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2017 is a major year for Siri....

I have heard some blogger say this every year since 2012
Maybe Siri works in the US. In Europe it is worse than an abomination. Like Apple it is monolingual. This is great if you only read English watch English live in an English country and listen or speak english. The minute that any of these change, Siri becomes pointless.
It cannot handle my non English names and addresses. I can't even train it to say Uli in English. I cannot use it in CarPlay because it cannot read German, understand German streets Blablabla. So I stopped using CarPlay altogether and went back to navigon. I cannot use it in AppleTV as it cannot understand any movies other than English and then only some, I can use only one function on my watch... set timer. Anything else is a joke. Using it on Music is diabolical. It understands madonna but not architecture and waves. Let alone any music that isn't in English. I cannot even contemplate using EarPods. Oh by the way, on my iMac it is useless. English only.

of course I could switch the language to German, which means switching all my device languages too. And then I would have the reverse issue. It doesn't understand English. And this is the thing in Europe, every country is multilingual! I know that is difficult to understand in the US, but that is the reality.

Everytime Tim Cook stands in front of an audience and brags about Siri being correct 94% of the time I want to scream for proof! It doesn't even work for 6% of the time for me.

So please spare me the 2017 is the year for Siri bullshit. It's a dog waiting to be put out of its misery. The really interesting thing is that since 2011 apple hasn't been able to make siri work, and they want to crack autonomous driving by 2019???? That is hilarious!