So is the software used by Appleinsider to run this site. Can anyone remember when the last time there was an update to the app on the Apple Store?
I looked it up and the answer is that the Appleinsider app was updated over a year ago on the Apple Store...
Any chance that the fine folks at Appleinsider would give the dedicated and loyal subscribers of this site and updated platform to share our insightful thoughts, opinions, ideas, as well as the random snarky comments... PLEASE
This is is an all-too-common lack of appreciation for just how much work is involved in researching, developing, designing, tweaking, refining, and releasing products to the marketplace.
What we are going to see in 4 days was not started one year ago, it was started 2, 3, or 4 years ago, in some form. Apple plays the long game. We only see the finished products when they are released.
Yes. I should have been more clear. My comment was in regard to the Siri upgrades, not the supposed new hardware.
I know a lot of people have said they don’t want it or don’t think Apple needs to make it, but I would love an Echo Dot style device. I have several in my house to control my smart lights & devices and they are always giving me trouble. Telling me the lights are responding or just ignoring my commands completely. Then I’ll grab my phone and ask Siri to do it and it works perfectly. I normally have my iPhone on me, so it’s not a huge issue personally, but for my kids, in-laws, babysitters, etc...it would be nice to have a “Siri Dot” in those rooms to replace the echos.
A bigger feature could be commanding Siri on one device to perform actions on another. One example given is to "Play Taylor Swift on my HomePod," which could be said on an Apple Watch or iPhone remotely and interpreted to control the user's smart speaker at home.
I can assure you that this request will never be made on my Apple Watch or on my iPhone nor in my home on my HomePods...
Exactly. Why would someone want to play music on a device in a location that they're not at (unless it's to scare the dog or troll their kids)? Besides, if the HomePod is within hearing range, why wouldn't one ask it to play the music. I really hope that this is not a "benefit" that Apple promotes because they'll look like idiots.
And Siri needs some basic functionality working better first. If I'm in my car and say "pizza", it shows me pizza places in California when I'm in New York. It know where I am, so that's completely ridiculous. And half the time, if I ask it to phone someone, it picks the wrong person from my address book. I rarely even bother with it anymore. But I will say that when I tested a HomePod (not that I would ever buy one, because I'm a full-fledged stereo system kind of guy), it was very good at recognizing song titles and band names.
Built-in machine translation could enable language interpreting capabilities within Siri, without needing a cellular or other network connection at all, a feature that could be handy for travelers.
I will be rude now
Who the hell care about travelers who go once a year on holiday? Or American users that usually utilize English somehow. But I would use it daily in communication with people all around the world.
iOS is so little helpful in multilingual environment. I occationally use up to six language keyboarders and it is mess.
Built-in machine translation could enable language interpreting capabilities within Siri, without needing a cellular or other network connection at all, a feature that could be handy for travelers.
I will be rude now
Who the hell care about travelers who go once a year on holiday? Or American users that usually utilize English somehow. But I would use it daily in communication with people all around the world.
iOS is so little helpful in multilingual environment. I occationally use up to six language keyboarders and it is mess.
Switching keyboard languages is easy, but for some reason Apple decided to make switching languages with Siri a PITA. Siri has no ability to recognize which language something is written in - that’s not surprising and I don’t really expect that, but when I get a message in another language it would be really helpful to be able to say ‘Siri, read that last message in spanish’ or ‘Siri - switch to French’
A bigger feature could be commanding Siri on one device to perform actions on another. One example given is to "Play Taylor Swift on my HomePod," which could be said on an Apple Watch or iPhone remotely and interpreted to control the user's smart speaker at home.
I can assure you that this request will never be made on my Apple Watch or on my iPhone nor in my home on my HomePods...
Exactly. Why would someone want to play music on a device in a location that they're not at (unless it's to scare the dog or troll their kids)? Besides, if the HomePod is within hearing range, why wouldn't one ask it to play the music. I really hope that this is not a "benefit" that Apple promotes because they'll look like idiots.
And Siri needs some basic functionality working better first. If I'm in my car and say "pizza", it shows me pizza places in California when I'm in New York. It know where I am, so that's completely ridiculous. And half the time, if I ask it to phone someone, it picks the wrong person from my address book. I rarely even bother with it anymore. But I will say that when I tested a HomePod (not that I would ever buy one, because I'm a full-fledged stereo system kind of guy), it was very good at recognizing song titles and band names.
Sounds like the Apple car will be coming in 2021 or the Apple VR glasses. Siri commands: hey Siri, turn on my car and play Taylor Swift.
“An artificial being should not breach the human ethical and moral standards commonly held in its region of operation.”
So Siri in a bigoted country act bigoted, too? In an oppressive regime, it partakes in oppression such as “not to breach the ethical standards commonly held in the region”?
Apple should be VERY careful when they think they can change the fundamental laws of robotics: ethics are not relative, and pretending they are, is selling out ethics to increased revenue and profits, which itself is inherently unethical.
A bigger feature could be commanding Siri on one device to perform actions on another. One example given is to "Play Taylor Swift on my HomePod," which could be said on an Apple Watch or iPhone remotely and interpreted to control the user's smart speaker at home.
I can assure you that this request will never be made on my Apple Watch or on my iPhone nor in my home on my HomePods...
Built-in machine translation could enable language interpreting capabilities within Siri, without needing a cellular or other network connection at all, a feature that could be handy for travelers.
I will be rude now
Who the hell care about travelers who go once a year on holiday? Or American users that usually utilize English somehow. But I would use it daily in communication with people all around the world.
iOS is so little helpful in multilingual environment. I occationally use up to six language keyboarders and it is mess.
Switching keyboard languages is easy, but for some reason Apple decided to make switching languages with Siri a PITA. Siri has no ability to recognize which language something is written in - that’s not surprising and I don’t really expect that, but when I get a message in another language it would be really helpful to be able to say ‘Siri, read that last message in spanish’ or ‘Siri - switch to French’
Switching keyboards is easy until you install third party keyboard that screw keyboard menu up. But that is not the point. Point is that only few apps remember what language you were using in particular conversation so you constantly wrote on wrong keyboard or have to switch all the time. And I see that as Apple fault in not well set guidelines for developers and requiring them to pass to AppStore.
And I do not think that is is that difficult to recognize language, especially for AI so no idea why Siri does not. I would also want use Siri in English to create message and then tell her to launch dictating in my language. To much work for AI i guess.
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I looked it up and the answer is that the Appleinsider app was updated over a year ago on the Apple Store...
Any chance that the fine folks at Appleinsider would give the dedicated and loyal subscribers of this site and updated platform to share our insightful thoughts, opinions, ideas, as well as the random snarky comments...
PLEASE
And Siri needs some basic functionality working better first. If I'm in my car and say "pizza", it shows me pizza places in California when I'm in New York. It know where I am, so that's completely ridiculous. And half the time, if I ask it to phone someone, it picks the wrong person from my address book. I rarely even bother with it anymore. But I will say that when I tested a HomePod (not that I would ever buy one, because I'm a full-fledged stereo system kind of guy), it was very good at recognizing song titles and band names.
Who the hell care about travelers who go once a year on holiday? Or American users that usually utilize English somehow. But I would use it daily in communication with people all around the world.
iOS is so little helpful in multilingual environment. I occationally use up to six language keyboarders and it is mess.
So Siri in a bigoted country act bigoted, too? In an oppressive regime, it partakes in oppression such as “not to breach the ethical standards commonly held in the region”?
Apple should be VERY careful when they think they can change the fundamental laws of robotics: ethics are not relative, and pretending they are, is selling out ethics to increased revenue and profits, which itself is inherently unethical.