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Sure, it was innovative back before Apple bought it, but what Apple did to Siri was basically dumbing it down to the level of plunking things into a Google Sear

• mikeash 14y ago
  The most useful parts of Siri for me are time and location-based reminders, locating friends, and alerting me when a friend goes somewhere. All of this was in Apple's version of Siri, and as far as I know isn't duplicated by tossing text into Google.
  • cma 14y ago
    Google had voice tasks (initiation reminders, text messages, emails, navigation requests) before Siri was released. The only difference is they are pretty strictly keyword initiated ("Navigate to X", "Text Y Z"), whereas Siri can parse natural language for tasks (or at least appear to; it may well just have a bunch of hardcoded variations).