Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…
Cortana isn’t dead. The brand of it is. Bing ai is almost what Cortana was supposed to be
Siri on the other hand…
Which heavily relies on Bing ironically enough.
Nice cut, Memmy.
I shut off asuch of Cortana on my desktop as I could. Not a wanted feature.
This will make the 3 people who actually used Cortana mildly disgruntled.
I spent hours trying to get rid of it, only to have it come back a few weeks later after an update.
One of many reasons I abandoned Windows entirely.
M$ was banking on horny teenagers to use Cortana. Thing is, they forgot the sexy bits.
Nah, I use Siri daily for simple tasks. Turning on lights, setting timers, adding things to my groceries list. She’s simple, but perfectly fine for simple tasks.
Please leave her the fuck alone :’)
…similar to what? SIMILAR TO WHAT!?
Please not Siri, it ain’t smart but it does everything I want - the basics and reasonably easily.
I remember Cortana fondly when it was a great blend of Siri and Google Now but naturally it and Windows Phone got left to rot, and made her useless on desktop Windows since they forfeited my pocket.
I tolerated Google Assistant for a bit but ditched Android when Google pushed updates to remove the “okay Google with the screen off” feature from my Moto Z Play and gaslit the internet - stating it was never supported in closed support threads, the chipset didn’t support it and promoted it as a (then new) Pixel 1 feature. I figured Apple wouldn’t remove “Hey Siri” and so far several years in it’s still holding true.
Okay google works fine when the screen is off for me. On S22+ with latest Android
I miss the squeeze to activate Google assistant. I used that all the time, but since I upgraded my pixel and it’s no longer an option, I just don’t use it ever.
I don’t miss it at all. Every time I put my phone in my cupholder, it would activate, but when I actually needed it to work, it just wouldn’t.
It’s too embedded into their services at the moment. Like you can’t even use CarPlay unless you enable Siri. I like the idea but in contrast they could also just try to make it good lol.
aw shucks i wanted to see how sh*t cortana was
I don’t understand why the author sees AI as an alternative to Siri rather than a potential upgrade.
nah
Siri, while not great, handles timers, reminders, and dumbshit like that just fine without typing. I have yet to find another good use for these assistants.
Yep. I’ve used my Google assistant for timers, alarms, weather, and music. Anything more complex is a headache. Even music is half the time.
Asking the thing to handle music in another language was terrible. Asking it to play a French song to an assistent set in English gives stupid results for example. “Que sera, sera” becomes “Oh Sarah”.
