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For some, Siri is a game-changer. For otheres (seemingly including JK) it's a "Meh". This is typical of reactions to Apple's many extremely successful products:

by MaysonL 15y ago

For some, Siri is a game-changer. For otheres (seemingly including JK) it's a "Meh". This is typical of reactions to Apple's many extremely successful products: see Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad. And as Siri gets better, it will perhaps be as successful as those products.

akent 15y ago
Why do you assume Siri will get better? Get better in what respect?
- 2muchcoffeeman 15y ago
  Why wouldn't it get better? Their speech recognition and ability to understand certain contexts will almost certainly improve over time as they gather more and more data. It's surprising to me that people dismiss it so soon. Does no one remember how poor google voice used to be at recognition? It's too soon to call Siri 'meh'.
- jinushaun 15y ago
  3rd party app support for one. Siri would be infinitely more useful if I could IM, tweet or Facebook with it. Or if I could control Spotify or Pandora with it.
esrauch 15y ago
The iPod didn't really evolve in any meaningful way from it's original offering, and the iPad has evolved even less. Those products received a big "Meh" from early adopter types, but it turned out that they weren't targeting those people, they were targeting the vast majority of people who had never heard of Rio MP3 players in 2001, and who don't even know what a hard drive is. The Media Mehs in those cases were because of a fundamental disconnect between what the reviewers expected to be important in a product and what the product actually offered, only to be shown that they can be useful to many people in their simplicity. I just don't see Siri as something that is going to significantly evolve in a meaningful way. People seem to already find it useful in it's current state though, so I could easily see an argument for analogies to iPod and iPad that most early adopters / people involved in the software industry are notoriously bad at evaluating the current state of these products, even without it having to evolve.
megablast 15y ago
This is typical for almost anything, from 3d-TVs, to cars, to cheap airline flights. Unless something is universally loves or hated, it falls into this category. I would not be surprised to see Siri making it into other devices, including the new Apple TV.

by MaysonL 15y ago

akent 15y ago

Why do you assume Siri will get better? Get better in what respect?

2muchcoffeeman 15y ago
Why wouldn't it get better? Their speech recognition and ability to understand certain contexts will almost certainly improve over time as they gather more and more data. It's surprising to me that people dismiss it so soon. Does no one remember how poor google voice used to be at recognition? It's too soon to call Siri 'meh'.
jinushaun 15y ago
3rd party app support for one. Siri would be infinitely more useful if I could IM, tweet or Facebook with it. Or if I could control Spotify or Pandora with it.

esrauch 15y ago

The iPod didn't really evolve in any meaningful way from it's original offering, and the iPad has evolved even less. Those products received a big "Meh" from early adopter types, but it turned out that they weren't targeting those people, they were targeting the vast majority of people who had never heard of Rio MP3 players in 2001, and who don't even know what a hard drive is. The Media Mehs in those cases were because of a fundamental disconnect between what the reviewers expected to be important in a product and what the product actually offered, only to be shown that they can be useful to many people in their simplicity. I just don't see Siri as something that is going to significantly evolve in a meaningful way. People seem to already find it useful in it's current state though, so I could easily see an argument for analogies to iPod and iPad that most early adopters / people involved in the software industry are notoriously bad at evaluating the current state of these products, even without it having to evolve.

megablast 15y ago

This is typical for almost anything, from 3d-TVs, to cars, to cheap airline flights. Unless something is universally loves or hated, it falls into this category. I would not be surprised to see Siri making it into other devices, including the new Apple TV.