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A peace offering from Siri

A peace offering from Siri

2022-09-19

Every year, there’s an announcement about new features and improvements in Siri. They generally consist of:

  • Here are some fancy new features that make a great demo, but I’m more interested in existing stuff working correctly.
  • Here are some major improvements that sound similar to what you already announced last year or the year before. Well, they still don’t work.

So I suggest a peace offering from Siri for her (or his, or their) users.

  1. Allow every user to submit one Siri feature they’d like to see work reliably. Very targeted things like playing a song, setting a timer, or telling me the weather.
  2. Collect all the requests and rank the Top 10 suggestions
  3. Fix at least one of them so that it’s better than 95% reliable
  4. Disband all future work on Siri

Then we can just accept the current state of Siri and not have our dreams crushed yearly. If you never have problems with Siri, I suspect you are not using it with HomePod.

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