DAalseth

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Steve Jobs

I have increasingly been feeling that Apple under Tim Cook has forgotten this. 

9secondkox2 said:

It’s not mandatory to purchase iCloud storage. 

And competitor services exist from Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, etc. 

The point being that yes you can connect your Mac or iPhone or iPad to these services, but can you set Photos to backup and share through them? I mean natively within the app. I write a lot in Pages. Can you use one of these services as the default saving location so you can share the files between devices as it is with iCloud? I don’t think it is. If it is let me know, I’d love to use some of these less expensive services, but I haven’t found a way. If you can’t then Apple is being a bit heavy handed. 

Sure you can link to these and other cloud services, but if everything you want to do is kludgy you are limited as to how you can use them, then you really don’t have access. 

Rogue01 said:

AppleZulu said:

Siri is currently better than the peanut gallery claims. 

No, it is not.

Siri, play Tom Petty.  Siri: Playing music by MC Hammer.
Siri, play 'name of playlist'.  Siri: Sorry, I can't do that.  Siri cannot even play a playlist because she can't figure it out.
and my favorite
Siri, give me directions to 'address'.  Siri: I cannot do that while you are driving.  WHAT?  That is the whole point of Siri and that is the message that came up in CarPlay.

Sorry, but Siri is not any better than day one.  So many basic things that Siri can't do.  Here is what I found on the internet.  Yeah, whatever Siri.  And the AppleTV Siri is even worse, and so is the Mac Siri. You don't even know what to ask it because Siri is different on all devices.

I don’t use Siri to play music. Honestly the Music App is such a mess that I don’t hold it against Siri that it can’t work it right. But for basic queries, time, weather, when X team is playing, setting timers, that sort of thing it works very well, far FAR better than it did the first few years. so it has gotten better. 

Apple trying to develop something outside of their core competency area where other companies already have a substantial lead. What could possibly go wrong with the AppleCarRobot project