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WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:29:29 »
Look guys: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-siri-based-smart-speaker-has-over-50-chance-of-debuting-at-wwdc-in-june.2043898/

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Oh yess... Siri is soooooo good. It works soooooo well. Let's make a device with it. //sarcasm

What do you guys think? I honestly don't get why people would buy these apparatuses..
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:31:43 »
I got one so I would be less alone.

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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:33:17 »
Quote from: Slash Emperor on Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:31:43
I got one so I would be less alone.

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That's actually a fair point. Thing is... Siri understands nothing or misunderstands it... all the time. At least that's my experience and the experience of friends around me. Basically everybody around me stopped using Siri.
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:37:47 »
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:49:05 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Mon, 01 May 2017, 17:37:47
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 20:04:24 »
They would have to improve Siri by a factor of 10 for people to even consider this. She is just awful compared to Alexa and Google. Many simple questions you'd ask her are defaulted to web searches (if they are even correctly understood to begin with). The only thing I can reliably count on her to do is check the weather for me.
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 21:54:17 »
So they finally found a use for old Mac Pro cases?
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 01 May 2017, 22:54:02 »
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 01 May 2017, 21:54:17
So they finally found a use for old Mac Pro cases?



The macpro price is somewhat justifiable because you get the 2x pro cards in there..

Buh....... I heard support wasn't super great software side.. so.. .maybe not..
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 03:31:12 »
Quote from: ghostdeini on Mon, 01 May 2017, 20:04:24
They would have to improve Siri by a factor of 10 for people to even consider this. She is just awful compared to Alexa and Google. Many simple questions you'd ask her are defaulted to web searches (if they are even correctly understood to begin with). The only thing I can reliably count on her to do is check the weather for me.

Yeah it's really horrible.
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 03:33:38 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Mon, 01 May 2017, 22:54:02
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 01 May 2017, 21:54:17
So they finally found a use for old Mac Pro cases?



The macpro price is somewhat justifiable because you get the 2x pro cards in there..

Buh....... I heard support wasn't super great software side.. so.. .maybe not..

Well.. it was garbage. They never provided an upgrade path for a machine that easily costs 7000-10000 USD. They never offered the promised replacement cards. Every connector is non-standard. It's basically "yeah yeah... we can make user upgradeable machines. See? BUT YOU HAVE TO BUY PARTS FROM US".
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
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Re: WHAT? Apple's "Echo/Alexa" spinoff device
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 02 May 2017, 04:52:04 »
isn't half the benefit of Echo/Home etc the fact that you can integrate with a big variety of devices from a range of manufactures?

we all know that apple like to keep everything in their own ecosystem, so they'd need to pump out a bunch of smart devices for it to be useful for anything other than what siri on an iphone can offer
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