Apple’s Broken Promise, aka Siri, has a lot of problems, and Apple is trying to fix them. There are two new job openings for iOS software engineers to work with Siri’s user interface team:
We are looking for an engineer to join the team that implements the UI for Siri. You will primarily be responsible for implementing the conversation view and its many different actions. This includes defining a system that enables a dialog to appear intuitive, a task that involves many subtle UI behaviours in a dynamic, complex system. You will have several clients of your code, so the ability to formulate and support a clear API is needed.
It’s good to know that they are actively searching to fix Siri. It’s still not good that they released this incomplete piece of software as a major feature in a final product, even with the “beta” tag. [Apple and Apple via 9to5Mac]
BenDTU
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:25 AMIs Jesus Diaz the resident linkbait writer or something?
Nick
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:49 AMSounds like he has the biggest fucking chip on his shoulder. I’d like to see some articles with a little more objectivity.
Shogun
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 1:55 PMSeeing as Jesus used to be the resident Apple iFan, and would positively gush over every little thing Apple, I think this is moving toward balance for him. For Jesus to actually be disappointed by something Apple is a point of amazement in itself
Steve
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:39 PMHe’s not moving towards balance. He’s just being confronted with incontrivertible proof and he’s attempting to diminish it. The last sentence just reeks of apologism.
I see the same thing all the time when people too entrenched in a particular mentality (sports, politics etc). When their worldview is under attack by the facts of reality, they deal with it by attempting to discredit the evidence, launch ad hominem attacks or tu quoque accusations. Anything that will alleviate the burgeoning cognitive dissonance in their brains. I could just picture Jesus Diaz squirming as he’s forced to type this out.
z3d
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:43 AMwho is having problems with siri now??? works great.
Steve
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:40 PMhttp://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/rant-siri-is-apples-broken-promise/
Goddamn everyone’s having problems with Siri. Unless you had no expectations whatsoever and no experience with voice recognition, it’s a disappointment.
Keep in mind, that article is from a US writer. With Aussies, you’ll also have to throw in the fact that our version is lacking local businesses on top of the usual issues.
John
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:11 AMI agree they should have been doing all this before it was released, not after. But perhaps the argument could be fairly made that an app like this could only be perfected by getting millions of people to road test it?
Nick
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:50 AMFair and accurate. Only by crowd-sourcing on a mass scale could you perfect a tech like this.
Peter
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:16 AMThen why is it only available on the 4s? Excluding a huge section of your customers just for some unfinished software.
S0ULphIRE
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:13 PMThe average joe doesn’t give two shits what a processor is, let alone which one it is. So Camera and Siri are the only two major selling points for the 4s. Take away siri, and you’re upgrading just for a new camera. Not many people would like that.
But tack on the amazing Siri to all adverts and bam you’ve got yourself hype and sales.
Steve
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:44 PMBecause without Siri, the only tangible improvement to the 4S over the 4 for regular people is a camera. The processor improvement is nice, but most people won’t notice precisely because the 4 isn’t being taxed as it is. A camera as the only improvement in 12 months? That’s unacceptable for even Apple’s legion of launch-day fans.
Hence Apple buys out Siri, makes it a 4S exclusive (whereas it wasn’t before) and markets the hell out of it as the must-have feature for their newest phone with no explanation whatsoever as to why it’s not backwards compatible. No wonder people are disappointed. Apple hyped it up to a ridiculous degree and it’s still obviously teething. Look at how many Siri adverts include a disclaimer, or “Beta” (even if normal people don’t even know what a ‘beta’ means)