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A bobcat walks into a barapple TV AI comedian3 years ago
Published March 17, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

A bobcat walks into a bar

Report: Apple rolling out a new wise-cracking Siri on Apple TV.

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Why Apple's Siri hasn't learned a thingapple siri llm chatbots3 years ago
Published March 15, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Why Apple's Siri hasn't learned a thing

Voice assistants are “dumb as a rock.” -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

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Hey Siri, is the stock market open today?apple siri markets closed3 years ago
Published January 2, 2023 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Hey Siri, is the stock market open today?

No matter how I phrased the question, Siri answered every time with "Here's how the markets did..."

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Apple's Siri may disappoint, but Amazon's Alexa is a 'colossal failure'apple amazon alexa failure3 years ago
Published November 22, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple's Siri may disappoint, but Amazon's Alexa is a 'colossal failure'

Just about every plan to monetize Alexa has failed.

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Having failed to fix Siri for Apple, search guru goes back to Googleapple search guru google3 years ago
Published November 12, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Having failed to fix Siri for Apple, search guru goes back to Google

From Jon Victor's "Apple Loses Web Search Technology Chief to Google" ($) posted Friday on The Information.

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Why Matter matters to Appleapple matter smart home4 years ago
Published February 20, 2022 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Why Matter matters to Apple

Finally, a VHS-like standard for the smart home.

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Apple Music Voice jokeapple music voice joke4 years ago
Published October 19, 2021 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple Music Voice joke

"If I wanted to pay money to be consistently misunderstood, I’d buy a plane ticket to my mother’s house."

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Apple's Siri: The dumbest of the artificial intelligent assistants just got dumberapple siri dumber5 years ago
Published September 30, 2021 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple's Siri: The dumbest of the artificial intelligent assistants just got dumber

From Juli Clover's "Recent Siri Changes Remove Call, Email, and Voicemail Features Used by Low Vision and Blind Users" posted Wednesday on MacRumors.

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EU trustbusters target Apple's Siri and other voice assistantsapple siri EU antitrust5 years ago
Published June 9, 2021 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

EU trustbusters target Apple's Siri and other voice assistants

From Reuters' "Market power of Siri, Alexa, Google a concern, EU regulators say" posted Wednesday.

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Who's the smartest speaker of them all?amartest apple siri google alexa7 years ago
Published August 15, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Who's the smartest speaker of them all?

Google gets the A.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]

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