> They need to leave Siri behind and make a whole new thing
Keep Siri! Siri can become the dumb, reliable agent. When I want my garage door opened, I ask Siri. When I want something more thoughtful, I ask this other thing.
I remember when Siri replaced the original voice recognition. “Call XYZ” etc. after a long press of the wired remote.
To this day, it’s less reliable. Also Siri can’t text my wife who has two phone numbers in my address book. Although there is just a single iMessage chat - Siri always asks (Which one? - without offering options!!!)
The old farts in Apple management need to go and pronto.
The ossification of the entire management layer is really reall frightening and a terrible sign for a company.
The worst part is when I ask Siri to call or text my partner, and then the phone goes ahead and calls a different person with a vaguely similar sounding name that I have had no contact with in a decade. Why Siri?
Or when I ask for directions to a hardware store, and I get a result 300km away across a national border...
i have found nothing in my usage to suggest that current Siri can reliably open a garage door. Or do anything else - it’s actively worse than 5 years ago.
A few major iOS releases ago when you said “Hey Siri, wake me up in an hour”, it correctly set an alarm in now() + 60 minutes. Nowadays if you don’t say an absolute time, it sets a timer instead of an alarm. I used relative times when taking naps so this regression is a UX change for worse for me.
To the extent that it's worse, it's worse because they try to layer more stuff on top of it that ends up conflicting with the basic set a timer, trigger HomeKit, send a text message functionality.
Keep Siri! Siri can become the dumb, reliable agent. When I want my garage door opened, I ask Siri. When I want something more thoughtful, I ask this other thing.