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Siri launched in 2011 with a live demo of untrained speech recognition which was unheard of at the time. Alexa launched in 2014 and Google Assistant in 2016.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Siri launched in 2011 with a live demo of untrained speech recognition which was unheard of at the time.
Alexa launched in 2014 and Google Assistant in 2016.
Siri has not always been ‘not as good as Alexa or Google’, it existed way before either of them were released.
- novok 4y agoAnd none of that matters? As a product to do basic things like 'turn off lights' and 'whats the temperature' and such it fails horribly, while alexa and co at least are very reliable on the basics.
- tinus_hn 4y agoYou can argue all you want that Google and Alexa have surpassed Siri but the thread is about Apple not launching poor products. Siri wasn’t a poor product, surpassed by Alexa and Google, at launch because they didn’t exist when Siri launched.
- rhaway84773 4y agoSiri was a lot better when it was being run by a tiny startup as opposed to once Apple started taking control of development isn’t much of a defense of Apple. In fact, the Siri Apple released was significantly gimped compared to the Siri that was available on the App Store before Apple bought it.