{"id":33808,"date":"2021-10-04T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33808"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:54:53","slug":"siris-10-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/04\/siris-10-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri’s 10-Year Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Affected Siri domains include ride booking, configuration of vehicles via Siri over CarPlay, and third-party Photo Search. Many of these SiriKit intents were introduced when third-party Siri support was first added to the system back in iOS 10. Apple didn’t provide a reason for their abrupt removal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As Clover reports, these omissions were first documented by users on the AppleVis forums<\/a> who support disabled people who use iPhones. This may be a bug — the behaviour is also present in iOS 14.8<\/a> — but it amounts to a regression until it is fixed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

James Vincent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Described by Schiller as a “humble personal assistant,” Siri gave 2011’s iPhone a dose of star power during a difficult time for Apple. Just months before the phone’s unveiling, a relative unknown at the company, then-chief operating officer Tim Cook, had been named CEO. The day after Schiller’s presentation, Apple’s legendary co-founder Steve Jobs would die from pancreatic cancer. Analysts were cool on the company’s prospects but praised Siri as a potential game-changer<\/a>. One called it “a powerful harbinger of the future use of mobile devices,” while another said it was “the beginning of a new user experience [for] all of Apple’s mobile and Mac products.”<\/p>\n

A decade later, the sheen has worn off Siri’s star. “It is such a letdown,” was how Schiller described the promise of voice interfaces past, and such a description could easily be applied to Apple’s contribution to the genre. Everyone who uses Siri has their own tales of frustration — times when they’ve been surprised not by the intelligence but the stupidity of Apple’s assistant, when it fails to carry out a simple command or mishears a clear instruction. And while voice interfaces have indeed become widespread, Apple, despite being first to market, no longer leads.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

When I ask Siri for information I know is stored in iOS, like “show me photos from last August,” it just performs an image search for the phrase “last August.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Dag Kittlaus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We had a shared long-term vision with Steve which faded after he passed and my successor had no vision or accountability and is happily long gone from Apple. Steve and Scott F and the Siri founders had a plan that sadly died on the vine. But I’m confident Apple will lift Siri up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n