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Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri

Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to...

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2y ago

Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri

9to5mac.com /2023/08/03/microsoft-shutting-down-cortana-siri/

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Didn't know that Cortana is dead, although it won't be missed. Siri, OTOH, is extremely useful, and I could not disagree with this writer more.
This is so stupid.
Im an avid siri user, yeah it doesnt get it right all the time but its super useful for homekit and helpful in the kitchen. I couldn’t imagine them just abandoning it without introducing an alternative.
This is such a lazy, dumb take. Nobody even complains about Cortana because nobody used it in the first place. People complain about Siri precisely because so many people are using is so often that they inevitably come up against its shortcomings. It can certainly continue to grow and evolve but it’s a real-world useful tool today.
It absolutely should not. I don’t use Siri at all, but some folks, like this guy, quite honestly depend on Siri to live their lives. It’s a fabulous disability aid.
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Good riddance. I can't stand voice assistants. Obviously they're useful for some folks but if I don't want to use them they shouldn't be running on my system at all. I don't want Bixby, I don't want Xbox Gamebar, I don't want Ok Google, I don't want Edge... it's just endlessly tedious that these companies push an update through and dark pattern their way into getting it running on your system or straight up don't ask you.
Microsoft is all about co-pilots these days. Compared to a well-integrated general purpose co-pilot that's based on some GPT model and baked in at the system level, Cortana is a brick.
People actually use Siri.....
It’s strange. I’ve heard complaints about the uselessness of Siri for years. While I can’t speak to other people’s experiences, my own is that Siri is 99.9% accurate with me. I almost never type texts, I control my house with HomeKit, search the web, ask questions, check the weather and do dozens of other actions regularly with Siri. I wouldn’t want to do without it.
- It could be accents. I'm not an iOS user but my mother is and she has a strong non-american/non-western accent. Siri has gotten better over time for her but for the first year or so she used it, it would often misunderstand her.
  
  My wife yells at Siri as if it’s going to have an easier time understanding her.
The title of the article doesn't really match the content, which doesn't suggest to fully nuke Siri but rather to abandon the current underlying technology for something that's using generative AI (like ChatGPT). That's a reasonable suggestion and most likely Apple is already working on this.
I don’t really care about the voice assistant component of cortana but I really miss the auto-booking focus time feature. Bring it back!!!!

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