Or you could just open the app, type the address, and tap navigate. Probably easier than the 9 steps you describe.
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Survey Finds Early Adopters of iPhone X Very Satisfied With All Features Except Siri
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Or you could just open the app, type the address, and tap navigate. Probably easier than the 9 steps you describe.
When I'm using Siri for dictation, I'm not usually in a position to watch the screen or proofread the message so I always asked Siri to read back my message before sending it. Maybe I'm the only one, but I appreciated the change to automatically read a message back before sending. Not sure why you have to look at the screen to do this. Siri on my phone reads the message and asks me to confirm sending it. I can do it all by voice command.
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Huh, works perfectly for me.
Siri is the vocal equivalent to the Newton's handwriting recognition.
You get 3 words to describe Siri to users, and you choose "scalability" as one of them?
Noone cares about scalability except back-end engineers. You already had "performance," which covers the end-user's experience.
It's just a sign of how much someone doesn't understand how people interact with their phones.
When Siri came out I was in awe. The future had arrived! Unfortunately, the future seems to be as dumb as the present.
And yes, Siri is way behind, but it's not the only case where this is true. I can't remember (on a scale of like 5 years or so) a single time when the badge for unread emails was correct on the Mail app. There's always a number on it, and it is *always* wrong. How is this acceptable? Applications had this right 20 years ago, now it's 2018 and Apple has a device in everyone's pocket that can't correctly tell them how many unread emails they have. It's disgraceful. Which, yes, seems like an overly dramatic word in this context, but it fits.
Noone cares about scalability except back-end engineers. You already had "performance," which covers the end-user's experience.
It's just a sign of how much someone doesn't understand how people interact with their phones.
When Siri came out I was in awe. The future had arrived! Unfortunately, the future seems to be as dumb as the present.
And yes, Siri is way behind, but it's not the only case where this is true. I can't remember (on a scale of like 5 years or so) a single time when the badge for unread emails was correct on the Mail app. There's always a number on it, and it is *always* wrong. How is this acceptable? Applications had this right 20 years ago, now it's 2018 and Apple has a device in everyone's pocket that can't correctly tell them how many unread emails they have. It's disgraceful. Which, yes, seems like an overly dramatic word in this context, but it fits.
The two examples you give there are actually very good.
At least iOS gives you the option to do something about it, though.
Like you say, I have selected Duck Duck Go as my default search and I have never enabled Facebook integration on any of the iPhones I have owned.
In fact I rarely use Facebook only posting maybe 20 times a year (deliberately for privacy reasons) and primarily use it to keep up with friends who have moved all across the globe by reading their much greater number of posts.
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Why can't Apple get Siri right?
It boggles my mind.
Two nights ago "Hey Siri.... Turn off the guest room lamp." Siri shuts off the Guest bathroom lamp (with someone in the guest bathroom). Awesome. Should I have to name the rooms different? I shouldn't, but I will to accommodate Siri.
It boggles my mind.
Two nights ago "Hey Siri.... Turn off the guest room lamp." Siri shuts off the Guest bathroom lamp (with someone in the guest bathroom). Awesome. Should I have to name the rooms different? I shouldn't, but I will to accommodate Siri.
The funny thing is when Siri was still standalone app in the App Store, it was way ahead of its time and capable of doing exactly that - albeit probably limited to certain scenarios.
I remember seeing a marketing video of Siri in action (which of course Apple removed from YouTube after their takeover) where the user relayed an instruction something like this;
Siri book 2 tickets for the 10PM showing of District Nine at my local cinema and reserve a table for 7:30PM at the highest rated nearby Romantic Italian restaurant.
Siri being location aware booked the movie tickets and then searched reviews for the word Romantic within the nearest high rated Italian restaurants. It selected the one that best met the criteria and reserved the table.
It then vocally summarised its actions back to the user. Impressive stuff.
It’s certainly not that clever these days, much work to be done.
If I were leading the department responsible for Siri, I would have the graph from the survey printed and posted everywhere as I’d be embarrassed that my product was the one glaringly obvious failure according to the iPhone X customers.
Apple needs to dump Siri and not necessarily start from scratch, but acquire other companies that do it better and replace the Siri team with them -- Siri sucks, and the Siri team has proven they don't have what it takes to make Siri into something great. This is truly a serious detriment to the Apple ecosystem if they want to continue to be on top. Dump Siri now. Re-brand with a much better assistant from a totally different team. Siri is a failure, and Apple needs to acknowledge this.
I don't see what's so great about Alexa. My FireTV has it and it can't answer even the most BASIC questions that you could find yourself on the web in a few seconds. It's annoying as hell. It's only good to play a song or something. Worthless is the word I would use. How Siri could POSSIBLY any worse than THAT I just don't know. People must use it for things I'd never imagine using it for or something.
That's actually pretty funny......:0)). But to answer your question, "Yes", you do have to name each room differently. I have a separate name for every single room in the house and groupings within rooms, e.g., Master bedroom, Master bathroom; Kitchen table, kitchen ceiling, kitchen island, kitchen desk; Outside patio, outside garage. The simpler the better in order to facilitate memory for verbal requests.
I want two things:
1) For Siri to be marginally useful at finding the phone number for a restaurant or directions somewhere
2) For Apple's search function to be similarly useful. In other words, swipe down and type in whatever I want, and get legitimate results.
These are things that Google does with absolute ease and accuracy, and Apple is quite seriously years behind in these very simple, practical areas.
1) For Siri to be marginally useful at finding the phone number for a restaurant or directions somewhere
2) For Apple's search function to be similarly useful. In other words, swipe down and type in whatever I want, and get legitimate results.
These are things that Google does with absolute ease and accuracy, and Apple is quite seriously years behind in these very simple, practical areas.
I just hope when they said "we are focusing on fixing things and will not have a bunch of new features" in the next update that was code speak for "we are going to address all the things that are wrong with Siri."
Iris, lol. They’ve to kill it first. Knowing Apple, they won’t admit it’s bad or they were wrong. It really annoys me that when I ask Siri to set the timer it repeats with some kind of joke. It’s not even funny nor professional.
Instead Apple should put more energy in useful things like let me set more then one timer so I can boil eggs and potato’s.
So true. The jokes make me want to strangle a virtual assistant.
"You already have a timer set, would you like to keep or replace it?"
WHY CAN'T I HAVE TWO OR MORE?!?!?!?!?!
I use Siri with Apple Car Play quite a bit. I didn't have many problems with the old voice, but the new voice does not annunciate very well. It is especially noticeable when dictating a message to be sent.
Agree with everything you’ve said except the last sentence. It was close to a super cycle it’s just that a significant number of those that previously would’ve purchased the flagship iPhone (X in this case) decided it didn’t represent value and bought a different model from the range instead.
That’s when Apple and their Market observers decided they’d better switch the conversation from unit sales to profitability.
Totally agree.
You missed - using your iPhone in landscape mode... thats a passcode!
I get asked a lot by work colleagues if they should get the 8 or the X and I point them to the 8 every time.
But... but... they only sold 60% of sales targets & as a result had to wind down production after only being on the market 4 months. Plus they had to reduce further orders for OLED screens from Samsung. By the time 2018 models arrive the iPhone X will have sold less units that the iPhone 6, 6s & 7 of both varieties. And the hot rumor is Apple is bringing out a literal cheaper LCD knockoff of the X to try to boost sales. BTW barely 15% brought the X outright, 85% of X's sold have been contract or credit, that's a lot of desperate Fomo's.
Siri, unfortunately is laughable for the most part. I'd never abandon Apple because of Siri, but I do wish it could be remedied soon.
Occasionally pop into SiriFail to see if Siri has made any progress.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SiriFail/
Nope... First thing I see.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SiriFail/comments/8ef2m9/siri_vs_google_assistant_app_both_running_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SiriFail/
Nope... First thing I see.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SiriFail/comments/8ef2m9/siri_vs_google_assistant_app_both_running_on/