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WWDC 2019: Siri Expected to Become More Useful With Third-Party Apps on iOS 13 and More
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Bwahahahahaha, yeah right. Apple? Try your competition and see if they do it right. Ask Siri, Hey Siri, how do you pronounce Porsche? Then ask Google. Siri says “Here is what I found on the web for how do you pronounce Porsche” and it gets the pronunciations correct but sends you to the dumb search pages! Google tells you how it is pronounced, end of engagement, the way it ought to be. Get it right Apple.
Yep, that proves it.
Science tells us that 90% of computer usage is spent by people who never watched a Fish Called Wanda trying to find out how to pronounce the name of a car they’ll never own.
The other 10% (who, like me, owned a Boxster and saw every John Cleese movie) are Apple’s target market, of course.
God... No! Just start slowly and quietly phasing out Siri , it had like 18 months glory followed by a year of meh, then endless decline
No one will miss it, I try to turn it off p, successful on my iPad and iPhone, but Apple made it a must on the watch
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And I'm glad Apple is catering to the 10% category that you define
No one will miss it, I try to turn it off p, successful on my iPad and iPhone, but Apple made it a must on the watch
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Thanks for letting us know you owned a Porsche. I see you went for one of the cheaper ones so ... good for you?
And I'm glad Apple is catering to the 10% category that you define
Amen. I don't know what integration with more apps will do if the thing misses tons of words and has ***** sense of context.Let's work on making Siri useful before we start trying to make her "more useful"
They should have more languages available in Siri.
Alexa is better in so many ways.
Google is catching up and it’s just sad ☹️.
Apple invented the iPhone, IOS and from others be able to copy Apple in so many ways, how can these be happening?
It’s just sad
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Alexa is better in so many ways.
Google is catching up and it’s just sad ☹️.
Apple invented the iPhone, IOS and from others be able to copy Apple in so many ways, how can these be happening?
It’s just sad
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It's going to be interesting to see how "Marzipan" plays out with apps coming to Mac. So far i like the first party ones, News and Home i use regularly.
Does anyone know how this is going to affect the Touch Bar? are Apple making these ported IOS apps touch friendly with the Touch Bar?
Does anyone know how this is going to affect the Touch Bar? are Apple making these ported IOS apps touch friendly with the Touch Bar?
Nobody ever said that - it's been the year of Linux for multiple decades already; most Internet servers are powered by Linux. Apple's own server farms run on Linux (previously Solaris), not macOS.
What you meant is: "The year of the Linux DESKTOP." And that is bound to happen one day, too, simply because Microsoft and Apple are no longer interested in desktop platforms anymore. Windows is being transformed into "a service", or rather: a Microsoft Azure cloud client, and macOS... is just an afterthought, floating dead in the water. Linux is the last remaining desktop platform that is under active development.
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Don't you agree that this whole concept is totally absurd? I mean, you need a Mac to write software for iOS, and now the Mac needs an additional layer like "Marzipan" to bring iOS apps back to the very desktop platform that was used to write them in the first place? That is just grotesque - and wrong on more levels than anybody can count. It also demonstrates how irrelevant macOS has become. There was a time when Apple actively pushed the Mac as a platform and provided powerful frameworks for it that made it attractive to write software for. Now all Apple does is giving the Mac a crutch so that it can limp on a bit further.
No i can't agree on that, i actually like this idea. It's making it easier for developers to bring their apps to the Mac in the first place. Personally i think last years MacOS update (Mojave) was one of the best. This year will be very interesting to see where Apple takes it, and personally i'm just glad that they are not merging MacOS and IOS into one.
Even with the mistakes that Apple have made with the Mac (and they have made some in recent times) it still has the best OS, compared to Windows MacOS is miles better (in my opinion). I recently owned a Surface Pro 6, the worst part about the device was Windows (and the whole 2 in one concept that i just don't think works well at all).
The one thing i want Apple to do, fix the keyboard issue! i will then be all over the buy button for the new MacBook Air.
I knew, I knew, I knew this was a meaningless 'conversation', but I engaged anyway...oh well. Lesson learned.
Nope, many can into development the other way around, the iPhone was their introduction to app creation, and now Apple's just making it easier for those developers to make their apps accessible on another platform especially where create of a desktop app isn't priority/economically feasible.
I'm quite looking forward to having access to some of my iOS only apps on my Macs.
This and the fact that nine-year-olds now use Swift with some fluency should make the life of any elementary school teacher much more exciting.
Siri supports many more languages than Alexa.
I have Alexa in my sonos speakers and it’s terrible. No idea why you think it’s better than Siri.
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Marzipan isn’t another layer. It’s uikit on Mac. And in a few years appkit will be like carbon. Available, but nobody other than extreme holdouts will be coding for it.
A Boxter? LOL OK Siri. That’s is hardly a real Porsche. Ask Siri to get you a real one and get back to us. Siri is broken, she can’t right now.
You guys don’t get comedy, it’s clear.
But if you are expecting Siri to be able to bring you a two-seater mid-engined sports car with a boxer motor, that may explain why you are disappointed.
So if accurate, it looks like external storage support remains gimped in iOS 13. It's slightly less gimped, but gimped nonetheless.
You are right in that I did meant desktop Linux. On your other point, that just because Apple and Microsoft don’t seem to care anymore therefore Linux will be on the desktop in any meaninful way I disagree.
The reason Apple and Microsoft don’t care anymore is because most people will do most of their stuff on a phone or tablet. Regular people don’t give a crap about desktop OSes anymore. And most are content with what they have.
In my job I use Windows 7. Works fine.
In my daily life I use my iPhone and my iPad Pro. I have a MacBook Air and never use it anymore. I have a notebook with Windows 10 literally just to play Borderlands 2.
Were you hoping for "sucks to be you"? What response would have been more appropriate? On the web you can literally find tips to find your keys.
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No, we were expected to have it last year. After they missed their internal deadline last year, they took down references to it on their website rather than make a new commitment.
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Google works hard to protect your data.. because of its value to them, not its value to you.
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It's extremely unlikely - in fact, we are more likely to see the end of desktops (moving to tablets, phones, laptops and workstations) before we see linux have a significant (say > 20%) share.
No commercial entity cares about promoting Linux as a desktop OS either, they are just packaging what people are doing in open source. The closest we have is ChromeOS - and that's likely to move off of the Linux kernel in the future.
Probably a dumb question, but does Siri use Wolfram Alpha as a source? Or is it still Bing?