Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…
This is so stupid.
Im an avid siri user, yeah it doesnt get it right all the time but its super useful for homekit and helpful in the kitchen. I couldn’t imagine them just abandoning it without introducing an alternative.
Didn’t know that Cortana is dead, although it won’t be missed. Siri, OTOH, is extremely useful, and I could not disagree with this writer more.
This is such a lazy, dumb take. Nobody even complains about Cortana because nobody used it in the first place. People complain about Siri precisely because so many people are using is so often that they inevitably come up against its shortcomings. It can certainly continue to grow and evolve but it’s a real-world useful tool today.
It’s strange. I’ve heard complaints about the uselessness of Siri for years. While I can’t speak to other people’s experiences, my own is that Siri is 99.9% accurate with me. I almost never type texts, I control my house with HomeKit, search the web, ask questions, check the weather and do dozens of other actions regularly with Siri. I wouldn’t want to do without it.
It could be accents. I’m not an iOS user but my mother is and she has a strong non-american/non-western accent. Siri has gotten better over time for her but for the first year or so she used it, it would often misunderstand her.