Siri is antiquated. Despite receiving updates for compatibility and interoperability and a couple new 'keywords', it hasn't seen meaningful, significant technological improvement in the better part of a decade. It was never particularly good - Google's "OK Google" ecclipsed it out of the gate, and even Alexa is generally better despite the insidious "would you like to buy some credits to make me useful?" personality flaw.
In our house, we've got to disable Siri on most devices to make the Homepods pick up th
I've never used any of these, but Siri (and Cortana) are ultimately just voices. If they need updating, wouldn't it make more sense to swap out the backend then to get rid of the brand entirely? Siri, at least, is widely recognized and a pretty valuable brand. If Apple wants to get on the generative AI train, then do that and have Siri read off the results. Then they can run an add campaign about how much smarter she's gotten. They can show an iPhone going to school, with upbeat music and a inspirational li
Not because it's great - it isn't - but it's an important interface for a number of devices including Watch, HomePods and AirPods. Voice isn't too useful on a desktop where your hands are hovering over a keyboard already but it's critical for many devices Apple makes.
Siri is antiquated. Despite receiving updates for compatibility and interoperability and a couple new 'keywords', it hasn't seen meaningful, significant technological improvement in the better part of a decade. It was never particularly good - Google's "OK Google" ecclipsed it out of the gate, and even Alexa is generally better despite the insidious "would you like to buy some credits to make me useful?" personality flaw.
In our house, we've got to disable Siri on most devices to make the Homepods pick up th
Not because it's great - it isn't - but it's an important interface for a number of devices including Watch, HomePods and AirPods. Voice isn't too useful on a desktop where your hands are hovering over a keyboard already but it's critical for many devices Apple makes.
Apple needs to improve Siri not shut it down.
Note the wording "...as a standalone app is deprecated."
Microsoft might be planing on fully integrating Cortana into Windows like they did with Internet Explorer/Edge so the user can't remove it.
Microsoft has a long history of taking away User and Admin choices and control because "Microsoft knows better what the User really wants"
"Here's what I found on the web about 'take a screenshot'".