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Me: “Set an alarm for 9 AM.” Siri: “It’s set for 9 AM.” Me: “Change that to 10 AM.” Siri: “I changed your alarm to 10 AM tomorrow.” Me: “Cancel that alarm.”

Me: “Set an alarm for 9 AM.” Siri: “It’s set for 9 AM.” Me: “Change that to 10 AM.” Siri: “I changed your alarm to 10 AM tomorrow.” Me: “Cancel that alarm.” Siri: “I deleted your 10 AM alarm.” Me: “Thank you, Siri.” Siri: “Your wish is my command.” It seems this thing is really fun to use. I can't wait to try it out.

antirez 15y ago
"Your wish is my command, but you are a little bit confused about tomorrow schedule."
- officemonkey 15y ago
  You seem to be having trouble setting priorities. Shall I: a. Purchase "The 7 habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey? b. Purchase "Getting Things Done" by David Allen?
  - purephase 15y ago
    I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but this is one of the first uses of Siri that makes me a bit worried about it in the future.
    - Skroob 15y ago
      That's not really Apple's style though.
alecperkins 15y ago
I can't wait to try stuff like this: “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.” Does its understanding of location extend to more than just home is the address I entered for myself? Exploring its capabilities will be really interesting. Siri's understanding of context is what makes it so useful. Pair it with Watson and it'd be unstoppable. (Wait, no! We've seen how that movie ends.)
- ajanuary 15y ago
  It works based on geofencing, which allows you to specify and label regions.
  - unlogic 15y ago
    And that just means keeping your GPS turned on the whole day. Sure, I always dreamed about losing all my battery charge to such an insanely great feature.
    - alphakappa 15y ago
      You may want to wait and see how this feature really works.
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wanorris 15y ago
That's incredibly cool, but I think Gruber's point about the problems of third party integration will prove to be crucial. Me: "Set my facebook status to getting ready to ride the roller coaster at Six Flags." Siri: ... Me: "Are there any headlines about my startup on the front page of Hacker News?" Siri: ... Me: "What Kindle books do I have on HTML 5?" Siri: ... Me: "Play me the latest episode of Glee on Netflix." Siri: ... Some of these, like Facebook, could be handled by smart first-party integration by Apple. But in general, any time a new use case comes along, first party integration is going to lag way behind, if it's implemented at all. I don't mean to rag on Siri -- it's an incredibly cool technology even today, and it apparently works amazingly well. But the more things you can do by picking up the phone and using the touch interfsce that you simply can't do at all with the voice interface, the less I think it will slot right into people's lives and become how they interface with their phone.
- S_A_P 15y ago
  Totally agree here, if this sort of thing gets worked out, I would feel like the future is here. I kind of see a naive way to make an api around that, but the trick to me would make it generic and adaptable enough to allow such a broad range of functionality, as well as conflict handling in a graceful manner. I am totally intrigued...
zerostar07 15y ago
Can we hack it to end every sentence with ", Master" ?

antirez 15y ago

"Your wish is my command, but you are a little bit confused about tomorrow schedule."

officemonkey 15y ago
You seem to be having trouble setting priorities. Shall I: a. Purchase "The 7 habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey? b. Purchase "Getting Things Done" by David Allen?
- purephase 15y ago
  I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but this is one of the first uses of Siri that makes me a bit worried about it in the future.
  - Skroob 15y ago
    That's not really Apple's style though.

alecperkins 15y ago

I can't wait to try stuff like this: “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.” Does its understanding of location extend to more than just home is the address I entered for myself? Exploring its capabilities will be really interesting. Siri's understanding of context is what makes it so useful. Pair it with Watson and it'd be unstoppable. (Wait, no! We've seen how that movie ends.)

ajanuary 15y ago
It works based on geofencing, which allows you to specify and label regions.
- unlogic 15y ago
  And that just means keeping your GPS turned on the whole day. Sure, I always dreamed about losing all my battery charge to such an insanely great feature.
  - alphakappa 15y ago
    You may want to wait and see how this feature really works.
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wanorris 15y ago

That's incredibly cool, but I think Gruber's point about the problems of third party integration will prove to be crucial. Me: "Set my facebook status to getting ready to ride the roller coaster at Six Flags." Siri: ... Me: "Are there any headlines about my startup on the front page of Hacker News?" Siri: ... Me: "What Kindle books do I have on HTML 5?" Siri: ... Me: "Play me the latest episode of Glee on Netflix." Siri: ... Some of these, like Facebook, could be handled by smart first-party integration by Apple. But in general, any time a new use case comes along, first party integration is going to lag way behind, if it's implemented at all. I don't mean to rag on Siri -- it's an incredibly cool technology even today, and it apparently works amazingly well. But the more things you can do by picking up the phone and using the touch interfsce that you simply can't do at all with the voice interface, the less I think it will slot right into people's lives and become how they interface with their phone.

S_A_P 15y ago
Totally agree here, if this sort of thing gets worked out, I would feel like the future is here. I kind of see a naive way to make an api around that, but the trick to me would make it generic and adaptable enough to allow such a broad range of functionality, as well as conflict handling in a graceful manner. I am totally intrigued...

zerostar07 15y ago

Can we hack it to end every sentence with ", Master" ?