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Steve Jobs Contacted Siri Just Three Weeks After App's Initial Launch, Disliked the Name
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Siri is very useful all the time!! Driving and wanna hear a message just ask!! Setting timers when cooking and hands tied up just ask.
Setting alarms without having to unlock,find clock app, open it,choose alarm,set the alarm to the time you want, exit app.
Instead ask Siri and for me she understands what I'm trying to say 90% of the time!!
Siri is very useful all the time!! Driving and wanna hear a message just ask!! Setting timers when cooking and hands tied up just ask.
Setting alarms without having to unlock,find clock app, open it,choose alarm,set the alarm to the time you want, exit app.
Instead ask Siri and for me she understands what I'm trying to say 90% of the time!!
kaleb...have you heard of iAds? You know that Apple has an ad-deployment / ad-selling mechanism in iOS, right?
the name i dont mind...
what i mind is siri going off in "silent mode" during class..
WTF is wrong with that.. why cant siri be silenced!?
what i mind is siri going off in "silent mode" during class..
WTF is wrong with that.. why cant siri be silenced!?
That doesn't mean they're an ad company. You know Apple doesn't sell ads to the users from iAds right? Ever seen ads in your free software developed from Apple?
Correct.
I wonder where they get all this personal data for marketting....
http://advertising.apple.com/brands/
Correct.
I wonder where they get all this personal data for marketting....
http://advertising.apple.com/brands/
You do realize Apple doesn't actually sell ads right? iAds is a platform for developers to sell ads. Not Apple. They make money from the money devs make from their ads that they serve to users.
Post a screenshot of these "ads" you got served by Apple.
Ok, so I guess I 'don't use' the following apps:
Calculator (I don't usually need it more than once a week or so)
Contacts (I've got everybody I need in it right now, so I don't use it much)
Camera (I don't take pictures with my phone every day)
Photos (I don't browse the pictures on my phone more than once every few weeks)
Phone (This is closer, but I know there's days, weeks even, that I haven't used it.)
If 'using' something requires 'using' it consistently and functionally daily over an extended period of time, then nobody can 'use' anything because they can't have 'used' it at all until they've already 'used' it *consistently and functionally over an extended period of time*.
Personally, I use Siri most often to add things to my grocery list, or set reminders. I don't need to do that every day, so I don't need to use Siri every day. If using a tool means you have to use it every day, then I know professional *carpenters* who 'don't use' a hammer.
And who do you think Apple sells your personal information gathered from Siri?
...subsidiaries’ and agents’ ...
Don't try to act like Apple keeps all your personal info to themselves.
They make money with it by selling it.
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iphone4s.pdf.
It's the quirky nature of the name that makes it work. Personally, I like the name. The vibe has personality, it's relatable only to itself, and is easy to remember. Seems to be moving quickly toward the ubiquitous end of the scale.
The difference here is that another application isn't being promoted to already do the same exact thing. A better example would be another camera app that offers the same exact functionality, except you say "take a picture" instead of just clicking the button. The Siri app is generally worthless outside of a small population. I'm not going to stand in line waiting for a coffee, talking to my phone. Scheduling appointments with everyone listening in. I'll click on the date in an email and add to my calendar like I normally do.
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Which proves to me unequivocally that the story about the naming of Siri is total BS.
On the contrary, just like Google, Apple uses what it knows about you to sell iAd placements.
Apple markets the anonymous use of our demographics, music, video and app tastes, and location to sell targeted ad placements.
If anything, Apple probably has even more useful personal info to mine than Google does, because of iTunes.
Apple is the one who sells iAd placement to companies. They originally required a minimum 1 million dollar campaign. Over time, due to a lack of demand and ad return, that has now dropped to a $100,000 minimum. They charge advertisers abour $10 per thousand views (they used to also charge $2 per click, but that also just got dropped).
When an app requests an ad to display, Apple's iAd server uses its information about the user to pick a supplied ad that makes sense (and IIRC they store which ad they served you for about a month so they won't repeat it right away).
Out of the ad money that Apple receives, they now kick back 70% (used to be 60%) to the developer who hosts the ad.
In other words, every time an app displays an ad from Apple's iAd server, Apple gets about 1 cent ($0.01) from the advertiser... out of which Apple kicks back 0.7 cents ($0.007) to the host app developer.
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Using it consistently and functionally daily over an extended period of time.
Tony
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Nope - I'm saying that inputing something via VOICE that has to be INTERPRETED and acted upon by something independent of your own mind is not efficient. I'm not talking about voice dictation because that's not was Siri is supposed to be. It has nothing to do with other electronics. Your pen and paper analogy is totally irrelevant.
Tony
Clearly, the fact that others are using it frequently does not cancel out that Siri is a toy, for you. What you fail to see is that it is not an issue of advantage over mechanical input. It is an issue of advantage over mechanical input when the latter is impractical, say, while driving or walking (which speaks to the nature of a mobile device. It's not supposed to be used for everything. And the app easily exceeds the "toy" factor when being able to use it for something important. I think you need to look in the dictionary for the definition of the word "toy", because it does not apply to Siri in an absolute sense as your posts have implied.
Siri means 'ass' in Japanese so you can see where he's coming from... Absolute trademark Steve Jobs
Actually it's 'shiri'. Most japanese can't pronounce 'see-ree' naturally and will fall back to 'shiri', but that's hardly Apple's fault.
Siri means 'ass' in Japanese so you can see where he's coming from... Absolute trademark Steve Jobs
So you could use it in a sentence like this
"Kim Kardashian has a nice Siri"?
EDIT: posted right after the shiri vs. siri correction!
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Prior to Siri, I rarely used tasks or reminders. With the combination of geofencing and Siri, I now use them daily. And the workflow of adding new ones is much quicker with Siri compared to interacting with the app directly.
Steps with Siri:
1. Remove phone from pocket
2. Press and hold button
3. "Remind me about blah when I get home"
4. "Confirm" after a short delay
Compare to:
1. Remove phone from pocket
2. Press button
3. Enter PIN
4. Locate app (may be on a different page, or I need to close the previous app first)
5. Tap plus
6. Type in reminder
7. Tap reminder
8. Tap Remind me...
9. Tap at a location
10. Tap location field
11. Tap home
12. Tap remind me back button
13. Tap When I arrive
14. Tap done (for the geofence)
15. Tap done (for the reminder)
How is the second workflow quicker or better then the Siri one?
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