[z9znz]

I use Siri to set a timer. That's it. And I do it by holding my power button to activate her.

My only other use of Siri usually involved phrases like "stop", "go away", "close", "fucking close!", "you stupid fcking * ** close the **** thing" when Siri would pop up out of nowhere and interrupt whatever I was actually doing. I had it turned off, but occasionally somehow it's back on, listening.

Other actual attempts at using it have been no better than 50% effective, so it wasn't worth the trouble. And I was speaking very clearly and articulately.

I've observed a friend (a Googler who had Google-fied his house) have frequent useless conversations with the Google assistant, so maybe 50% is the best you can hope for. No experience with Alexa, but I'd be too scared to even turn it on; I might end up with three refrigerators delivered the next day.

[jdwithit]

Same here. Even that simple task (setting a timer) only has about a 75% success rate for me. The other 25% it spins for 30 seconds then says "hmm something went wrong". Trying for anything more complex, even playing a song or album, is just asking for trouble. I honestly can't believe how bad Siri is despite years of development.

I do have an older iPhone 10 and maybe it's just not up to the task of running Siri? But if so they should disable it rather than put on this extremely amateur feeling show.

For what it's worth we have an Echo Dot in the house and I find it to be both orders of magnitude more responsive and more likely to actually do what I asked for. No unwanted refrigerators have arrived as of yet.

[concinds]

I use Type to Siri on my Mac; all I ever use it for is "Play [song]". 70-80% of the time it goes: "something went wrong..."

When I try typing "Play [song] on repeat", it never understands that; it plays it, but not on repeat.

There's zero excuse due to mishearing me, since I'm typing everything. Siri is just defective, and I think it's a great measure of how dysfunctional Apple and poorly-run is. Why are all of Apple's AI and online-service efforts amateur hour?

[ASalazarMX]

My only usage of it is as a push-button dictionary/translator, "define x", "how do you say x in Spanish". For every other use I've found it extremely limited, you have to ask the right questions, otherwise it defaults to a web search on my wife's phone, even if she's not in the room.

How, after all these years, is it still so stunted? There are Telegram bots with better interaction.

[z9znz]

I almost got excited. "how do you say x in Spanish", what a great use of Siri.

"How do you say Thank You in Dutch?" => "I can't translate into Dutch yet."

Oh come on, there are only half a dozen online translators which can do it.

Some mid-upper level manager in Apple should be ashamed. And every exec above them in the line to the top.

[ASalazarMX]

> "How do you say Thank You in Dutch?" => "I can't translate into Dutch yet."

Oh no, that's awful. I mostly translate between Spanish and English, it didn't occur to me that Siri was less capable than Apple's own Translator app, it makes no sense.