[erulabs]

If it’s going to take general artificial intelligent to get a voice assistant that can remember not one, but two entirely separate cooking timers, then so be it. Imagine the GPUs required!

I’m still baffled at Siri and Google assistant. Virtually zero innovation in a decade. I just want to be able to turn on BBC radio while my hands are wet, is that really so hard?!

[samatman]

> that can remember not one, but two entirely separate cooking timers

You're in luck! Siri will do that right now. Just tried it. Works.

[Rinzler89]

OMG, 2 cooking timers?! Pinnacle tech right there.

Knowing Apple, I was expecting one base timer, with every other timer being a $200 upgrade.

[CharlesW]

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-set-up-and-manage-mu...

“How many timers can you have going at one time? […] …I had 26 timers going at once, and the only reason I didn't have more running was because I got bored.”

[Rinzler89]

I wonder if the maximum number of timers is an 8 bit, 16 bit or 32 bit int.

[MBCook]

Only one horrifically boring way to find out.

[mortenjorck]

That’s not really Apple’s style. More along the lines of “HomePod mini 2 features double the RAM, allowing for exciting new features like multiple kitchen timers. Pre-orders start Friday.”

[bestnameever]

You should be able to do this with Siri. You can use a shortcut if it doesn't work out of the box.

[MBCook]

It works out of the box as of iOS 16 or 17.

“Hey Siri set an egg timer for 4 minutes”

The interface for switching between multiple timers sucks on the watch, the whole app does now. I don’t know how it’s handled on HomePods, though you can see them somewhere in the home app (yeah that’s discoverable).

But it works fine. And the interface is good on the phone.

[ksubedi]

Google Assistant is pretty decent. But as someone who is pretty much locked into the Apple ecosystem, Siri needs a reboot from scratch.

[astrange]

It's been reportedly rewritten from scratch like five times, during which time people have not stopped posting claims that it's exactly the same as it was in 2010.

[astrange]

You mostly think there's no innovation because you speak English.