brian green

racerhomie3 said:

If you can’t use common sense with your electronics, you don’t deserve one .

Oh we can’t possibly hold people accountable for their idiot choices like sitting on their phone.  Americans can’t take responsibility for their choices, so they have to sue a corporation over it.  It’s this same cry baby mentality that has lead us to having insanely long warning labels and lawsuits over everything.  It’s ridiculous.

So far, only PowerPC and SPARC chips haven’t been mentioned.  Good times.

macxpress said:

Looks great! I want to see it in the late spring when all of the foliage is grown up and hopefully all of the grass is also fully grown. 

I still want to see a complete documentary of how this came to fruition, from planning/design, to building and its challenges, to completion with a tour of the buildings. 

I think it'd be awesome if Apple makes a documentary on the building of the campus and the transition it took to get there. I'd buy it, in HDR 4k of course.

loopless said:

You all realize the main reason Siri is not as good as Google is that Apple anonymizes all the Siri data. Unlike google who stores all your queries in Voice and Audio activity so it just knows a lot more about you....
Apple is taking care of your privacy and compromising Siri to protect your anonymity.

While we all understand those points, there are a lot of things people are complaining about with Siri (which isn't specific to HomePod I might add), that can be dramatically improved, and yet, for reasons unknown to us all, have not been.  Why Apple isn't expending more resources toward Siri is anyones guess.  Some say that Apple doesn't actually care about Siri.  Others suggest that they provide just enough to get by, yet never once going above and beyond.  I think it's somewhere in the middle.  They've been gut punched recently with all of the security breaches, and the latest iOS code reveal by someone certainly isn't helping matters any.  I think there's a whole lot of people looking through everything to find all the stuff they have yet to find, and it's taking away from improvements to the things we all want.  While we do all want to have secure devices and Macs, I think a lot of us are extremely disappointed that Apple hasn't made Siri far more useful than it is.  I pointed out in another post that I'm extremely upset that when asking Siri a question, I don't get a verbal response, rather I get websites containing the information.  Do you have any idea how pissed off that makes me?  I didn't ask for a website.  I don't care about the website.  I wanted the information I specifically asked for.  Try this sometime, just to be as pissed off as I am, "Hey Siri, when is the next tour available at the silver mine in Tombstone, Arizona?"  Did I ask for a website anywhere in that question?  FSCK NO!  I asked for a time.  A specific time.  Did I get that from Siri?  No.  In my opinion, Apple needs to get off their asses and make Siri usable for people who actually want to interact with it.  Bringing up a list of websites rather than the information I asked for doesn't make it beneficial to use, it just pisses me off.  

This brings up something I’ve had a problem with regarding asking Siri a question, and getting back, “Here’s what I found on the web.”  And then I go into an expletive laced tirade.  I didn’t ask for you to pull up a google page, nor did I ask you to find me some stupid list.  I asked for, and expect, an actual answer! Why bother showing me a website and all when I could have Googled that myself?  If I ask a question, I want a verbal answer back.  Until that happens every single time, I can’t use Siri because I get too annoyed as BS websites as answers.  Fix it!