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I've got an Android, but my fiancée has the 4S. She's a very normal user and this is her first smartphone. Siri was fun for us at first and I was impressed wi
by ddw 15y ago
I've got an Android, but my fiancée has the 4S. She's a very normal user and this is her first smartphone.
Siri was fun for us at first and I was impressed with what it could do. But at this point my fiancée doesn't use it at all.
I disagree with others in that you DO have to learn how to speak to Siri for it to work, not the other way around. Yes, it's intelligent, but you have to bend your words a bit so that it will understand you. I can't think of a specific example right now, but I did see it happen to her a lot. And once it happens a few times you tend to give up on it.
In reality Siri accomplishes only simple things that can be done manually with a few touches. "What's the weather going to be?" Might as well just use the Weather app. "What's my schedule like today?" Just pull up your calendar and it's all there. I don't want to wait for the phone to talk to the Apple server to say "not bad. Only two meetings today." And by the way, who is Siri to say what is "not bad" or not?
And forget about using it in public. Overall I see it as the public's fascination with technology for the sake of it, not because it makes our lives better or more productive. Which is certainly Apple's wheelhouse.