Is it time to say ‘goodbye’ to Siri?

I don't find Siri is useful for Non-American users. It's extremely bullshit for me. Thought I manage to make it understand what I was talking about, most of the time I can't work with anything other than the default apps like calls, alarms etc. I am pretty fast working with touch and type rather than making N number of corrections with Siri.

Siri is still like a child... It's in its infancy, but it's growing and it's growing fast ! The future looks very bright for it especially on the "home automation" / "Intelligent home" side of things... So be sure of it, it's not going to die that soon ! :) Just give it time to grow, it's an artificial intelligent being and it's still very young, but it's evolving and maturing... Slowly but surely !!

I only use siri to set my alarm at night.

While Siri is not fully functional in Canada, for maps etc, I do use it for quick things like setting alarms. I can see it being more useful once it goes full bore. Keep in mind that this is just 1.0 gadgetgreg

Hmmm...the poll would suggest otherwise. Though I don't use it in the typical, "ask a question and wait for an answer" way very often, I use it many times a day to dictate Texts, tweets and short emails. I think that this is where the rel usefulness lies.

to say it's the best on any platform I think is a mistake. google has a very impressive voice command.

I've thought about this often and have come to realize that the "beta" part is more important than we sometimes realize. I sometimes get the sense that Siri is a pilot project for gathering data and information en masse so that it can be applied to the technology to give us something that qualifies as a 1.0 release. For what Siri is, the only way to get that data is to have millions of people using it, hence the uncharacteristic act of Apple releasing an open beta. I think Siri won't really be Siri until the first major revision.

The plain fact of the matter is Siri is too slow for how fast the human operates. The only way to fix it was if Siri could read your mind.

I'm pretty sure Apple is already working on that for iPhone 6 or something.

Meh, the Bloomberg article has less detail than this article. In the real world, you don't see people using Siri on a regular basis except in private making goofy requests just to see what it says.

Of course you can never tell an Apple fanboy this.

I love when my predictions are fulfilling :)

I'm more effective using shortcuts than to start the voice command and waiting for detection.

"Siri show me the weather","...".

Click on icon Weather... Opens Google, location detection, showing the weather ... well well...

A brief amount of research would surely have led you to official reports from network operators like this one in Bloomberg, which cites Siri as the primary reason for why iPhone 4S owners use twice the data of iPhone 4 owners:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/apple-s-voice-recognition-siri-doubles-iphone-data-volumes.html

People are using Siri. A lot. You might not. Your friends might not. But on a statistical graph of all iPhone 4S owners, you and your friends basically get rounded down to nothing. This is why good pieces might lead with an anecdote to rope folks in, but then are based on actual research and facts.

I use it all the time, mostly for adding reminders, calendar events and dictating quick texts/emails. Once the API is open and 3rd party apps can tap into it, I expect usage to skyrocket. To be able to control Spotify, Twitter, Facebook and others via voice will make it much more useful than just the core iOS apps.

Why are we saying good-bye to a beta project that hasn't even had a 1.0 release yet? That is like being annoyed that GMail didn't do everything you wanted when it first came out and you wanted to give up on it before it ever got out of beta.Is it really that slow of a news day? Don't you have something better you could be reporting on instead of starting flamewars?

It is great for "I found N items in your area. N-2 of them are close to you" even if that wasn't your initial command.

Siri optimization, I wrote about it 3 months ago, wil beome more and more important http://www.adfiliate.nl/seo/siri-optimalisatie/

I Use it to set appointments, but then I go in to the calender and make sure it's correct..Typical relationship, it's hard to trust her when you are just getting to know her.....

Both me and my dad use Siri for simple things like checking the weather, setting alarms, timers, finding each other on a map, etc. We'd use it even more if directions worked in our country, or if more of our communication was in English or German (that's the languages me and my dad use Siri in, respectively). Siri totally has potential, it just needs polish. Mat Honan of Gizmodo rightfully pointed out some flaws in it (http://gizmodo.com/5864293/siri-is-apples-broken-promise), but they are nothing that couldn't be addressed in future updates. Maybe Apple did this intentionally, to make something truly amazing and impressive while leaving room for improvement. Kinda like the first iPad.

I really only use it to put in Calendar appointments and call people. One of this issues with the question of weather we are still using Siri is that not all of its features are live outside the US (i.e. if I ask Siri for directions I get the response "Sorry, I can't provide maps and directions in Canada) . I'd be willing to bet that people living outside the US would find it more useful/compelling if all the geo-loaction features were available.

I love it.. i've used it to dictate a 3 page article and it was almost flawless despite my slight dutch accent. Also it's brilliant for requesting numbers of people living in a country/city, etc.

The only time I've wanted to use it was when I was driving, but I had no internet access so it didn't work.

I actually use Siri to write texts whilst I'm walking to work every day. Saves getting my hands out in the cold, and it's getting pretty good at recognising my voice..

I think it's not just about the voice recognition being inaccurate, but also a lot of times when you want to use it (especially when you are in public), you don't want to speak to your phone in front of other people.

E.g. on a crowded train!