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I was wanting a replacement for my Series 5 with a battery that was starting to get a bit tired decide to pick up a Series 9 last month during a significant price drop. I knew about the loss of the blood oxygen feature, but figured I wouldn't miss it since I never had it. I was pleasantly surprised that the Series 9 I bought from Best Buy still had the feature and now that I've had it for several weeks, I'm glad I have it. Hopefully, Apple will be able to offer the feature again in a few years when I get ready for another Apple Watch.

After years of being a Prime subscriber, I found myself ordering less and less from Amazon due to increasing prices and shipping times. I never liked Prime Video. I canceled earlier this year and haven't missed it at all.

Things like this are going to lead me to becoming a Luddite.

After a year of using the same AirPods Pro with the same iPhone, I went to use them this morning I got a message that said something like "can't connect to AirPods - please choose 'forget this device'" which I did. My iPhone then said that my AirPods were not my AirPods and instructed me to hold the button on the back of the case which I did. The AirPods then re-paired and worked normally. Weird.

Anyway, my AirPods still hadn't updated, so I followed the procedure here which updated the AirPods Pro case from 1.0.8 to 1.3.5 and the AirPods Pro to 4A400.

https://www.iphonetricks.org/airpods-firmware-4a400-update-how-to/

Examples of where Siri fails and Alexa excels for me:

"Hey, Siri. Add chicken enchiladas to the shopping list." Siri adds "chicken inch a lot of".

"Hey, Siri. Add chicken parmesan to the shopping list." Siri replies, "Okay - I've added those two items" and adds "chicken" and "parmesan" as separate items.

"Hey, Siri. Play Groove Salad on SomaFM." Siri says she can't do that.

"Hey, Siri. Play [my local public radio station]." After a long pause, Siri often responds that there was a problem playing the content. Alexa has no problem playing it.

"Hey, Siri. Add chicken piccata to the shopping list." Siri adds "Chupacabra".

"Hey, Siri. Add Albert's hot sauce to the shopping list." Siri adds "Albert f**k off". Really, Siri?

"Hey, Siri. Add toothpaste to the shopping list." Siri adds "toupees". Thanks for the reminder, Siri.

Half the time, when my brother tells Siri to "turn on the lights" using his HomePod, she plays some profane hip hop song that has no apparent connection to the request.

I use my voice professionally, so I'd like to think that I'm pronouncing these items correctly.

Alexa understands each of these requests correctly. I prefer using Siri for my shopping list because it's easier to use on all my Apples devices, but Siri's relative lack of intelligence makes the decision more difficult.