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Siri on HomePod Seems to Have Forgotten How to Give the Time
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I don’t even care that she cannot do complex things. The problem is she cannot even do the simple things.
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...or replace the Home Pods with other smart (or dumb) speakers. For smart, I chose Sonos instead which is "walled garden agnostic when it comes to assistants and music services. Siri works through any Apple device, Airplay 2 works, Apple Music is one of over a hundred available music services, HomeKit works, etc.
For main room speakers, go high quality-but-dumb and let the brains be the Receiver that powers them. That way in a few years when HPs are made obsolete and/or vintaged by the smarts within and/or corp decisions to want you to pay up again, any dumb speaker setup is mostly immune to such nonsense. At worst, you replace the Receiver maybe once a decade... and enjoy the (SAME) best speakers in the home for 20 or 30 years.
I purchased my "BEST" speakers approx. 10 years ago and they sound as good today as they did when new. Does even the fanniest fan want to try to argue that HPs purchased today will still be supported 10 years from now? The smarts are basically iPhone smarts... and nothing with those kinds of guts maintains support for very long. See AppleTVs with a relatively simple job to do that is mostly unchanged over long periods of time (just like HPs) made obsolete because their smarts are abandoned//vintaged to sell new models.
This is no outright attack on Apple Inc or HPs- just a friendly reminder that there is PLENTY of fish in this sea and many great ways to get better benefits and whatever kind of speaker setups one wants instead of only considering mono vs. stereo and walled garden limitations from a single source.
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Kudos Apple.
No wonder you're trying to hop into bed with Google.
Will the liason will avert your next Applecar,erm, AI debacle?
Perhaps your leader is wise to steer you over to services provider roles.
Regards.
Disappointed.
Oh, and PS.
I am divesting my home of your Homepods in anticipation of the Alphabet Soup.
No wonder you're trying to hop into bed with Google.
Will the liason will avert your next Applecar,erm, AI debacle?
Perhaps your leader is wise to steer you over to services provider roles.
Regards.
Disappointed.
Oh, and PS.
I am divesting my home of your Homepods in anticipation of the Alphabet Soup.
Apple should just relay a message to every single device that Siri has died while snowboarding in Italy or some **** and move on at this point. Just start from scratch again
I just asked Siri on my original large HomePods and got the correct time. No problem in California. Maybe because I’m pretty close to Cupertino? 
Well.. it might be due to Siri having to reach out to a time server somewhere to ensure the correct time?
I’m very happy for you that Siri worked when it most counted. Unfortunately that is not always the case for lesser things, but I’m glad she saved your home.
Siri is back to asking for contact information for my wife. After it suddenly breaking on its own for about a year, it fixed itself. Worked great for about 3 months, and now back to not being able to make a call. Music recommendations and ”smart playlists“ are a joke. Sorry, Siri “All” the punk bank is not the same as “All” the hip hop artist(?). It’s May, you can cut out the Christmas music.
Siri is the Simple Jack of AI.
I tell Siri to “change my wake-up alarm” to something else and it responds there is no alarm called that. I once figured out ”the top secret“ name that alarm is, but I’ve since forgotten it. I have to go through the app and manually do it. Only then do I feel confident the actual alarm was changed.
You can ask it to show your alarms that are "on" and that works!
HomePod still doesn't execute on-device requests? I thought we were past that. Is this specific to certain generations? A "what time is it?" request should indeed be handled locally, even without an internet connection. Bizarro.
Rest assured... a brighter future is coming!
Siri, we still love you.
Rest assured... a brighter future is coming!
Siri, we still love you.
Holy Smokes!
A sporadic bug cropped up on the Siri server. And everybody goes third-order with a serious case of the shakes, like it's the end of the world. A real end times event for some.
A sporadic bug cropped up on the Siri server. And everybody goes third-order with a serious case of the shakes, like it's the end of the world. A real end times event for some.
Well, let's see... you "tell Siri" ... that could be where things are going wrong? She's not your personal slave. Treat her with respect by asking, not telling, and maybe she'll respond more positively?
"Hey Siri, would you mind kindly changing my wake-up alarm?..., when you have time."
It's just reinforcement and ammunition for the folks that passionately dislike Siri and/or Apple.
I hope you are right. That is the exact thing I used to tell myself when Siri would act like a one year old. It’s because they’re working on it, I would say to myself. it was never proven to be the case, though.
Yes... Sadly, it's a tradition here going back 20 years. It's the only way some people can feel good inside.
I usually cringe when people use 'embarrasing for...' as a way of criticising something, but on this occasion I think it's totally apt.
I have been laughing at this for 10 minutes.