Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…
nah
Siri, while not great, handles timers, reminders, and dumbshit like that just fine without typing. I have yet to find another good use for these assistants.
“Hey siri, set a timer for 50 minutes” (time my dryer takes). “Timer set for 15 minutes”. Every god damn time. I say 49 minutes now.
I turned off “hey siri”, just hold down the power button now, but absolutely, you. GOT. To. Uh-Nunce-Ee-Ate. Ev-Ver-Ree-Thing. Vare-LEE. Clear-LEE.
You can just say ‘five zero’ and it’ll be interpreted as 50, I just tried it.
Agreed. I find myself using Siri on walks via AirPods quite a bit. Siri what’s the weather going to be like tonight . Siri what’s in my calendar tomorrow. Siri what’s the latest news. (That opens up podcast app and plays local news I love it. ). Siri let me know when it’s 12:30. I just wish it got better at answering simple questions. A few articles mentioned Apple started looking at incorporating a GPT style AI with Siri.
Shit. I use it to tell me how to spell words.
“Hey Siri, sophistication”
Yep. I’ve used my Google assistant for timers, alarms, weather, and music. Anything more complex is a headache. Even music is half the time.
Asking the thing to handle music in another language was terrible. Asking it to play a French song to an assistent set in English gives stupid results for example. “Que sera, sera” becomes “Oh Sarah”.
This will make the 3 people who actually used Cortana mildly disgruntled.
I spent hours trying to get rid of it, only to have it come back a few weeks later after an update.
One of many reasons I abandoned Windows entirely.
Nah, I use Siri daily for simple tasks. Turning on lights, setting timers, adding things to my groceries list. She’s simple, but perfectly fine for simple tasks.
Please leave her the fuck alone :’)
…similar to what? SIMILAR TO WHAT!?
Please not Siri, it ain’t smart but it does everything I want - the basics and reasonably easily.
I remember Cortana fondly when it was a great blend of Siri and Google Now but naturally it and Windows Phone got left to rot, and made her useless on desktop Windows since they forfeited my pocket.
I tolerated Google Assistant for a bit but ditched Android when Google pushed updates to remove the “okay Google with the screen off” feature from my Moto Z Play and gaslit the internet - stating it was never supported in closed support threads, the chipset didn’t support it and promoted it as a (then new) Pixel 1 feature. I figured Apple wouldn’t remove “Hey Siri” and so far several years in it’s still holding true.
Okay google works fine when the screen is off for me. On S22+ with latest Android
I know it’s still a feature for many, not saying it’s still a Pixel exclusive today, this was several years ago
I miss the squeeze to activate Google assistant. I used that all the time, but since I upgraded my pixel and it’s no longer an option, I just don’t use it ever.
It’s too embedded into their services at the moment. Like you can’t even use CarPlay unless you enable Siri. I like the idea but in contrast they could also just try to make it good lol.
not only that, they also sell smart speakers whose only interaction is with siri. Shutting down siri would turn those $300 speakers into paper weights. this article is a really bad take.
I am also reasonably sure — not 100%, but reasonably — that Siri has something to do with the transcription process for visual voicemail.
Whoa, you need Siri enabled for CarPlay?! I refuse to have any voice things turned on any devices and I’ve been considering upgrading my horribly slow double DIMM radio to a CarPlay radio. I guess I’ll skip that.
Yep. I don’t own a car, but I rented one and wanted to give CarPlay a spin for the first time. It was like please enable Siri. I ended up doing it, but became very annoyed with Siri not long after I brought the car back. Would definitely be an issue for me if I owned the thing instead of renting.
If you do any car shopping, just ask the dealer if you can try it. Would be a good way to verify if what I’m saying is still true.
I don’t understand why the author sees AI as an alternative to Siri rather than a potential upgrade.
God no. I use it when I can’t reach the phone. It isn’t perfect, but it still is valuable
aw shucks i wanted to see how sh*t cortana was
I use my Google assistant all the time…
…mostly to set timers.
Great for it though!
I’m kinda glad it’s over. Cortana killed the very useful voice commands on Xbox (alongside the size and price of the Kinect).
Instead of “Xbox On” you had to actually instruct Cortana to turn it on. The same for the quick screenshot or changing the channel on TV or whatever. It was so good, my whole family was using it and this was in 2014ish when voice control was still fairly new. Cortana ruined all of that for a virtual assistant that barely worked and made Siri look like AI.
Not the same thing. Even though Siri is not great, I still use it for basic tasks.
