clarker99

My gripe with the 2018 iPad is that it is not the iPad Pro. 

Future article: 

My gripe with the iPad Pro 2018 is that it costs double the iPad.

patchythepirate said:

clarker99 said:

Soli said:

I see no nail in a coffin for HomePod at this point, but Apple is going to have to fix whatever internal issues they're having with their Siri team(s) if they want to compete with the major players.

What do we want Siri to be? Apple’s version of a voice asst is going to be different to Amazon/Google. Amazon needs Alexa to sell more products. Google? They need to surveillance you and mine your data to sell it to make money. Having a voice asst in people’s homes is vital to the future of both companies. 

I have never got the sense that Siri was supposed to be a money making tool for Apple. So, there approach will be different. Esp with security and privacy a top priority.

Idk, I think we are way to early in the voice revolution to be saying Apple are doomed. When reading objective reviews you get people saying that all voice asst’s are flaky. Yes, alexa and google are better but still have plenty of flaws.

I'd like Siri to be decently competent at the basic functionality that was promised at its launch over 6 years ago. Then we can get existential about what Siri should be.

Security and privacy are such pathetic excuses for siri's numerous and persistent failings, including lack of basic functionality.

And no, Apple is nowhere close to being doomed, but it's not a great sign that Apple, and siri apologists, could have their head in the sand for over 6 YEARS regarding a key feature, and increasingly essential component of the Apple ecosystem.

FWIW, I have a homepod, love the hardware, plan to get more in the future, despite the fact that siri is fucking terrible, and that I cringe every time I try any new siri querry/command.

 Security and privacy are legit concerns but It doesnt make sense that you cant set multiple timers or that Siri is different on each Apple device.

I am guessing selling 200+ iPhones a year has not helped Apple focus on Siri (mac mini or mac pro etc).

Personally, I dont have the day-to-day gripes with siri on the homepod that I do on the phone/mac/watch.

I guess I just dont understand what the general public are expecting from Siri or Alexa or Google? I have zero problems playing music, controlling homekit, checking weather, checking travel time to work, doing math, setting a timer and sending messages.

Now I dont use Spotify or 3rd party apps or ask trivia questions via siri. I do wish that I could say to my HomePod ‘Hey Siri, play Star Wars: The Last Jedi on my Apple TV’ or ‘Hey siri, switch Living Room Apple TV to play through HomePod’.  Ordering a pizza or a Lyft or making a restaurant reservation via Siri would be great.

cropr said:

hmurchison said:

SendMcjak said:

zone said:

... If this was not an Apple product people would be saying how great it is!

HomePod is a well-engineered product with fairly poor market fit + a terrible launch strategy.

The market fit is phenomenal.   What the HomePod is supposed to do is be the multiroom audio controller for 
a wide variety of vendor products.  As of now the system with the most vendor support is DTS Play-fi and it's 
software is some of the weakest out there but it's nice to have a choice of hardware.  

The HomePods value increases sharply when we understand how many existing products can be upgrade to Airplay 2 and 
how the benefits of audio support in HomeKit play out.   Right now it's hard to see the  value over a more mature platform 
like Sonos. 

How can a very expensive family device have a decent value if half of my family cannot use it because they have chosen to use Android phones and if it has a very crappy voice assistant?

Are we new to Apple’s walled garden ecosystem?

Soli said:

I see no nail in a coffin for HomePod at this point, but Apple is going to have to fix whatever internal issues they're having with their Siri team(s) if they want to compete with the major players.

What do we want Siri to be? Apple’s version of a voice asst is going to be different to Amazon/Google. Amazon needs Alexa to sell more products. Google? They need to surveillance you and mine your data to sell it to make money. Having a voice asst in people’s homes is vital to the future of both companies. 

I have never got the sense that Siri was supposed to be a money making tool for Apple. So, there approach will be different. Esp with security and privacy a top priority.

Idk, I think we are way to early in the voice revolution to be saying Apple are doomed. When reading objective reviews you get people saying that all voice asst’s are flaky. Yes, alexa and google are better but still have plenty of flaws.

99% of Apple users probably dont know the HomePod exists. It launched quietly in 3 English only speaking countries. No one except Apple know their projections vs. actual sales. Even if they sold 2-3million in the 1st year with limited country availability, limited feature rollout, no 3rd party apps, no ‘ports or bluetooth’, and everyones fav whipping horse, Siri, being so ‘awful’ (🙄) they would have like 5% of the voice asst market share (I thought I seen that their were 40m voice asst sold last yr? Please correct if I am wrong). This when Apple doesnt even try to market this as a voice asst. 

The constant ‘Apple is doomed’ narrative is just straight up click bait.