[aemreunal]

Same here. I'm really looking forward to the tell-all book in a decade or two about what really went on with Siri and why it's still so so bad.

Not asking for miracles or "general-purpose AI" here, just decent speed, dependable consistency and general reliability. For example, Siri will correctly set a timer 90-95% of the time when you say a duration to it, like "5 minutes", but just sometimes, it doesn't understand what I'm talking about and gives an error speech.

[sgt]

I literally just asked Siri: "set a timer for 5 minutes". She responded with: "I set your alarm for 5AM".

So .. frustrating.

Surely there are Apple employees reading HN? This is an embarrassment.

[aemreunal]

They don't even need to read HN, I'm wondering if they even use the thing at all! Same goes for pretty much all of their software...

[sgt]

I am a pretty big Apple user and I am mostly satisfied with the quality of e.g macOS, iOS etc. Been a "power user" on OS X / macOS for almost two decades.