Siri, set a timer
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this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2025
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I'm still on 17.7.1, but I suppose I still get the same Siri experience as everyone on AI riddled 18, and yeah there's been a massive decline in Siri lately. For years I've been using dictation from the Lock Screen to send text messages by saying, "Tell [Person] message." and ever since they started dabbling in AI, it hasn't been working correctly, especially if the message I'm dictating is longer than a sentence or two.
This has never happened to me.
Or maybe stop throwing "AI" into everything. Ffs. Nobody asked for this shit. Nobody wants this.
@oakey66 @cantankerous_cashew even worse: give me two hours and I will give you 80 really handy IF THEN rules that Apple at this moment does not use. For starters: IF music is playing while AppleWatch is in workout mode, THEN skip that song in all-time favourites/ recommendations.
Wiki:
Siri was acquired by Apple Inc. in April 2010 under the direction of Steve Jobs. Siri's original release on iPhone 4s on Oct 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri's limited set of features, "bad" voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple's prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.[3] Its launch was also overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs, which occurred one day after the launch.
Between the release 2011 until today, it was simmering and never developed. It is crazy how such a bad implementation was carried on by apple so long. Over 14 years of failed promises.
Oh yeah execs fix all the problems!
You have it backwards. They cause the problems.
Getting one that causes less problems is the goal.
Execs, new or old, are the problem, not the fix.
I disagree. I'm just an engineer, but I've worked for executive leadership across the spectrum from great to awful, and a great executive leader can make or break something by aligning everybody and cutting out bullshit and distractions.
That being said, they also have to have great people working for them, so they are far from the whole picture. But some positive changes just can't be made from the bottom up.
Revert it to how it was about 3 years ago, I think that’s around when it peaked.