Hi Siri: Something Horrible About Siri

Hey Siri: You're Horrible

Hi fiends welcome to my website today  i'm gonna tell you guys a poorly kept secret about Siri she sucks and this isn't like a knock on the iPhone in general I'm a big fan of the iPhone in fact I'm using the iPhone I enjoy my iPhone what I don't always enjoy is Siri to put that in context Siri is okay on its own so your compared to the competition still has ways to go so Siri actually debuted in 2011 with the iPhone 4s it was until July the next year that Google now came about which start answering questions doing assistent like things they started split that out into it's now the Google assistant but even now in early 2018 Siri is still incredibly far behind now Suri still has some uses I think it's incredibly good at dictation she's good at reminders she's got a calendar as good at telling jokes and occasionally singing you a bedtime story but you look at it apples Apple so to speak what the two can do side by side you start to see how far behind Siri is is message to apples there are a few small steps Apple could take to really bring Siri up to parity but we have with Google assistant let me show what I'm talking about.

Inconsistent

So the first thing the Lynx was Siri is the experiences inconsistent across devices if you're using Siri on a home pod for example it does a really good job of being contextually aware of what you're talking about if you're talking about an actor you could ask what movie he was in and it'll know that experience is not the same on the iPhone it's different on an Apple watch you don't get the same Siri on every device that's confusing and ultimately ends up being annoying I blitz focus on the iPhone I mean contextually aware I mean the phone's going to know the context of what you're talking about so let me show you hey Siri who is Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant played shooting guard in the NBA between 1996 and 2015 he played for the Los Angeles Lakers how many championships did he win here at Kobe Bryant's career stats in the NBA so protects Lee here Siri didn't know who you're talking about it but couldn't find the answer sometimes she knows sometimes not the results are just frustratingly inconsistent

Another big area of deficiency is knowing what's on your screen if I'm on Safari and I go to Lakers.com and I ask Siri when the next game is it's gonna pull up a list of sports and I have to go through grain early to eventually go to basketball Lakers and then find out about the game so if we're on Chrome on an Android device and I just asked when the next game is Google is going to contextually know the screen that I am on and I'll tell me when the next Laker game is that is HUGE step into textual awareness and it makes the AI again more conversational more useful it knows what you were doing like a real person a real assistant who's kind of sitting in the room with you so contextual awareness is one thing and I'm sure you guys experienced this but what about general questions I can ask Siri when the NFL Draft is for example and I'll tell me what it found on the web if I go ahead and ask Google when the NFL Draft is it'll give me the exact dates and here's where things get interesting at least on the surface do you think that Google was way far ahead all it's doing is reading you the results that it found on the web what Siri is not doing is reading you the results that it you guessed it found on the web it would just read what it's finding it would bring it up to pretty close to parity with Google but it's not so it makes it less useful if you are in the car if you can't read if you can't look down if you're visually impaired a lot of reasons that you can't click an article and wait for to load to get your answer Google just simply reads it to you that is one of a ton of examples I could have picked but this is something that happens all the time another example that happened to me I'm a DirecTV now subscriber they mentioned that sometime in spring their beta was going to go public so I wanted to know what months were spring Siri just be me a search on the web and Google told me the exact month those questions those things that you would ask a person ask an assistant are far and above better on what you get on Apple and mostly it's because it just read you the stinkin answer Apple already has there this isn't to say that Siri is a horrible assistant like I said it's good at a lot of things it's just not as good as the competition and it should be apples got incredible honor resources and they're touting Siri this incredible product they're putting Siri front and center on the home pod you see Siri iPhone adds the experience it be consistent and Siri you should read you what it's finding to bring it up to pars what you get from Google and I don't know why now almost seven years later is not doing those things it's regardless of how you feel about Siri.