[melling]

They aren’t going to iterate it into a $30-$50 product.

Amazon and Google are going to sell hundreds of millions of their devices, which will allow them to improve their AI globally.

Personally, I think the Dot is smarter than Siri. I still try to throw a few questions to my iPhone and Apple Watch, but like Apple Maps, it’s a less than satisfying experience.

I need to get my girlfriend the Echo so I can stop the “Hey Siri, ...Hey Siri, ...Hey Siri” moments.

[threeseed]

Siri is available on Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS and Macs.

So Apple also will sell hundreds of millions of devices and allow them to improve their AI globally.

[draugadrotten]

I can't wait. Siri "AI" is one of my biggest tech disappointments. I was expecting Apple to data mine the millions of voices and questions they got and teach Siri new things every week. Years later, Siri still can't understand that I want to call back my missed phone calls.

[jandrese]

When Siri first came out I wondered if it would be able to improve upon the voice macros that were built into MacOS for years.

Turns out the answer was no. Worse, you can't even get a list of everything Siri knows how to do, so you have to guess and hope she doesn't just stick the query into Google again. So she's only useful for demos and for the two or three things you remember she can do. Apple never even gave us a way to define our own macros. There should have been a whole section on the app store for Siri macros you could install for various interests. She can't even launch apps! It's so ridiculous.

[brandon272]

One area where I've noticed improvement in Siri is that it makes far fewer errors in recognizing what I am saying lately.

A year ago, I would fight with her constantly in my car on my way to work. "Hey Siri, play playlist iPhone 3" .. "Sorry, I can't find playlist iPhone Free" .. That type of thing doesn't happen anymore, for me, at least.

Can't speak to her overall capability to do other things, but in the car this morning I asked her to "Play Spotify" and she had no idea what I was saying - or at least pretended to not have any idea!

[y_molodtsov]

Thankfully Apple recently hired a person who helped built the Assistant in Google to work on Siri and other initiatives.

[tpush]

Apple already sold hundreds of millions of devices and their AI is comparatively awful.

[jacksmith21006]

But estimate is 2 million Home pods.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/13/kgi-homepod-sales-cheaper-mod... KGI: Apple could sell just 2 million HomePods across all of 2018, company 'mulls' low-cost model

[melling]

I guess I wasn’t clear enough.

I own all of those devices. I talk to my Alexa more than all those devices combined.

[innagadadavida]

It is also so much easier to throw/recycle a $30-40 product and upgrade to something nicer. This is one of the product strategy Apple executed with phones.