Same!!! I used to tell people that Siri was good at what it’s intended to do. Ask it to set a reminder or timer or ask a basic question and it’s good.

But then Alexa came along and changed the paradigm for what voice assistants could do and so the questions to Siri became more complex. And it fell over quickly.

Even today I asked it “does HomeKit support sprinkler systems?” And I got the dreaded “I can send you web results if you ask from your iPhone.”

Completely useless.

💯 The best way it was described to me was “it’s a parlor trick.” And I’ve started to use that phrasing ever since.

Boiling the planet just for this… thing. Freaking awful.

Right? Instead of “I can show you some web results on your phone” every time it’s now “Would you like to ask ChatGPT?” every time. Barf.

It makes no sense!! Like… add a cooling down period between the two features.

Agreed!