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  • Siri shortcuts in iOS 12 deliver a macro system to help automate your tasks

    Still Hot garbage.

    Why oh why are they not listening to thier users, the market, thier competitors or all the people that have died when Siri let them down in an emergency. Oh thats right - they’re dead. Who would know. 

    Buying a company to strip it for thier macros but not  improving the abilities of the mic (or at least matching the Apple  watch) nor utilizing the immense leverage they hold over the oems that rely on Bluetooth WITHOUT THIER MAGIC CHIP (u know every car and non Beats earphone that’s made) is really shitty business. 

    They love themselves too much and the marketing they wield has poisoned the look aid. 

    The future is an OS u don’t need anything to use but your voice and we’re years from this but how do you win a race with your feet tied together by an invisible cord (privacy) and with the other runners already running freed from said cord. 

    You cant. 

    This is Windows 95 and MS’s OEM blind dominance over Mac All over again. They were wrong then and they’re blinded by thier love of themselves all over again. 

    Years away but an impossible lead they’ve let lesser more hungry competitors have over them.

    While they took courageously took away a gead phone jack or used forced upgrades to build out the utilization of thier OS while hoping no one discovered they were (rightfully tinkering) with battery’s.

    surprise and deceit are not the same thing 

    and what happens when there isn’t any real surprise anymore? 

    Just deception oh I’m sorry - marketing
    patchythepirate
  • iOS 12 'doubles down' on performance for iPhone and iPad

    MisterKit said:
    Looking forward to see how it runs on mini 2. Any boost in performance will be welcome.
    For Christ sake go get an iPad that isn’t 7 years old
    toysandmeSgt Storms(trooper)jony0
  • Apple's Siri could decline phone calls with context-sensitive text responses in the future...

    Siri is 6 year old hot garbage tech. You can’t shine a turd.
    bdkennedy1002
  • Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought another 75M Apple shares in Q1

    ascii said:
    Is that good or bad? Buffett buys sensible companies. But as a tech nerd I want innovative companies even if they don't balance the books! I guess it's good if you're an investor and bad if you're a fan.
    This was in my Twitter timeline:

    Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias)
    Tim Cook’s determination to run Apple in a boring, Buffett-friendly value-stock kind of way is unfortunate for America and the world imo.

    He’s got a point. But also maybe when you get so big it’s inevitable that you become boring.
    Honest to God the company mints money. What the hell is wrong with this people? Clearly we like the things they sell... but if you just liked money and needed a safe money tree thats always will grow money.... why is not that considered innovative or sexy? When did money trees become boring ? Jeff Bezos just did an interview where he denigrated Amazon for his true love... Blue Origin.

    Blue Origin will NEVER launch an astronaut with NASA in its current state. How SpaceX will do it is nothing short of miraculous and if Elon weren’t so Bipolar perhaps Tesla might also make money too but not even Musk shits on his own company in the press... The flame thrower thing is ... unseemly for a rocket company. Lithium dude. Make cars, shut up and find lithium. That’s how Tesla moves forward. 

    But the entire financial industry takes one analyst report and a factory report from Samsung Display (which has no skin in the game right? - LG your up!) adds Scotch Tape and glue and some dipshit tool in a bad suit gets on Cramer or some other horse shit news outlet and tells everyone the worlds first Trillion dollar company is now garbage because thier 1000 phone is out of the reach of consumers... the previous iPhone cost 800. No one that uses one can live without one and 200 financed on a plan it coffee money.... including hundreds of analysts typing this conjecture literally on an actual iphone x.

    It should be illegal. And there should be oversight and certification or at best some accountable skill in these professions. This is people retirement money for Christ sakes. 

    Why is Bloomberg so negative on Apple anyway ? What is the animus? Boring is awesome. I want a working iPhone with iterative useful additions not an cut rate iris scanner and a launcher ... what the f* is a launcher anyway.... aren’t all OS launchers ? Why do apps need a second starting or sorting place. Just open. No more conversation. Just apps that open and hardware that i can safely allow to run my life. 

    That’s awesome, not boring. Bloomberg and all taking this cyclical and always proven false narrative is what’s actually bad for America. And Obesity... Gymkit i believe in you !!

    We need less services or more building Wall Street. Amazon will never run the world. It’s been a year and you cant even scan a amazon gift card or print a coupon in a Whole Foods. It’s literally a PR purchase. Whole Foods is still using Instacart to ship and deliver and AMAZON is supposed to be King of Shipping. 

    It seems to me thats an actual fail. And who makes money with Amazon. I love Alexa and she kicks Siris ass like an Olympian playing a JV high school kid but I wouldn’t give her my retirement money. Alexa tell Bloomberg to indict the entire staff of Piper Jaffrey for Securities Fraud and Stock manipulation and what’s in my flash briefing?”

    She can do two things now.

    Siri ? Wow you saved a life this week thats sweet... how lives were not saved when your owners called out in thier last moments only to you buy them movie tickets or give a sport scorer? Bet its more than one. Bet its lots more than one. 

    Siri can kind of do one and never in the car.

    Boo on Wall Street. Boooooo on Siri. 
    carnegie
  • Apple's Siri history was plagued by infighting, mistakes and developer alienation, report ...

    thrang said:
    Truth or click-bait, none of this matters, as the need/desire to speak commands to your electronics is so miniscule compared to the totality of all other methods of inputs and interactions. Saying Amazon is winning is like saying a team than went on a 6 game winning streak in May is destined to win the World Series. It's soooo early in the "season" - and I suspect voice recognition, while increasing in importance over time, will remain niche compared type, touch, and perhaps much more advanced forms of AI interpretation (location, proximity, body, facial, eye analysis, sensors, habit analysis..) Part of the limitation for wider home adoption currently is feedback is very limited (assuming one does not want to keep picking up their iPhone or iPad). But an Apple TV, which can become the visual side of an enriched Siri response, is very intriguing.
    Everyone seems to believe Amazon and Alexa have already won The World Series of Smartphone Assistants and Siri has come in last place, far, far behind. That's the mindset that everyone believes, so it might as well be true. You won't find many Youtube videos asking "Does Alexa suck?" No. There are plenty of videos asking "Does Siri suck?" As far as Wall Street is concerned, Alexa is the big winner and Siri is nothing but a bad joke. I just feel Apple could have done a lot better with Siri than let it become the laughingstock of smart assistants. As Apple fans were always laughing at how low Amazon profits were, Apple should probably have been using all of its profits to build Siri into a super-AI assistant. No company should sit on hundreds of billions of dollars and allow any product of theirs to become the worst in class. Amazon seems to be beating Apple in everything when there should never have been a good reason for something like that to happen.
    That’s because she sucks fool. The fan boy stockholder alligiance up on this blog is tired. Complain. Make them fix it she sucks and now tanked a product line. HomePod is doomed so long as Siri is this bad. At any price point. 
    entropys