Apple’s AI era simply emphasizes what a 14-year-old disappointment Siri has been
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I’m going to talk about it Terminator 2: Day of judgment In a message about AI, but not for the reason you would hire, so keep me up. I want to talk about John Connor’s best friend, Tim.
There is a moment in the Arcade in which the T-1000 is looking for Connor, and Tim tries to decline Bravely. The T-1000 Ellebogen Tim effortlessly out of the frame to pursue his prey.
This is a photo cover for Tim. He no longer appears. He has been glued to John Connor until that moment, but now he has not only pushed out of sight, but From the movie.
That was the role of Siri at WWDC 2025But without the courage.
T2 Arcade Scene – Original – YouTube
Apple Opened with a large part about Apple Intelligence, but we were reminded that the AI-driven Siri still has to achieve the high standards of Apple, and that “we are looking forward to sharing more about it in the coming year”.
Oof, pushGoodbye Siri, there is only room for one annoying pre-teenager in this action film.
Take into account the quote above that AI Siri was announced on WWDC 2024, so we waited a year, and now it comes at a vague point within the next year.
The improved Siris failure to launch is often said that it is part of Apple in general with the pace of the AI development -but although it is true that I have eliminated a lot of apple information -functions because I think they are seriously substantiated, Siri has a long history of staying behind the competition.
14 years of missed potential
It is funny to think that Siri was the first of his kind of borderline. I say Borderline, because Siri was an existing product that Apple bought, so logically the technology already existed – but it integrated into the phone as Apple did in the iPhone 4S was new and interesting.
At the time I was working on a special iPhone journal and Siri was clearly a big problem: a new way to communicate with your phone, and – we adopted at the time – a new platform that would be constantly developed.
Unfortunately, this was not the case. Siri occasionally stumbled forward with new functions, but remained largely a speech-activated remote control for timers and maybe send a message.
When Alexa and Google Assistant became the largest technical platforms in the world for a while, we expected Siri to accelerate to keep track of them. It didn’t.
When Apple launched the original HomePod with Siri on it to compete with the ultrasound, Siri was much less capable than Alexa, and would often even get error music requests wrong, despite a large part of the launch that it had been upgraded to be good in music.
Oh yes … and the HomePod was announced on WWDC 2017, but was delayed for almost a year.
Apple has often added functions and has been tinkering with Siri over the years, but it has not solved the fundamental problem that it never really seemed able to process something outside of those fundamental external control applications.
I use Siri almost every day to set cooking timers. Often to turn on and off smart lights. Sometimes to activate Apple Watch Training when my hands are full. I send a message a few times a year, although I rarely rely on the transcription.
None of these are meaningful progressions of what it could do 14 years ago. Every time I encouraged to explore new usability areas with me, it immediately stumbled on his face and fell, like a scene in a comedy about rich people who are going on a walk for the first time.
Next year’s WWDC marks Siri for 15 years, and it is a big ‘like’ about whether we have seen the new version by that time. If we have not done that – or even if we have done that, but it has only been as successful as an update as earlier versions – it might be an old Yeller – time.
Google Gemini is too impressive on Android phones for Siri to keep walking in the walls. Chatgpt is working with Apple’s own Jony Ive on a new AI-first device. Siri cannot be worn forever; And yet it is failure to appear for the huge WWDC event just another in a long line of disappointments. This must certainly end soon, somehow.
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