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It’s the same broken promise every year. All I want is for Siri to set an alarm and open my blinds. That’s enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple
by Ecstatify 3mo ago
It’s the same broken promise every year. All I want is for Siri to set an alarm and open my blinds. That’s enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into Siri over the years.
- s3p 3mo agoJokes aside, I have been using siri to control my smart home and set my alarm for nearly ten years now. I haven't really had problems with basic stuff like this.
- lukevp 3mo agoNot in the same request. I often want to turn off 2 lights and the other on, I have to build scenes to do this
- rafaelmn 3mo ago>Siri turn off the main light in children's bedroom 100% of the time turns of all the lights in children's bedroom. Alexa has no problem with this. Disappointing to say the least. Completely useless, I was going to get an Android this year on upgrade cycle. Will check this out first.
- bandrami 3mo agoI'm too paranoid to ever want a home snitch device, so I'm not their target audience, but it always struck me that if it took even ten minutes to debug a problem like that it completely destroys a year's worth of time allegedly saved compared to just walking over to the room and hitting the switch.
- zeratax 3mo agotrue, but also there is no debugging, right? it's apple's software either it works or it doesn't. (i guess other than connectivity issues) idk if most of my home assistant automations have actually saved me time since i def had to debug them, but the level of satisfaction when they do work is def worth it for me, since i created (and debugged) them haha
- jon-wood 3mo agoHome Assistant automations for me are rarely about saving time, they're about saving mental energy. I no longer need to think about turning off the bathroom lights, my coffee machine is already warm when I go to make my morning coffee rather than standing around waiting for it, and when the washing machine is done I'll get a note reminding me to go empty it.
- s3p 3mo agoYeah this is true however i will use the manufacturer app if Siri or the Home app doesn't work.
- rafaelmn 3mo agoIt's not about time efficiency more about convince. It sounds trivial but sometimes it's really useful to be able to do things hands free/without having to move - worth spending the time to install/setup all of this once. I'm in the middle of remodeling a new apartment and all my switches are smart. I won't even have physical switches for some fixtures like window rollers.
- imp0cat 3mo agoAmazon devices get a lot of flak for being too invasive, but at least they work.
- conradfr 3mo agoI press a switch on the wall.
- Scoundreller 3mo agoI can’t afford these vintage accoutrements for my shoebox
- rafaelmn 3mo agoGood for you ?
- Planktonne 3mo ago> Siri turn off the main light in children's bedroom This is a fascinating example. You would initially assume it's just inconvenient versus flipping a switch--this can't be labour-saving by default. The only way it makes sense is if you're doing it remotely; from another room, you're putting your children to bed. That's even weirder though, because you're taking what should be a moment of connection/care and trying to automate it. I guarantee your children would value you taking the time. It's a use-case that is either inefficient or inhuman, and I find it really odd that it's one that you value.
- alt227 3mo agoIts always frustrating when people describe a tech issue, and the response to that is not to discuss the issue itself, but just point out ways in which the person reply doesn't agree with what they are assuming is the original posters lifestyle choices. Why waste time and effort just picking apart what someone else does with their free time? I can only assume becasue they disagree with the issues relevance, but that only goes to show the intent of the person replying. They dont care about the tech issue and just want to show why they think they are better than the person with the problem. Human condition i guess!
- Planktonne 3mo agoTech issues don't exist in a vacuum; the idea that tech--a thing we use to enhance our lives, in a discussion literally about doing that--can only be considered from a purely mechanical standpoint is a thought-terminating cliché at this point. Considering the uses and impact of tech is part of talking about it; you can't limit discussion just to the wires.
- macintux 3mo ago> It's a use-case that is either inefficient or inhuman, and I find it really odd that it's one that you value. You could have simply asked without denigrating the commenter.
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- SebastianKra 3mo ago"Siri, lights out everywhere" - "okay, which room". "Siri, start a stopwatch" - runs the App "Stopwatch" without starting it Such errors happen maybe 50% of the time. You can never just ask something without double-checking afterwards.
- codechicago277 3mo agoSiri, wake me up at “time”… Months later you have dozens of saved alarms, all at different times. Set a timer for 50 minutes…always get a timer for 15.
- macintux 3mo agoI learned long ago to set my timers for 49 minutes.
- s3p 3mo agoAh, for me my key word is "turn off all my lights" and it works
- SebastianKra 3mo agoThx, I'll switch to that. Somehow "everywhere" works on my phone but not my watch.
- ryanmcbride 3mo agoThis is completely unrelated to the topic at hand, but what iot blinds do you use?
- Ecstatify 3mo agoI’m using Eve Blinds. They integrate really well with HomeKit. They’re a bit on the pricey side, but the setup is straightforward and they’ve been very reliable for me. ref: https://www.evehome.com/en/eve-blinds-collection https://www.evehome.com/en/eve-blinds-collection
- russellbeattie 3mo agoAll I want is for iPhones to have physical keyboards. That's enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into touch screens over the years.
- jm4 3mo agoI don't know why they bother. Clearly, nobody using Apple products cares enough to jump ship. Apple is never going to surpass Google, especially now that they are trying to build their own assistant on top of Google with one hand tied behind their back. There's never going to be a situation where a heavy Google Assistant user switches over to Apple for Siri. Anyone who would have switched from Apple to Google for their assistant likely would have done so by now. Siri just isn't a very important feature. It doesn't bring people to Apple's platform nor does it steer them away. It might bother users that it sucks, but it doesn't bother anyone enough that it hurts Apple's bottom line. Frankly, continuing to pour money into that bottomless pit does more damage. I wonder why they do it.
- dhosek 3mo agoA few years ago, the ability to do anything other than a timed walk on my watch with Siri broke. I used to be able to do things like say, “start a 3 mile walk” or “start a 200 calorie walk” and then the latter stopped working and then the former stopped letting me do non-integer numbers of miles and then nothing at all and now I cannot do anything other than start an unmeasured walk or a timed walk with siri and I’m still pissed about that. I don’t want to have conversations with my watch or my phone, I want it to handle simple basic tasks reliably.
- lucaspiller 3mo agoGoogle did the same bullshit on Android. With Google Assistant (old assistant) I could say "Hey Google, play daft punk" and it would start playing Daft Punk on Spotify. With Gemini (new assistant) it says "sorry I cannot play music, but here are links to services where you can find Daft Punk albums". Fortunately at the moment you can still toggle between them. I guess not for long though.
- prathamtharwani 3mo agoI just tried "Hey Google, play daft punk" with the new Gemini assistant and it works as expected?
- ezst 3mo agoPeople having extremely opposite user experiences with LLMs. How could this be?
- 71bw 3mo agoI can't even get Gemini to properly call somebody - it is a mess.
- abustamam 3mo agoI can no longer control my lights with Gemini assistant. It'll tell me "I can't do that" or "here's how to turn your lights on" or, in at least one instant, play Ellie Golding's Lights at 2x speed. So now I just use the Google home app and it works as expected.
- jen729w 3mo ago> Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into Siri over the years. Orders of magnitude less than the literal trillions that others have?
- taneq 3mo agoI’ve wondered for years if this is what’s happening. They saw the mad scramble and hype bubble when gpt3 was released, and decided to sit it out until LLM tech was a bit more mature and commoditised. Huge call if so, given that missing the bus on AGI (if AGI happened) is a universal existential risk, but it turned out to be the right one.
- jen729w 3mo ago> a universal existential risk I'm not sure it is, if your primary business is selling hardware. People are still going to need a 5" wide screen and battery in their pocket in order to do things.
- taneq 3mo agoAGI will either remove that need, or build its own factory to supply better phones cheaper than we could.