Siri was acquired by Apple Inc. in April 2010 under the direction of Steve Jobs.
Siri’s original release on iPhone 4s on Oct 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri’s limited set of features, “bad” voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple’s prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.[3] Its launch was also overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs, which occurred one day after the launch.
Between the release 2011 until today, it was simmering and never developed. It is crazy how such a bad implementation was carried on by apple so long. Over 14 years of failed promises.
I’m not shocked, in the slightest, to be completely honest.
All the companies that tried to push this kind of technology, as an Ironman JARVIS alternative, likely knew they don’t have the research to make it anything, other than an extremely barebones speech recognition system, with an alarm/weather app attached to it, but still pushed it to the market, because that’s what makes the money.
Beyond that, once the dust settled, there was no incentive to innovate on it. The competitors have either given up, or put their product in maintenance mode, where it continues to rot, and lose features over time.
The only reason why it seems like there’s innovation again now, is because they took that voice recognition tech, and slapped AI slop, fed by your own data, on top of it
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Between the release 2011 until today, it was simmering and never developed. It is crazy how such a bad implementation was carried on by apple so long. Over 14 years of failed promises.
I’m not shocked, in the slightest, to be completely honest.
All the companies that tried to push this kind of technology, as an Ironman JARVIS alternative, likely knew they don’t have the research to make it anything, other than an extremely barebones speech recognition system, with an alarm/weather app attached to it, but still pushed it to the market, because that’s what makes the money.
Beyond that, once the dust settled, there was no incentive to innovate on it. The competitors have either given up, or put their product in maintenance mode, where it continues to rot, and lose features over time.
The only reason why it seems like there’s innovation again now, is because they took that voice recognition tech, and slapped AI slop, fed by your own data, on top of it