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Siri shares a lot of problems with Apple Maps wherein it simply gives up on a request shrugs and returns any answer rather than admitt failure. For example som
by knolan 8y ago
Siri shares a lot of problems with Apple Maps wherein it simply gives up on a request shrugs and returns any answer rather than admitt failure.
For example sometimes searching Apple Maps for an address like 123 Mountain View in a development where there are similar addresses like Mountain Drive or Mountain Glade it’ll often ignore what you typed (or correctly heard in the case of Siri) and give you the wrong location such as Mountain Wood. This is especially frustrating when it happens to be your home location.
For a compounded example I tried to use geofenced reminders on iOS. I had set my home and work addresses in Contacts but edited their location manually on the map because the postal address Apple offers isn’t correct and is useless when using the very useful autocomplete feature in safari. Searching for Home/Work on Apple maps goes to the incorrect location and jumps to the edited location. So when the Reminders App checks for the input location (Hey Siri remind me to do bla when I get home) it only goes to the incorrect location and sometimes another random Mountain location and never checks for the edit.
This is not the attention to detail Apple is supposedly known for.
- rangibaby 8y ago> This is not the attention to detail Apple is supposedly known for. It is the kind of annoying amusing malfunction Apple apps are known for. Autocorrect was another big offender for years. The funniest for me was when my iPhone insisted on changing “there” into “they’re” when “there” was correct
- StephenMelon 8y agoApple autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years. The worst part is that it often changes words that were correctly typed to something wrong without the user noticing. There are also obvious mistakes with location that just shouldn’t happen. If I am in Glasgow and ask Siri “how far to Loch Lomond?” it should be obvious that I mean Loch Lomond in Scotland and not Loch Lomond VA. It’s interesting to note Woz’s current enthusiasm for the watch because he was very down on it when it launched.
- saagarjha 8y agoApple Watch at has gotten significantly better since its launch.
- elboru 8y agoI don't know about other countries, but that also happens to me with Google Maps in Mexico. I sometimes query a street located in my city and it will send me thousands of kilometers away (even if they do have the street in their DB). I guess Google Maps calculates the probability a place will be looked for, and of course a small street in a not too big city in Mexico will be less likely to be searched than a popular place in Europe. But common if I wanted to look for something in Europe I'll zoom out and place the map in Europe. If my zoom is in my city I obviously want to look something in MY CITY!
- Swizec 8y agoBy far the greatest improvement I have ever made to just about all of my machine learning based apps was moving to San Francisco. You’d be surprised how well they all work here. Whenever I go visit back home in Slovenia my phone loses about 60% of its utility overnight.
- stevenwoo 8y agoI was two blocks from WeWork in downtown San Francisco, which is not a place I know well, entered the exact street address, and Apple Maps sent me two blocks farther away, I had to switch to Google Maps.
- samstave 8y agoIf there were one metric that i wish apple would actually capture and share with everyone in the world is: How many backspace keystrokes and seconds have been wasted due to autocorrect features on phones The other one only the universe knows: how much time has been wasted by humans untangling headphones which get tangled due to the grippy texture-finish of their rubberized coating
- bookofjoe 8y agoGood news: https://youtu.be/9D_oV14dGmM https://youtu.be/9D_oV14dGmM
- mojuba 8y agoSearch is never easy and Google has raised the bars in a lot of small ways so high that you have to be a search company to match the level. Apple is not a search company, it's not in their DNA as they say. Look at App Store search (and recommendations) for example, or the same Maps. Similarly Google can't build hardware products and good UIs. Sure they can copy and be moderately successful, but they never matched Apple in terms of knowing how to build gadgets as art/fashion items, and not just gadgets. Again, it's just not in the company's DNA. Wish there was a company with all that in one package... but no, nothing on the horizon yet.
- guelo 8y agoI wonder if you added up all the little niggling search and service issues from living in Apple's ecosystem and all the niggling device issues from living in the Google ecosystem which one would be smaller. I actually suspect Google's would be smaller because Apple deliberately handicaps itself in order to enhance privacy.
- mojuba 8y agoDon't think so, no. Making the Maps Search more sensible requires the app to know the current location which it does anyway, plus maybe your search history. I'm sure a lot of people would give Apple permission to store search history with all the Apple-style privacy statements in place of course. I think their product management just doesn't get it.
- singularity2001 8y ago> shrugs and returns any answer rather than admit failure I find no answer worse than a bad answer. Siri alternates between these two.
- knolan 8y agoThe inconsistency is worst.