Everybody praise Siri,the voice guided personal assistant from Apple. But it seems like one guy doesn’t like its performance at all and unfortunately, the same guy happens to be Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniac.Wozniac calls Siri, poo-poo.After Apple made announcements about the enhancements to Siri in its latest WWDC, Wozniac gave his opinions about this software to reporters of Times Union, “A lot of people say Siri. I say poo-poo. I was using it to make reservations long before Apple bought it.”
According to Wozniac, Siri performed better before it was acquired by Apple. As you may recall, Siri was once a third party app on Apple’s App store. At that time it could call taxis, make hotel reservations and even perform complex arithmetic. “I would say, ‘Siri, what are the five largest lakes in California?’ and it would come up, one, two, three, four, five. Then I would ask ‘What are the prime numbers greater than 87?’ and they would come up all in a row. That was pretty incredible,” Wozniak said. He used to talk to his friends and family about the beauty of the app, how it understands like talking to a human and so on.
Then started Siri’s second phase. On seeing the potential of App, Apple bought the company months after it entered Apple’s store and brought it right into the iPhone 4S. Now, as Wozniac says, “Siri had lost many of its earlier capabilities. If I ask Siri ‘what are the largest lakes in California?’ I would get all these lakefront properties. And I would say, ‘What are the prime numbers greater than 87?’ And I would get prime rib.”
Well, it is the first time Wozniac directly criticize one of the Apple’s prestigious app. But the man who co-founded one of the world’s most reputed company is famous for openly criticizing. Earlier this year, he had talked in favor of android devices and what can it do more than iPhones. But, with Apple’s latest updates to Siri, let’s hope it will become the “future,” that once Wozniac imagined.
