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iOS_Guy80 said:

VictorMortimer said:

Sounds like the problem is people not keeping iPhones going.

But iPads are just toys anyway, as long as they keep playing solitaire there's no need to replace them.

I've got an original mini that's absolutely great for a couple 32-bit games that never got updated.

I’m enjoying using the new M4, Apple Pro 13 inch toy.

dutchlord said:

Apple has the wrong priorities when focussing on speed/performance. I never had a slow Apple device, even after years of usage. Ipad hardware is not the problem. iPadOS is the limiting factor. Multitasking and the file system is a joke. Adding a calculator and presenting it as a big thing is pathetic. Should be there years ago. I came to a point to prefer to have a MBP with touchscreen running MacOS as the better option. Apple is not serious about iPad as a daily worktool. Its more like a fancy consumer device. Not for business workflows or content creation.

chasm said:

Maybe I’m the anomaly, but Siri has always worked very well for me for the basic reminder, calendar, weather conditions, currency exchange/math problems, calling, texting, “what song is this” and similar “life organization” tasks I throw at it. The only and only thing that drove me up a wall with Siri was working out the exact wording needed to get it to play my college radio station.

Finally, I discovered that “Play WPRK 91.5 FM on Tune In” was the magic combination of words that worked every time. If you left out any part of this phrase, it would mysteriously play an unrelated rap track of some kind, which was infuriating!

So I am in no way suggesting that Siri is somehow secretly better than the other vocal assistants in this area, or that the rest of you must be “using it wrong,” as I have no direct experience with any other vocal assistants. I just know that Siri works pretty well for me most of the time, but my requests are not very far-ranging and random, either.

That aside, I have noticed in the past few months that Siri is already getting “smarter.” On the rare occasion I need to venture outside of the categories above, I get a lot less “here’s something I found on the web” or some similar non-answer than I did before.

The other day, I idly asked “what is the chemical composition of steel?” and to my astonishment it gave me the correct one-sentence summary answer.

So at least SOME “AI” is already at work, and none of my Apple devices are recent, so it’s not just doing this on new items.