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Oh man, it gets worse than that. After updating to iOS 17 the other day, I said to my phone "play OverCast" (my podcast app). It used to start playing from that

Oh man, it gets worse than that. After updating to iOS 17 the other day, I said to my phone "play OverCast" (my podcast app). It used to start playing from that app. This time, it started playing a band called Overcast, and told me I had just started a 7 day free trial of Apple Music. What the actual fuck.

chatmasta 3y ago
brb, starting a band called "Spotify" and opening a 24/7 convenience store called "Google Maps"
- gnicholas 3y ago
  It's not a bug, it's a feature. People have done crazier things! Didn't Steve Jobs once say that part of the reason he named the company Apple was because it would be before Atari in the phone book? [1] 1: https://www.macworld.com/article/673923/why-is-apple-called-apple.html#:~:text=Back%20when%20Apple%20was%20founded,for%20whom%20Jobs%20had%20worked https://www.macworld.com/article/673923/why-is-apple-called-...).
  - rib3ye 3y ago
    Not just in the phone books. Ever wonder why the stock ticker has two A’s?
    - jen729w 3y ago
      If you’re picking stocks by order of the alphabet you deserve what you get. Which, incidentally, was a tremendous return.
      - rib3ye 3y ago
        Once upon a time, stocks were listed alphabetically in something called newspapers.
- RunSet 3y ago
  https://i.imgur.com/RfFM4cr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RfFM4cr.jpg
  - gcanyon 3y ago
    That's...genius.
pasc1878 3y ago
You don't need iOS17 for Siri to do things like that, It hapeenes on many other versions of iOS (or in my case Homekit)
- gnicholas 3y ago
  I realize it was possible before. My point is that now it's the only way for me to set the lights to be a color other than what my presets happened to be when I upgraded to iOS 17.
  - pasc1878 3y ago
    No I meant that Siri before iOS17 would have these problems. It is not new to iOS 17 - well it might be for your setup but others have had these issues with earlier versions.
BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
Meanwhile, at Apple: "Users really love the update! Trial signups are up 438% over the previous quarter!"
dncornholio 3y ago
How is this "It gets worse"? iOS has to assume what you mean with play OverCast. Maybe there are other people that wanted the device to play the band? This is such an edge-case which is easily solved by further specifying your prompt.
- i_don_t_know 3y ago
  It's not just playing the wrong band / app. It's signing you up for a subscription. You still have time to cancel before you have to pay. But it's one more thing you have to worry about now. It should have confirmed that you're fine with subscribing if that's what you have to do to listen to the band. And it's also fine to play the wrong band if you have a subscription already.
- viraptor 3y ago
  It knows a) whether you have overcast installed and when was it last used, b) whether you added the overcast band to your favourites or ever explicitly played one of their songs. I'm sure there's some tiny section where the the extra prompt would be useful, but they could be so much better than that.
happytiger 3y ago
How is that legal? Jeebus.

chatmasta 3y ago

brb, starting a band called "Spotify" and opening a 24/7 convenience store called "Google Maps"

gnicholas 3y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature. People have done crazier things! Didn't Steve Jobs once say that part of the reason he named the company Apple was because it would be before Atari in the phone book? [1] 1: https://www.macworld.com/article/673923/why-is-apple-called-apple.html#:~:text=Back%20when%20Apple%20was%20founded,for%20whom%20Jobs%20had%20worked https://www.macworld.com/article/673923/why-is-apple-called-...).
- rib3ye 3y ago
  Not just in the phone books. Ever wonder why the stock ticker has two A’s?
  - jen729w 3y ago
    If you’re picking stocks by order of the alphabet you deserve what you get. Which, incidentally, was a tremendous return.
    - rib3ye 3y ago
      Once upon a time, stocks were listed alphabetically in something called newspapers.
RunSet 3y ago
https://i.imgur.com/RfFM4cr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RfFM4cr.jpg
- gcanyon 3y ago
  That's...genius.

pasc1878 3y ago

You don't need iOS17 for Siri to do things like that, It hapeenes on many other versions of iOS (or in my case Homekit)

gnicholas 3y ago
I realize it was possible before. My point is that now it's the only way for me to set the lights to be a color other than what my presets happened to be when I upgraded to iOS 17.
- pasc1878 3y ago
  No I meant that Siri before iOS17 would have these problems. It is not new to iOS 17 - well it might be for your setup but others have had these issues with earlier versions.

BHSPitMonkey 3y ago

Meanwhile, at Apple: "Users really love the update! Trial signups are up 438% over the previous quarter!"

dncornholio 3y ago

How is this "It gets worse"? iOS has to assume what you mean with play OverCast. Maybe there are other people that wanted the device to play the band? This is such an edge-case which is easily solved by further specifying your prompt.

i_don_t_know 3y ago
It's not just playing the wrong band / app. It's signing you up for a subscription. You still have time to cancel before you have to pay. But it's one more thing you have to worry about now. It should have confirmed that you're fine with subscribing if that's what you have to do to listen to the band. And it's also fine to play the wrong band if you have a subscription already.
viraptor 3y ago
It knows a) whether you have overcast installed and when was it last used, b) whether you added the overcast band to your favourites or ever explicitly played one of their songs. I'm sure there's some tiny section where the the extra prompt would be useful, but they could be so much better than that.

happytiger 3y ago

How is that legal? Jeebus.