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Former Apple Employee here: I still remember for one WWDC my colleague’s talk had to be altered to change all mentions of “A-Series” socs to “A7 and later” to a
by zer0zzz 3y ago
Former Apple Employee here: I still remember for one WWDC my colleague’s talk had to be altered to change all mentions of “A-Series” socs to “A7 and later” to avoid triggering “Hey Siri” on every single person’s phone in the audience.
- mitemte 3y agoA scene in the second most recent episode of Ted Lasso, when a character uses Siri on their iPhone triggered Siri on my HomePod Mini in the same room. Siri attempted to follow the instructions spoken by the character but failed miserably. If Apple is going to plug their half baked assistant in their shows, the least they could do is prevent it from being invoked. It may vary by language – I’m in Australia and the character speaking has a British accent, yet sounds nothing like me. There was also a period of about 18 months where running water in my shower would trigger Siri on my Apple Watch. Dismissing Siri was pointless, as it’d get triggered again 5 seconds later.
- terhechte 3y agoThe same Ted Lasso thing happened to us. It's strange because Apple produces this content. You'd think they'd make sure their Apple+ content doesn't lead to bad Siri hiccups
- KyeRussell 3y agoThe increasing blatant Apple product placement in Ted Lasso is really really getting to me. It’s utterly tasteless.
- matty22 3y agoMy wife and I bought a VW ID4. It's "smart" voice command keyphrase is "Hey ID". _Every_ time one of us says in conversation, "I have an idea" it kicks on. So, now we have to talk around it and never use the word "idea" in conversation while in the car.
- m_st 3y agoThat made my day! Just a few weeks ago I was watching a 'Shrinking' episode on Apple TV where they said "Hey Siri play <some-song>" and then my HomePod saying "OK I'll play <some-song> for you" and me yelling back "Hey Siri stop! I'm watching TV". Modern live...
- pdpi 3y agoOne of the guys on the Cracking the Cryptic sudoku Youtube channel keeps accidentally triggering Alexa on his videos. It's pretty funny.
- BillinghamJ 3y agoSurprised for that to happen from an Apple TV+ series. I was under the impression all voice assistants had a standard way to play inaudible sound to briefly disable their activation for this exact situation
- KyeRussell 3y agoAh, well, if Shrinking has Ted Lasso-tier product placement, I’ll probably move it further down my list.
- m_st 3y agoYes well too bad, there‘s plenty of Apple product placement. And I still find it strange to have a TV show starting with an Apple logo. But Shrinking is really worth watching.