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…
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I use my Google assistant all the time…
…mostly to set timers.
Great for it though!
Should’ve killed Cortana in Halo 4
…similar to what? SIMILAR TO WHAT!?
Siri.
I think most people saw that coming, Microsoft effectively sealed Cortana’s fate when they relegated it to a standalone app
I don’t understand why the author sees AI as an alternative to Siri rather than a potential upgrade.
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Apple can’t kill Siri. Too many of its solutions rely on voice as the dominant input method. Accessibility for Mac / iOS, HomePod, CarPlay, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, AirPods, etc.
Also, Siri has about a 3rd of the voice assistant market, Cortana use was way below that.
aw shucks i wanted to see how sh*t cortana was
This will make the 3 people who actually used Cortana mildly disgruntled.
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I’ve always hated it as it took a decent amount of my ram without ever having used it
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.
Not the same thing. Even though Siri is not great, I still use it for basic tasks.
I shut off asuch of Cortana on my desktop as I could. Not a wanted feature.
This article sounds like it was written by someone who barely understands what a voice assistant is, let alone how a corporation works. Very dumb. Is 9to5 using GPT instead of paying journalists?
Not to mention that microsoft is definitely going to replace it with bing powered by chatgpt. They probably found that it was easier starting bing from the ground up now than having to deal with whatever has been shoved into cortana’s code over the years.
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.
Whoa, you need Siri enabled for CarPlay?! I refuse to have any voice things turned on any devices and I’ve been considering upgrading my horribly slow double DIMM radio to a CarPlay radio. I guess I’ll skip that.
Yep. I don’t own a car, but I rented one and wanted to give CarPlay a spin for the first time. It was like please enable Siri. I ended up doing it, but became very annoyed with Siri not long after I brought the car back. Would definitely be an issue for me if I owned the thing instead of renting.
If you do any car shopping, just ask the dealer if you can try it. Would be a good way to verify if what I’m saying is still true.
That’s fair! Honestly I just want a Bluetooth connection that doesn’t have a 1-2 second delay. Maybe FLAC support from flash drives.
My current radio plays MPs from flash drives, but won’t let you CHANGE THE SONG if you’re not stopped. So I use my phone via BT, which has this awful delay when doing anything at all.
With my last car, I used my beloved Bluetooth to 3.5mm adapter, which connects instantly, has no delay, and sounds magnificent. I would happily do with this car… BUT THE RADIO DOESN’T HAVE A GOT DANG 3.5MM JACK.
I think the car I rented could do Bluetooth audio without using CarPlay. I don’t remember how good/bad the delay was though.
I am genuinely curious… how could it possibly matter if there is a small delay on audio playback?
Watching video while parked? Impossible.
Volume down? Enjoy loud.
Forward? More song. No new song.
Bad. No delay good.
The only thing here that reads as English is the video use case. If I ever watched a video in my car I’d identify. But I don’t and may never do that.
It’s ANNOYING when I change a track foward or turn down the volume for any reason and it DOESN’T DO THE THING for a while.
Is that really so difficult for you to grok?
Do you need it translated better?
It’s annoying because I have a device that DOESN’T DO THAT but I cannot plug it in as my car doesn’t have a standard 3.5mm jack or a way to plug an adopter in.
I don’t watch videos in my car, except when I’m waiting for someone to go to my car and I’m already in my car.
I am also reasonably sure — not 100%, but reasonably — that Siri has something to do with the transcription process for visual voicemail.
not only that, they also sell smart speakers whose only interaction is with siri. Shutting down siri would turn those $300 speakers into paper weights. this article is a really bad take.
Microsoft isn’t giving up on assistants (as per the article), its just going down a different route, more AI focused. This is sensible because Cortana is a flop, nobody uses it, there is no need to leave it running.
I’m certain Apple has the same plans around AI, however people still use Siri all the time. It’s not a flop, so it may as well stay running as more and more AI works its way over to it or its replacement.
It’s really weird to me that anyone would want it shut down when it’s so easy to just not use it.
I too actually bothered to read the article.
Cortana is trash. Bing’s AI isn’t perfect, but at least it’s not afraid to say “I don’t know”, instead of hallucinating some made up bullshit every single time. I mean it still does it, but not nearly as often and you can always check the sources it provides to confirm.
It would be a lot better if it used Google search instead of Bing, however. Often times it can’t find the answer that a Google search can. That merger will never happen, though.
M$ was banking on horny teenagers to use Cortana. Thing is, they forgot the sexy bits.
