Since84
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Post by Since84 on Mar 14, 2018 2:46:52 GMT -8
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Post by Since84 on Mar 14, 2018 5:35:08 GMT -8
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Post by phoebear611 on Mar 14, 2018 16:35:26 GMT -8
Recently I received a few Google Home pods as a gift. They're wonderful. I have mentioned it on this board in the past that Siri is awful. She rarely understands what i'm asking and it's a source of frustration for me. Furthermore, without a well functioning Siri, Apple will never own the home...but then again, given the lack of innovation with the TV - it seems obvious. Tonight PED wrote a piece and it explains it all. I wanted to share it with you:
Published March 14, 2018 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt The Information: Why Siri sucks It’s even worse than I feared, judging from the report posted Wednesday by The Information ($). From The Seven-Year Itch: How Apple’s Marriage to Siri Turned Sour, by Aaron Tilley and Kevin McLaughlin:
Many of the former employees acknowledged for the first time that Apple rushed Siri into the iPhone 4s before the technology was fully baked, setting up an internal debate that has raged since Siri’s inception over whether to continue patching up a flawed build or to rip it up and start from scratch. And that debate was just one of many, as Siri’s various teams morphed into an unwieldy apparatus that engaged in petty turf battles and heated arguments over what an ideal version of Siri should be—a quick and accurate information fetcher or a conversant and intuitive assistant capable of complex tasks.
Presiding over it all has been a revolving door of team leaders and middle managers who lack the kind of vision or clout possessed by Mr. Jobs, who passed away from pancreatic cancer the day after Apple introduced Siri. The absence of such leadership and the constant turnover has held Siri back in key ways, these former employees said, most notably in the failure to open up Apple’s notoriously closed culture to allow outside developers a greater opportunity to create a broader array of useful Siri apps…
“When Alexa shipped, it was rock solid from day one,” said a former Siri team member. “For Siri to get there, they almost need to set everything aside and start over.”
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Post by sponge on Mar 14, 2018 21:23:35 GMT -8
Recently I received a few Google Home pods as a gift. They're wonderful. I have mentioned it on this board in the past that Siri is awful. She rarely understands what i'm asking and it's a source of frustration for me. Furthermore, without a well functioning Siri, Apple will never own the home...but then again, given the lack of innovation with the TV - it seems obvious. Tonight PED wrote a piece and it explains it all. I wanted to share it with you: Published March 14, 2018 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt The Information: Why Siri sucks It’s even worse than I feared, judging from the report posted Wednesday by The Information ($). From The Seven-Year Itch: How Apple’s Marriage to Siri Turned Sour, by Aaron Tilley and Kevin McLaughlin: Many of the former employees acknowledged for the first time that Apple rushed Siri into the iPhone 4s before the technology was fully baked, setting up an internal debate that has raged since Siri’s inception over whether to continue patching up a flawed build or to rip it up and start from scratch. And that debate was just one of many, as Siri’s various teams morphed into an unwieldy apparatus that engaged in petty turf battles and heated arguments over what an ideal version of Siri should be—a quick and accurate information fetcher or a conversant and intuitive assistant capable of complex tasks. Presiding over it all has been a revolving door of team leaders and middle managers who lack the kind of vision or clout possessed by Mr. Jobs, who passed away from pancreatic cancer the day after Apple introduced Siri. The absence of such leadership and the constant turnover has held Siri back in key ways, these former employees said, most notably in the failure to open up Apple’s notoriously closed culture to allow outside developers a greater opportunity to create a broader array of useful Siri apps… “When Alexa shipped, it was rock solid from day one,” said a former Siri team member. “For Siri to get there, they almost need to set everything aside and start over.” I could not agree more regarding Siri. I have a friend with a Samsung. His Google Now runs circles around Siri. I am left embarrassed half the time as I try the same questions on Siri. I don’t think Apple cares. They say they do, but they sell more phones based on overall experience and quality now more then ever. Siri is a small part of the equation. I think until it is separated from the cloud, it will be a beta product. So I give it 7 more years.
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Post by sponge on Mar 14, 2018 21:26:16 GMT -8
I might add that Apple Maps is still in beta and Google maps is faster and more accurate and more intuitive then ever.
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