the company itself is perceived. When the Mac line has languished without a refresh for so long, and Siri is in dire need of improvements beyond witty repartee, they would do well to manage their output more wisely.

It's more than just the products themselves which drive sales, it is also to a large extent brand reputation. Steve Jobs was right to get mad when certain product "failures" tarnished Apple's name. That is the first thing you should protect.

It's also not necessarily my opinion, nor is it fact they Apple is, or intends to, shift away from the professional market. My point is, things like Siri's "humour" don't exactly help with that perception.

You are ascribing your reaction to a single trivial decision to a mass audience. You must not be aware that Siri programmers have done this many times for years. It's part of Siri's "personality" to have a sense of humor. It's actually part of the branding of Siri that has been going on for years! 99.99% of people couldn't care less about it, or enjoy it, or are unaware of this trivial Pokemon add. The same way they react to Google's occasionally injects some humor into the Google search bar.

In the real world, outside of these tech sites, consumer perceptions, which is what ultimately matters, are formed by many other things. The infinitesimally small number of folks announcing that they will flee the Apple platform over what Apple does with the 3.5 jack, don't represent the masses' perception of Apple. This is why, despite whatever we read, pro or con, on MR, nearly 70 million people worldwide will decide to purchase the next iPhone by the end of the Christmas season, and close to 200 million earth inhabitants will perceive it to be worthy of buying in the next year.

 

[Stella]

I don't think you read what I wrote because that's exactly my point. Apple was never a business focused company
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Then sorry, I misinterpreted your comment.

Re-reading it again, I understand what you are saying.

 

[truthertech]

Then sorry, I misinterpreted your comment.

Re-reading it again, I understand what you are saying.

No worries Stella
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Each apple employer working on humorous siri responses is one more NOT working on a new mac pro! Thats the problem..

Aside from the few minutes it took for the Siri team member to do this, which is something they do regularly and have done for years, ala Google modifying the search bar for a holiday, special event, etc., you may not realize that all of Apple's engineers aren't in one giant pool. And engineers don't all have the same talent, e.g., software coders on the Siri team aren't likely to be the same ones designing new hardware. And most importantly, as Steve Jobs pointed out, if only it were as simple as writing a check, "then Microsoft would produce great hardware."

 

[Zedcars]

I don't think you read what I wrote because that's exactly my point. Apple was never a business focused company. That market was ceded to MFST decades ago and Apple has always been a consumer focused company. For someone to say they are shifting away from business could only come from someone who has zero understanding of their history and somehow doesn't realize that Apple has these "little" product lines such as iPhone, iPad, iTunes, App Store, iMac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, etc.
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You are ascribing your reaction to a single trivial decision to a mass audience. You must not be aware that Siri programmers have done this many times for years. It's part of Siri's "personality" to have a sense of humor. It's actually part of the branding of Siri that has been going on for years! 99.99% of people couldn't care less about it, or enjoy it, or are unaware of this trivial Pokemon add. The same way they react to Google's occasionally injects some humor into the Google search bar.

In the real world, outside of these tech sites, consumer perceptions, which is what ultimately matters, are formed by many other things. The infinitesimally small number of folks announcing that they will flee the Apple platform over what Apple does with the 3.5 jack, don't represent the masses' perception of Apple. This is why, despite whatever we read, pro or con, on MR, nearly 70 million people worldwide will decide to purchase the next iPhone by the end of the Christmas season, and close to 200 million earth inhabitants will perceive it to be worthy of buying in the next year.

Hmmm...you seemed to have sprinkled a fair bit of prophesy into your post. What are your projected sales numbers based on? How did you estimate your "infinitesimally small" number of people bothered by the lack of headphone jack?

Yes, I'm aware of Siri's history of attempts at humour. I think that's great to inject some wit into her responses. I am just concerned that will all it will be known for. At the end of the day, its primary function to be useful must be served over and above anything else. Hopefully iOS 10 will see them up its game...

http://www.macworld.com/article/3106088/ios/sirious-mistakes.html

 

[C DM]

Each apple employer working on humorous siri responses is one more NOT working on a new mac pro! Thats the problem..

Somehow it seems that the cross-section of those who would be working on Siri's responses and those who would be working on Mac Pro (or something similar) is likely around zero.

 

[wingmanmac]

Somehow it seems that the cross-section of those who would be working on Siri's responses and those who would be working on Mac Pro (or something similar) is likely around zero.

of course.. its just a sarcastic way to say that many people think apple is focusing on "wrong" things. To be more sarcastic, I wish Apple would reassign the funnypeople making siri jokes programming to make siri useful for more than making sushi lunch appointment in San Francisco. Reading the forum here suggest that siri do not work well for most tasks it should be working for.
I, as a proffesional content provider (music) do not like the direction I see Apple is going.

 

[C DM]

of course.. its just a sarcastic way to say that many people think apple is focusing on "wrong" things. To be more sarcastic, I wish Apple would reassign the funnypeople making siri jokes programming to make siri useful for more than making sushi lunch appointment in San Francisco. Reading the forum here suggest that siri do not work well for most tasks it should be working for.
I, as a proffesional content provider (music) do not like the direction I see Apple is going.

Truthfully speaking reading the forum or others like it it would seem that most iPhones or really anything aren't working well and/or come damaged and/or have something else bad going on with them. It's kind of the nature of places like this.