{"id":25197,"date":"2016-05-30T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=25197"},"modified":"2016-05-30T06:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T13:46:42","slug":"newsletter-issue-861-what-about-siri-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2016\/05\/newsletter-issue-861-what-about-siri-on-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #861: What About Siri on Steroids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Siri, Apple\u2019s digital personal assistant, debuted in the iPhone 4s in 2011, it has been both a source of amusement and extreme frustration. While Apple\u2019s TV ads, which often feature such notables as Samuel L. Jackson, depict Siri obediently responding to one\u2019s commands, it doesn\u2019t always play out that way in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Under regular use by people who aren\u2019t trained performers, Siri wasn\u2019t quite that responsive \u2014 or accurate. Even today, when I request that Siri set an alarm for a specific time, it sometimes gets \u201cAM\u201d or \u201cPM\u201d reversed. And that\u2019s the least of it. In the meantime, competitors have arisen. So we have Google Now, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, and Microsoft\u2019s Cortana that are being offered as comparable \u2014 or even better \u2014 than Siri.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Siri\u2019s original release was quietly and properly labeled as a beta, and it showed. Even though Siri has grown better with each release, and now delivers a more well-rounded feature set, it\u2019s still evidently limited by the fact that Apple isn\u2019t in the business of gathering personal information about you. That\u2019s one key reason, say the critics, that Google Now is superior. Remember, with Google, you are the product they are selling to their advertisers. Apple has assured you that they will do no such thing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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