I have to agree! I’m an Apple fanboy, but I have to say Siri as a virtual assistant is... virtually useless (excuse the pun!). I will say, if the only few things a virtual assistant can do consistently well, is tell the time, set an alarm, and check on the weather… then I’m not particularly impressed. I mean, Siri “can” perform more complex tasks. But a lot of those requests require the user to learn and dictate a specific set of words, whilst speaking in a fake American accent (I’m not from the US), otherwise Siri loses the plot and then seemingly thinks it’s actually helping by offering to load a webpage on the subject instead. The most annoying part is when Siri requests are made from the other side of the room, and she then requires me to unlock my iPhone first before responding to even the simplest of requests. I mean if I have to unlock my iPhone first - then what’s the point of Siri? At that moment I might as well just use the iPhone! But, without sounding too harsh, some things I often do that Siri does quite well - is adding food items onto the groceries list (in Reminders) while I’m peering inside my empty fridge just before running off to the supermarket. And, asking Siri to tell me what’s my next appointment on the calendar. She’s good at that too. But, here’s the thing… immediately after telling me about my next appointment, if I then ask her how long will it take for me to drive to that appointment, she then responds… “What appointment?” Arrggg!!! In my opinion, if Siri can’t respond to simplistic contextual requests, and be able to understand different accents, then I think the whole idea of Siri as a virtual assistant is farcical at best.