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kimberly said:

mobird said:

What does it take to invoke Siri to listen in on a complete conversation as it is suggested? Most people know that it is a stretch to get Siri to do the most basic task asked of it.

 

I returned my first HomePod back to Apple for crummy sound (audiophile, my ass) and for the sheer idiocy of Siri on the device. "Hey, Siri, play 'Jump' by Van Halen." Siri: "OK. Here's "---------" by an artist I've never heard of. Couldn't get it to pause/stop if music was turned up. Turned itself on in the middle of the night several times and began playing music. I live alone, the HomePod was far away in a living room corner, my cat doesn't know how to say "Hey, Siri," and there was no intruder. (I was ready; I had my pistol out). Siri in general needs more than a little work. On the HomePod, Siri was the kid who couldn't get past coloring in the lines in kindergarten. So I'm not surprised at what it "accidentally" slurps up; it needs all the help it can get. Stop acting SO SHOCKED, everyone.

No more HomePod for me, thanks just the same. I wasn't impressed with its sound or alleged capabilities. I'm going back to plain ole stereo/mini-stereo for apartment sound. And I've got other ways to get the weather.

The author of this schmooze piece is clearly on drugs.

This iOS update is an abortion, from the Jony-Ives minimalist UI for 2-year-olds that now wastes all kinds of screen space, the elimination of features on down to the baffling requirement to keep signing in to the app with my iCloud password for no reason at all. Oh, and the overall sluggishness that wasn’t present before.

Take a look at the reviews and comments on the Evernote forums as well as in the iTunes App Store. I’m not talking out my a$$.

I was so angry at being served this platter of b.s. (I’ve been a paid subscriber from the beginning) that along with the logs they requested I send them, I promised to quit the service completely and move elsewhere. (For the record, I think OneNote is beyond sucky, so I don’t know what else I’d use. The Apple Notes app is far from up to snuff as well.) Evernote extended my Premium subscription for free for three months. If they don’t have this all settled at the end of that time, I’m gone.

I don’t know why modern software companies don’t do thorough QA and field testing any more, and I’m not going to support their lunacy with my money. They’re charging enough to to have a superb software development teams. Would you buy a car that had this many issues? Their customers are not supposed to be the beta testers unless they signed up to be beta testers. (Ahem, Apple?)

They say they are going to quash all these bugs “in the next release,” but there’s no excuse for this dumpster fire. The Web Clipper extension malfunctions, the macOS current app release is buggy, and now they’ve ruined the iOS app. Their apps used to work smooth as glass, for the most part, so I’m baffled by this gargantuan series of missteps.

BOOOOOOO! Two big thumbs down.