I love it when Siri exposes her wry sense of humor. [Side note: Seems odd to refer to Siri as her, but that’s the default voice and the one I continue to use. Originally typed “its” but just didn’t work for me]
Ask Siri about iOS 8 and you’ll get a nice range of responses, including, “It’s just Swift”. Heh.
Apple continues to sweat the details. Love it.
Siri needs to gain more contextual awareness. Then the details would have been sweated.
I don’t think adding useless jokes to an assistant that worked better before Apple bought them counts as sweating the details. Kidding around is easy. Being useful isn’t.
Agreed. It is a nice touch, but that adds no functionality to a platform that is falling behind offerings from Google and Microsoft.
I always refer to Siri as her, even on my work phone which I switched to the British male voice to differentiate from my personal phone.
I contest that statement due to its relative nature. It may have worked better for you, but it works far better for me in its current state than it did originally.
If I may inquire, which features are missing from Siri now that you used in the original?
The most critical thing to remember about Apple’s purchase of Siri is that they purchased only the software, not the company that developed it. As a result, existing partnerships would have had to be renegotiated from scratch. Could they have added some of these features faster? Sure. Especially if they’d been willing to simply throw money at the problem. But that’s just not Apple’s style.
Personally, I would love to see Siri and the Today view in Notification Center allow me to have a more Google Now-like experience. But I’m very pleased with it the way it is.
Also, keep in mind that it takes significantly less time and testing to add clever responses to commonly asked questions than it does to add massive new enhancements to the service. It’s entirely possible that an Apple employee added these responses on their lunch break.