buckkalu

Love the new gold colour by the way.

I went to the Apple store to check out the max.  Nice but I wish it was still like a bigger phone.  I have a 7 plus but could go bigger in size.  I understand the screen is bigger but a 0.25 of an inch wider and 0.5 inches longer is ideal for me.  My 2 cents.

ireland said:

gutengel said:

Google's presentation was rather impressive and creepy. Apple really needs step up their game, I haven't seen a presentation from them that gets me excited in a long time. Privacy and security are great, but there should be some compromises.

None. Privacy and security isn’t the issue. Siri sucks in many trivial ways such as keeping conversations going, understand relevance and context, “intelligence” and voice recognition.

Simple things such as apostrophies it adds stop it from understand and recognising whole sentences. Which has nothing to do with privacy or security:



Or how about if I ask I a math question by only use a measurement for one of the numbers—it cannot assume I’m looking for a distance related answer, or at a minimum ask me back if I was distance or area. It can only kick me to the web:



Again, not privacy or security. And don’t get me started on voice recognition. Sometimes Ok, sometimes incredibly bad and frustrating. And hasn’t improved any in the last few years at understanding me. Even when it became tuned for my country it improved zero in understanding me and my accent isn’t that strong and I don’t speak quickly.

Also worth pointing out I’ve given many specific feedbacks about Siri, only to see them go unfixed.

Could not have said it better myself.  I don’t have an accent and it doesn’t recognize basic stuff.  Recently I asked Siri to call a close friend while driving.  Then it said “do you want to confirm so and so is your mother?”  WTF????  It’s horrible.

Why is it that every time some complains about something Apple does not do well, they get attached like Apple can do no wrong?  I have been using Apple products for years and we have many in the house but Siri and maps SUCK!  I have so many issues with both it’s not funny.  I drive a lot for work and try to be hands free as much as possible but Siri and maps are so frustrating that I am surprised my veins haven’t popped.  Just earlier today I was looking for a particular location.  I was on the road and knew it was a few kilometres ahead and asked Siri for directions so I would not miss it.  Sure enough it gave me another of their locations instead that was over 30 minutes away.  I tried again and mentioned the street name this time and it gave gave me ice cream stores I had never heard of.   Many times I will ask it for directions with an address and it gives me options in the US even though I am in Toronto.  It’s f$$$ing ridiculous how bad they both are.  After using Siri since inception it seems it does not know any of my tendencies.  It’s a frickin joke.  Surprisingly I haven’t gotten into an accident yet when I get frustrated as it happens almost on a daily basis.