It'd be great if she did more jokes like this for a broader range of topics, but used them DURING searches to mask transit times.
You could say, "I'd like 4,000 lattes to go." Siri would reply, "I miss Steve, too. Here are some cafés in your area." The first sentence done on-device while the location search is going on behind it.
Great idea
Or they could just speed up the search to match Google, which is orders of magnitude faster than Siri. And better result too, in my opinion. The only time I use Siri is to do something with the device such as set an alarm or a calendar entry.
Why the heck is Apple threatened by Glass enough to give it the time of day? While there are some very interesting edge case uses for it, I'm fairly confidant it will not go over well with the general public.
Someone here is taking Google Glass way too seriously.
Or they could just speed up the search to match Google, which is orders of magnitude faster than Siri. And better result too, in my opinion. The only time I use Siri is to do something with the device such as set an alarm or a calendar entry.
Orders of magnitude? Really? Care to document that?
Just more whining from the same person who insisted that Apple Maps was unusable - even after independent testing showed that it was just as good as Google Maps.
Gee, paying all the shills must cost Google a fortune.
I suppose it's fun, and probably not putting significant toll on Apple's staff, but it's a bit frivolous to be putting this out when Siri is still too slow to be practically useful nine times out of ten.
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Originally Posted by allenbf
Yay, more jokes from Siri. Why did they waste time on this. How about making Siri more useful?
I agree. Dependency on Internet connection and going remote is the biggest drawback of SIRI. Having at least a limited basis on the device with regular updates based on eg location or uindividual sage patterns would be great such that she needs to reach out for the servers less often. I don't think you could pack all SIRI Localfor the next two decades
You gotta think ahead when thinking about Siri. First off, Siri needs the server connection to learn more about human speech patterns and understanding. She's much better at understanding what I want then she was earlier. As Apple ups the capability of the A chip, it becomes more and more able to take on what the server does, leaving the ever-decreasing cost of flash memory as the other limit to Siri's ability to operate completely inside the iDevice.
I see a day when the Siri Local info would be gulped down once Siri finds a free wifi in a new location and then operates in that new city as if it had always been there. Just keep thinking about how Apple thinks, and how small moves today are putting in place the infrastructure for large leaps in the future.
Agreed. Why give them free advertising? I can just see Brian Williams and Anderson Cooper smirking their way through this tonight.
The user has to bring the subject up for Siri to respond. Hardly free advertising, especially since she doesn't refer to Google or Google Glass as such.
Why the heck is Apple threatened by Glass enough to give it the time of day? While there are some very interesting edge case uses for it, I'm fairly confidant it will not go over well with the general public.
Apple's not threatened, that an absurd conclusion. Why should Apple let Siri seem stupid about one of the other "assistants" out there??
Yay, more jokes from Siri. Why did they waste time on this. How about making Siri more useful?
I suspect it's much the same reason why you, Gatorguy and DroidFTW wasted time adding your comments to the thread. Instead of criticising Apple and/or defending Google on an Apple forum, you could be making useful comments on Google forums to Google fans. Comments like: 'hey do you like Google Glass, yeah I like Google Glass it's pointless but unique and new, did you search for things using Google, yeah I love searching for things, hey did you hear that Apple is suing, they suck 'cos everybody should be allowed to just take things from other people, no way they stole the notification panel, no way they stole some UI theme that looks nothing like it, that's not ok they can't steal, only we can steal except we don't steal anything - everything that Google has done was obvious, hey did you steal some apps today, yeah me and 50000 others'.
When Samsung takes a swipe at Apple in their ads, it's ok but Apple does it in a much more subtle and humorous way and that's not ok? The reactions by some to the Samsung ads were that they were outdoing Apple and Apple's ads were lame and they had become Microsoft and Google was the new Apple. This is just Apple again showing that they haven't changed - they're the same people who left poems in the OS for people hacking it:
Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
It'd be great if she did more jokes like this for a broader range of topics, but used them DURING searches to mask transit times.
You could say, "I'd like 4,000 lattes to go." Siri would reply, "I miss Steve, too. Here are some cafés in your area." The first sentence done on-device while the location search is going on behind it.
Great idea
Or they could just speed up the search to match Google, which is orders of magnitude faster than Siri. And better result too, in my opinion. The only time I use Siri is to do something with the device such as set an alarm or a calendar entry.
Or
"I'm going to set off an alarm to warn people in the general area that you might be recording them"
"dim the screen"
Siri: OK I made it a bit darker.
"full brigthness"
Siri: This is as bright as it gets.
I find this much better than Glass jokes.
"Siri, do you like Apple?" "I'm pretty loyal to Apple. It's just how I'm made."
Someone here is taking Google Glass way too seriously.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Personally I'm surprised that Apple is giving attention to Google Glass.
Agreed. Why give them free advertising? I can just see Brian Williams and Anderson Cooper smirking their way through this tonight.
Orders of magnitude? Really? Care to document that?
Just more whining from the same person who insisted that Apple Maps was unusable - even after independent testing showed that it was just as good as Google Maps.
Gee, paying all the shills must cost Google a fortune.
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Originally Posted by Crowley
I suppose it's fun, and probably not putting significant toll on Apple's staff, but it's a bit frivolous to be putting this out when Siri is still too slow to be practically useful nine times out of ten.
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Originally Posted by allenbf
Yay, more jokes from Siri. Why did they waste time on this. How about making Siri more useful?
Siri- beaters.
Originally Posted by DroidFTW
Odd that you would read that as I'm the one taking Glass too seriously when my post was about Apple taking Glass too seriously.
They're making fun of it; how is that taking it seriously?!
Siri is just answering "okay glass". If you say it, you know what Glass is already.
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Originally Posted by WonkoTheSane
I agree. Dependency on Internet connection and going remote is the biggest drawback of SIRI. Having at least a limited basis on the device with regular updates based on eg location or uindividual sage patterns would be great such that she needs to reach out for the servers less often. I don't think you could pack all SIRI Localfor the next two decades
You gotta think ahead when thinking about Siri. First off, Siri needs the server connection to learn more about human speech patterns and understanding. She's much better at understanding what I want then she was earlier. As Apple ups the capability of the A chip, it becomes more and more able to take on what the server does, leaving the ever-decreasing cost of flash memory as the other limit to Siri's ability to operate completely inside the iDevice.
I see a day when the Siri Local info would be gulped down once Siri finds a free wifi in a new location and then operates in that new city as if it had always been there. Just keep thinking about how Apple thinks, and how small moves today are putting in place the infrastructure for large leaps in the future.
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Originally Posted by pazuzu
Agreed. Why give them free advertising? I can just see Brian Williams and Anderson Cooper smirking their way through this tonight.
The user has to bring the subject up for Siri to respond. Hardly free advertising, especially since she doesn't refer to Google or Google Glass as such.
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Originally Posted by allenbf
Yay, more jokes from Siri. Why did they waste time on this. How about making Siri more useful?
May I refer you to the further integration of Siri with far more apps and functions in iOS 7...?
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Originally Posted by DroidFTW
Why the heck is Apple threatened by Glass enough to give it the time of day? While there are some very interesting edge case uses for it, I'm fairly confidant it will not go over well with the general public.
Apple's not threatened, that an absurd conclusion. Why should Apple let Siri seem stupid about one of the other "assistants" out there??
I suspect it's much the same reason why you, Gatorguy and DroidFTW wasted time adding your comments to the thread. Instead of criticising Apple and/or defending Google on an Apple forum, you could be making useful comments on Google forums to Google fans. Comments like: 'hey do you like Google Glass, yeah I like Google Glass it's pointless but unique and new, did you search for things using Google, yeah I love searching for things, hey did you hear that Apple is suing, they suck 'cos everybody should be allowed to just take things from other people, no way they stole the notification panel, no way they stole some UI theme that looks nothing like it, that's not ok they can't steal, only we can steal except we don't steal anything - everything that Google has done was obvious, hey did you steal some apps today, yeah me and 50000 others'.
When Samsung takes a swipe at Apple in their ads, it's ok but Apple does it in a much more subtle and humorous way and that's not ok? The reactions by some to the Samsung ads were that they were outdoing Apple and Apple's ads were lame and they had become Microsoft and Google was the new Apple. This is just Apple again showing that they haven't changed - they're the same people who left poems in the OS for people hacking it:
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/02/15/apple-seeks-poetic-justice/
Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
Orders of magnitude? Really? Care to document that?
Okay, but you are not going to like it.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/11/05/google-voice-search-siri-speed-test/