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Today Marks the 10th Anniversary of Apple Introducing the iPhone 4S With Siri
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They actually demoed this during the announcement. It rewinds the video and turns on subtitles for that section as well. Probably one of the more common things I use Siri for on the Apple TV.
I think it's from a privacy perspective, but it's weird and a little frustrating that Siri still feels like it's catching up to itself from before Apple bought it.
Just watch this video of the original app. It's crazy how good Siri was 10 years ago. Can you imagine how useful it would be if they had continued down that path?
Half of the times I say "Hey sweetie" to my wife, Siri barges in and says "Sorry, I didn't get that"
But it is really good at that and alarms. I really just want my "assistant" to do little things like that. I don't want to converse with it, I don't want it to confirm it did something, I just want it to do what I ask and shut up. Siri is good for that for the most part.
You can absolutely do that. The feature is called "continued conversation" and you can keep asking questions without having to say "ok Google" over and over.
I was going to say the same thing but they said they wanted to do that *without* having to say "Hey Siri" for each question.
I actually use it all the time for settings reminders, sending text messages, and setting timers. It used to be atrocious for answering general questions ("How long does a redwood tree live?"). Instead of just saying "here's what I found on the web" it will now read the answer. Siri is not the best digital assistant but I've definitely noticed it improving over the years.
Half the times I say “Hey sweetie” to Siri, my wife barges in and says “Sorry I didn’t hear you”. 😜 I personally find Siri useful.
Siri has actually gotten worse over the last ten years because Apple removed the Wolfram Alpha integration. Some of the data queries that were in the original Siri demo 10 years ago can no longer be performed.
Perhaps I need to do some kind of refresh. I am aware of that setting, however it just doesn’t work on my lil mini
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The most bizarre thing was that I started playing around with 'Voice Command', and it WORKED! It worked better than Siri. I was left, after Siri became THE voice system for the iPhone, it just sucked. (Insert the words of steve jobs and his outburst on MobileMe).
'Voice Command' WORKED. Siri seemed like a joke, or a preemptive buy to steal another corporation's cheese. It's still not quite what it *should be*, IMO. It needs a LOT of work...
'Voice Command' WORKED. Siri seemed like a joke, or a preemptive buy to steal another corporation's cheese. It's still not quite what it *should be*, IMO. It needs a LOT of work...
Google Home has had continued conversations for about five years. You just need to turn the setting on in your app. You may have also missed this lovely feature… You can combine quarries and have complex requests. For example “hey google, turn off all the lights, set the burglar alarm to home and guarding, and wake me up at 5 AM to the song wake me up before you gogo”.
I loved Siri before Apple bought it. If you asked her to find you a hooker it would show you Yellow Pages for escort services
I don’t really give Apple credit for that. Siri was a standalone app that in my opinion, was actually better than it is now. Apple bought it and just took all the charm out of it and then slap their name on it and embedded it into ios.
Siri was acquired, not apple made. Apple just f-ed her up a lot. And in a decade should’ve been able to do something more with it Considering their resources
I still remember all the fuzz and interesting conversations I was having with siri using my iphone 4s at the time hahahaha