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by ASalazarMX 1334 days ago
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.

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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.

> "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.