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Apple TV+ is losing billions of dollars -- as planned and expected
I was very skeptical when the service first came out. However after watching Servant, Silo, For All Mankind, Foundation, and Severance I’m pretty satisfied with my subscription. Wasn’t a huge fan of Invasion though.
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Everyone is a loser in the Apple Intelligence race
No offense but it sounds like you’ve never used Alexa or Google Assistant on a regular basis. I use Alexa to control some of my smart lights and Ring cameras (something I wish HomeKit was compatible with) and the response time for my lights are about a half a second quicker than Siri controlling my lights in my other room (when it works). Not ground breaking but definitely noticeable. So yeah it’s more than just shopping. Im also interested in where your getting google assistant “probably” giving wrong information. I can understand bias considering this is an apple site but in my experience that just flat out incorrect.Wesley Hilliard said:
That's quite the exaggeration. Siri has fundamentally changed quite a bit over the years and is much more useful than its initial release. The only thing that's been static for 14 years is the criticism of Siri.Rogue01 said:
Because for 14 years, they have done nothing to improve Siri. So don't hold your breath for anything special with Apple Intelligence. Currently, it offers nothing to help anyone, except for making creepy images in Image Playground.Xed said:
Why exactly don't you think Apple can do it?Cesar Battistini Maziero said:Apple needs to add the other big ones, Gemini, Grok etcAs they clearly are not capable to do it themselves.Apple really needs to shake thing up.
It may have its blind spots, but when you use Siri the way it is meant to be used, it's quite good. Running shortcuts, controlling my home, opening apps on Vision Pro, controlling timers, fetching factual information, etc. Because of Shortcuts Siri is programmable by users. I personally would have a worse experience trying to use Google Assistant or Alexa because they have different skill sets. Google is best at (probably wrong) info, Alexa is best at shopping.
Siri is best at knowing the user, learning from their personal data, and using that to get things done. And it's been great for me even if I'm what you'd call a Siri unicorn. I've heard the complaints about Siri and just encounter those issues funny enough.
As someone that has used all 3 assistants Siri is definitely more limited in its skill sets in my experience compared to the other two. Considering Apples privacy stance though thats to be expected. Siri is good at what it does assuming its a simple request.
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Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected
My experience using Siri to control home hasn’t been pleasant at all. For my smart lights I have a scene called twinkling midnight sky, when I tell Siri to set twinkling midnight sky it sets an alarm for 12 AM with the tag twinkling. It used to work most of the time, now it rarely works correctly.loopless said:You guys don’t reflect what most people use Siri for. 99% of people use Siri to dictate text and read messages or emails, and get directions using maps- and it’s damn good at that. I don’t find google much better with understanding speech, if at all. And the second use case is to control a smart home. For both of these use cases Siri works great. If you want to ask idiotic questions about how many super bowls some team won, then go ask google. For complex questions, you want to have an interaction with ChatGPT but that’s a separate way to work with AI, and not really what Siri is intended for. Apple intelligence is not Siri. All the other tools like summaries and email categories are actually super useful. Apple has to build out massive AI compute farms and integrate Siri into iOS and apps, that takes time. And Apple likes to get things right.
