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> Siri sucks. I’m surely in a niche group here, but I’m appreciating Siri more and more. It’s a mostly competent tool for basic operations and simple question
by ryanwhitney 1y ago
> Siri sucks.
I’m surely in a niche group here, but I’m appreciating Siri more and more.
It’s a mostly competent tool for basic operations and simple questions. For something I interact with over audio, I’ll choose that over a bullshit machine any day of the week.
- dyauspitr 1y agoSiri does nothing except set timers. It is completely useless.
- nasmorn 11mo agoWe use it to play music in the car on Spotify sometimes. While it is really bad ad this we found out it mishears quite reliably so there are now some crazy things that I would have never played myself that my family has heard in the car. This has brought a lot of joy to some mundane drives. But when I am alone on a run I really wished it would just work because without someone else to laugh about it, it really sucks
- ryanwhitney 11mo agoThat's funny you mention that—very similar experience here. My partner and I often get a laugh out of the strange occasional errors. Things like responding with "…huh?", and then completing the task. I'd rather see a robot fail rather than eat the world and fill it with trash. But the running use case does sound very annoying!
- asimovDev 1y agoI only use Siri for setting reminders and thankfully it works just fine for that.
- whycome 11mo agoThat's interesting. It has literally gotten worse over time. The same queries that were fine earlier now fail or go wrong. Too often it fails with basically "I can't do that" but not explain why. A tool like that shouldn't just be "mostly competent" -- the failures just mean it's not worth the time to try (i might as well use another guaranteed tool rather than the coin flip and time sink of asking siri).