Apple failed so hard, and it was so easy to succeed.

I should be able to replace Siri with any AI provider over a year ago. (Eg hold power button and immediately talk to gpt4)

How’s something so easy so hard for Apple?

r0fl 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s not hard

If Siri is a lot better than less people will use safari to google things and the $20,000,0000,0000.00 annual deal with google will be compromised

iPhone sales are up year over year

Mac sales on fire

Why should they be scrambling? Everything is more than fine, no one cares

drewbeck 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can do it today with the action button and various apps (including OpenAI). And I believe you could do it a year ago as well.

	▲	mensetmanusman 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is what Apple would say, but it’s not the same. To activate the shortcut I have to unlock the phone whereas Siri works in any situation. The friction of one button press to 3-4 interactions is significant enough to make it not worth the action button, especially since holding the power button is supposed to do the same thing.

JasonBee 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe it’s not so easy?