With Siri, you can hold down the home button until you're done speaking. Problem solved.
*BZZZT* Sorry, incorrect. I just tried that and it doesn't work. (at least not on 7.0.6)
With Siri, you can hold down the home button until you're done speaking. Problem solved.
Yeah, we're busy, productive people! We can't be expected to spare the effort or that extra 1/10th of a second saying an extra syllable!
Also, the iPhone is too long a name to pronounce. Everyone keeps asking me what I've got, and I'm sitting here, wasting upwards of 15 seconds out of my day telling people I've got the iPhone 5S. That's 15 seconds I could be doing something else!
I suggest we all start calling it the "pha" instead. One syllable. Easy to remember. THAT'S MARKETING!
:friend points at iPhone:
"Wha got"?
"Pha".
"K".
Not true. A personal computer is just that.
*BZZZT* Sorry, incorrect. I just tried that and it doesn't work. (at least not on 7.0.6)
It doesn't matter who does it, I think people still have brains today, so we have the capability of remembering something as simple as "buy some flowers" when you go to a flower shop.
I've never used Siri to make a reminder. I've actually never used the reminders app because I use my brain.
*BZZZT* Sorry, incorrect. I just tried that and it doesn't work. (at least not on 7.0.6)
you probably love typing in your 4 digit passcode every time.
you also probably type http:// manually
you also probably goto the edit menu to copy and edit menu again to paste
you also probably goto the menu to quit the app instead of pressing cmd + Q and file -> close tab instead of cmd + W
you also probably press "find next" manually instead of pressing cmd + G
you also probably move your mouse to the right side to manually pan the scrollbar instead of using multitouch on your trackpad
Siri is the worst. doesnt even give you a chance to think of what you wanna say while you are at it without being thrown off with gibberish
google now is more smooth in that area even tho i disabled both asap. no use for it as you end up spell checking and correcting stuff that takes longer than just typing it yourself
That's the point... Siri requires you to know where a flower shop may be, and even then will only remind you to buy flowers as you're walking into the shop....
How, exactly, is that useful in the real world at all?
Being reminded to do something when you're about to drive by a shop, actually is useful, and exactly what many of us have been asking Apple for since Reminders first came out.
I think the bigger news is that it seems like someone at Microsoft has been reading macrumors.com comments and listening to us more than Apple has. Either that, or all my comments at apple.com/feedback get directed to an in-box at Microsoft?
Please. It's an extra syllable, which literally takes zero effort on your part to pronounce. Saying Cortana isn't any more difficult or time consuming to say than Siri.
Some people will complain just to have something to complain about, I swear.
well, you're complaining about what I'm complaining about. so there's that.
Yeah MS, you sold a lot of copies of HALO. Sales of that crappy FPS will directly translate to sales of a crappy phone.
No, I'm complaining about you complaining, which makes me a complainer complainer, complaining about a topic people complain about because complaining is complaining when you're complaining. Complaining.
Some people will complain just to have something to complain about, I swear.
Why aren't you using the latest iOS?
The move to adapt cortana from halo as the Microsoft assistant is a brilliant one. Halo is an excellent franchise to appeals to the younger generation. Kind of like Beats![]()
I think you're overstating it quite a bit.
I have two gamers in my house, one 18 and one 11. Five or six years ago, they were excited about Halo. Now, it's old-hat and seems very boring and overplayed for them. And the last couple of Halo releases haven't made quite the splash that previous ones have. I think the franchise is played out.
Why doesn't he just call his wife to tell her Happy Anniversary? Why wait until she calls?
Please. It's an extra syllable, which literally takes zero effort on your part to pronounce.
I agree. Halo is played out. I guess MS is hoping that generation is attracted to the Cortana name for nostalgia.
While they're at it, they should start naming flagship phones after Halo characters.
Nokia Lumia Grunt
Nokia Lumia Elite
Nokia Lumia Ghost
Nokia Lumia Banshee
Nokia Lumia Warthog
Nokia Lumia Arbiter
Nokia Lumia Hierarch
etc...etc...
Really MS?
I think you're overstating it quite a bit.
I have two gamers in my house, one 18 and one 11. Five or six years ago, they were excited about Halo. Now, it's old-hat and seems very boring and overplayed for them. And the last couple of Halo releases haven't made quite the splash that previous ones have. I think the franchise is played out.