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Selecting a default behaviour based on what "most people" will benefit from is great some cases, but mostly cases people will encounter only once. People who h
by dusted 6y ago
Selecting a default behaviour based on what "most people" will benefit from is great some cases, but mostly cases people will encounter only once.
People who happen to fall beside the "most" category should not have to deal with that every single time.
The right thing to do for Siri is to ask, maybe just once, which london you want to know the time for, if its not smart enough to infer it from something else it's learned about you.
Assuming a person is physically closer to the non-british london, it's entirely likely that they travel there more often, and if the siri software has no other parameters tracked, then it's not unreasonable to assume that they're asking about that.
- ArgyleSound 6y ago> Assuming a person is physically closer to the non-british london, it's entirely likely that they travel there more often It really isn’t. I can see this being the case for people that live within, say, 100 miles of London, ON - but why would they want to know the time there in that case?
- sadfklsjlkjwt 6y agoI would guess that there are more people in North America who are interested in London than people in North America who are interested in London, Ontario. See what I did there? London (which is a major global city) doesn't need a qualifier anymore than New York does.
- onion2k 6y agoAssuming a person is physically closer to the non-british london, it's entirely likely that they travel there more often... It's also reasonable to assume they're in the same timezone as 'their' London and wouldn't need to ask what time it is in the local one. That's another reason to default to one further away, which for most people would be Britain.