Today Marks the 10th Anniversary of Apple Introducing the iPhone 4S With Siri

Like most of you, the only goddamned use I have for Siri is setting timers for cooking. I occasionally use it to turn on the flashlight or go to an app. Most questions just throw search engine results, and most searches are garbage. Siri can barely do anything.
 
Even at 10, Siri doesn’t even know how old she is: Siri, how old are you?

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I very rarely use it on my iPhone these days, only time I do is when I’m driving and just need basic stuff. I ALWAYS use it on my HomePod and HomePod mini though.
 
Nozuka said:
The only time i ever use Siri is on the Apple TV, when i miss something because i didn't understand it or was distracted.

"go back 30 seconds"
"what did she say?"

Both commands never fail.

Very rarely i use it to change music while driving. But it often doesn't play what i want or says something like "currently not available"
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You can ask Siri what someone said while watching something?! Since when?
 
CarpalMac said:
Remarkable at how ahead of the curve Apple was with implementing it.

Doubly remarkable at how they completely, utterly, seemingly unashamedly, squandered that lead.
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Because Steve died the next day. Imagine what Siri could have been with him at the helm.
 
Honestly all these “smart” devices aren’t that smart.. I have a google home and it’s good but there are plenty of times it does not understand me.
 
That was my first iPhone. I had a second generation iPod touch and used various feature phones until iPhone had good 3G capabilities.

Siri worked better in Japanese, for me, than it worked in English. 10 years later, it's still not of much use. I use Google Assistant with my Google Home Mini speaker and it generally works well.
 
Used Siri on my homepod today to locate my (fallen to oblivion) iPhone 7 that I use for a remote. Couldn’t do that 10 years ago, among many other tasks it does for me daily.

Google Assistant is still a more comprehensive voice assistant, the delta between them is significant however it isn’t as wide as many feel it is. Apple’s biggest issue is the secure nature of their services combined with a total lack of clear documentation of exactly what Siri does. This creates some unfortunate dead-ends and often times nonsensical responses for seemingly simple requests.
 
satchmo said:
I wish it could contextually understand more than one question without having to say 'Hey Siri' each time.

"Hey Siri, is it going to rain today?"
"Yes, looks like rain."
"How about tomorrow?"
*silence*
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sorry, this is one of few things Siri *can* do (just tried using my 6s).

I even asked about "the day after tomorrow" and it gave me the weather for Wednesday (today being Monday).

But: agree - often boggles my mind how limited it is.

Best example: cannot add Siri to my movie database app. Because searching for a movie is only possible for playback using iTunes/aMusic/aTV, but not for a custom database application. 10 years later: no custom domains. seriously?
 
bergert said:
sorry, this is one of few things Siri *can* do (just tried using my 6s).

I even asked about "the day after tomorrow" and it gave me the weather for Wednesday (today being Monday).

But: agree - often boggles my mind how limited it is.

Best example: cannot add Siri to my movie database app. Because searching for a movie is only possible for playback using iTunes/aMusic/aTV, but not for a custom database application. 10 years later: no custom domains. seriously?
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case in point: HomeSharing has no Siri. 10 years later: Apple is bigger, and the attention to details is getting smaller.
 
Alexa went the "fake it until you make it" route. Today Alexa is the virtual assistant winner.

Apple should really just redo Siri in parallel. The basic approach of Siri was probably correct for the time, but it doesn't scale. Apple's been paying for that mistake for almost a decade. That's the difference between "doing AI" and "getting AI-like results."

Users don't care how you do it, just that you do it.
 
I remember in the first few months, jail break devs were able to inject their own results into Siri. STILL not able to do that in an Apple endorsed way? What stupidity.
 
MacRumors said:
"For decades, technologists have teased us with this dream that you're going to be able to talk to technology and it'll do things for us," said Schiller, at a small press conference at Apple's former Infinite Loop headquarters.
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We are still being teased, Phil.
 
As others have already mentioned, after 10 years, Siri still feels like it never left beta stage. If Siri wasn't required for CarPlay, I would probably never use it. And even if we look just at speech output, the pronunciation of some words is still incorrect (at least in German).
 
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