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I didn’t catch that

Om Malik:

I have most of Apple’s devices and rarely does Siri get any use. And when it does, it is when I have accidentally called up Siri on occasion. I wonder if Apple includes erroneous Siri requests in this number. The only time I really use it is to start a phone call or send a text message on the Apple Watch […].

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Siri, no matter how you look at it is a 13-year-old product. It was born in an era before the emergence of current technologies such as LLM, which carry a lot of context and understanding. Siri is a good brand to build upon, but Apple needs to really jettison Siri-as-we-know-it and replace it with something more current, modern, and functional.

Siri is not up to par with any one of their competitors. Frankly, you can use it just to

  • ask to call,
  • send a message,
  • set up a reminder,
  • program an alarm or
  • start or stop a timer.

For all the other things, Siri sucks. For now, I hope.