alt Hacker News> wait to understand what the thing is capable of doing
My parents use Android to ask “What are the 5 biggest towers in Chicago” or “Remove the people on my picture” while apparently iPhone is only capable of doing “Hey Siri start the Chronometer / There is no contact named Chronometer in your phone”.
My iPhone is lagging a ridiculous 10 years behind. It’s just that I don’t trust Google with my credit card.
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Siri is one step below that for me, it still doesn't understand my accent, I feel like its voice recognition didn't improve from 2010...
I want the reverse version of this, if Apple can promise me to 'lag behind' for another ten years I'll buy my first Apple device in ten years
"10 years behind" would be an improvement for Siri. It's actively broken much of the time in a way that Google Assistant or Alexa never has been.
These are software/cloud features. You can install gemini on iphone if you want to talk about towers in Chicago.
The only reason to care about it being OS integrated is to interact with functions of the OS, which siri does fine.