This is one of those announcements that actually just excites me as a consumer. We give our children HomePods as their first device when they turn 8 years old (Apple Watch at 10 years, laptop at 12) and in the 6 years I have been buying them, they have not improved one ounce. My kids would like to listen to podcasts, get information, etc. All stuff that a voice conversation with Chatgpt or Gemini can do today, but Siri isn't just useless-- it's actually quite frustrating!

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46493168 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s absolutely insane that you can’t say “Siri, play my audiobook” and it play the last audiobook you listened to. Like, come on.

	▲	http-teapot 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or when you are driving, someone sends a yes-no question where the answer is no. Siri: Would you like to answer? Me: Yes Siri: ... Me: No + more words Siri: Ok (shuts off)

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layer8 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It remains to be seen what the existing HomePods will support. There’s been a HomePod hardware update in the pipeline for quite some time, and it appears like they are waiting for the new Siri to be ready.

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knallfrosch 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Siri still can't play an Apple Music album when there is a song of the same name.

Even "Play the album XY" leads to Siri only playing the single song. It's hilariously bad.

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billti 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Or the even more frustrating:

Me: "Hey Siri, play <well known hit song from a studio album that sold 100m copies"

Siri: "OK, here's <correct song but a live version nobody ever listens to, or some equally obscure remix>"

Being these things are at their core probability machines, ... How? Why?

	▲	troad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Being these things are at their core probability machines, ... How? Why? Is Siri a probability machine? I didn't think it was an LLM at all right now? I thought it was some horrendous tree of switch statements, hence the difficulty of improving it. Apple search is comically bad, though. Type in some common feature or app, and it will yield the most obscure header file inside the build deps directory of some Xcode project you forgot existed.