Why doesn't Apple just abandon Siri and start over?
Siri is easily the weakest part of the Apple ecosystem, and it's comical how far behind it is compared to Google Assistant and Alexa. Instead of scrapping the engine and starting over, they release some bull shit complicated mess of an app called Shortcuts. Seriously has anyone tried to use it? It's awful. Apple needs a do-over when it comes to its virtual assistant.
iPhone user here over a decade.. I don’t even remember when I used Siri last time...I have google and Alexa that I tend to use everyday..probably apple should stop investing on Siri, and rather invest those money in improving iPhone battery life..
Lol battery life is the only way they force you to buy the next iPhone. They'll never improve battery life - that'll kill sales
Because you never give up on family, especially those that have been there with you.
Gets worse, now every accidental thing on my iphone ends up with"some things you can ask me"and it's showcasing the worst app on my iPhone. Thank God for latest update and ability to just have Google Assistant respond with okay google
How about maps ? I don’t remember using Apple maps forever
They made improvements to that and sometimes the maps are more accurate. Google has brought me to the wrong block several times and Apple maps got it right.
It does have a nice 3D feature though.
Siri needs to exist for all the ecosystem products as Apple will try to innovate and experiment with a new products eg. Apple Homepod. Integrating Google Assistant or Alexa is against their policy of monetising data.
@op i am curious- would you rather use siri which doesn’t use your private data to answer questions. Or some other assistant which relies on your private data collected over years. Siri IMO is not that great in answering knowledge questions because of lack of data. For anyone trying to use it for productivity (calendar, reminders, messages efc) it works good.
While this might be true, not using Google Assistant won't stop the data collection anyway. You would have to stop using Google services altogether and most of us are as reliant on those as we are on our utilities.
Ask Microsoft how that messaging worked for Bing. Value to users always wins. And neither Microsoft then nor apple now not use data... Just different business models.
The fact that you call shortcuts a bullshit complicated mess of an app makes me seriously question the google hiring bar lol
Apple is just bad at web services. OS and ux design is what they thrive in. The iPhone would not exist without dependencies on services from google and others
Probably because there is no evidence to suggest that the Siri will be radically better if they started over
Presumably that is why John G moved over to Apple. In fact, there were quite a few news articles to that effect when it was announced.