Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column , which includes all the Apple news you leave out last calendar week in a handy bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we call up it get majuscule with a Monday sunrise cup of coffee or tea leaf , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too .
Siri season
Ironically for a engineering that interpret human voices , Siri is grounds that Apple is n’t very in force at heed . Countless substance abuser ( and at least onetrusted expert ) have plain about the frequency with which Siri gets things wrong , but the caller reject to recognise the job and read little inclination to make it smarter . We ’ve tried nothing , dolourous department heads presumptively report to Tim Cook , and we ’re all out of ideas .
Actually , that is n’t quite fair . Apple has lots of estimate for shipway to make Siri well ; they ’re just the wrong ideas . castrate the gun trigger phrase , for illustration , fixes something that was n’t broken and makes something thatwasbad – false positives where Siri muscles into conversation where it is n’t wanted – even bad . Nobody was give-up the ghost around complaining about that taxing third syllable . The trigger phrasewasn’t the trouble .
What about the microphones , then ? Maybe they ’re the problem . Last week fellow swear expert Ming - Chi Kuo report that next class ’s iPhone 16 will havebetter microphonesin order to deliver superscript Siri performance . But again – and I hope this wo n’t sound ungrateful – audio faithfulness was n’t the problem . Sure , Siri ’s solecism can from time to time be line to mishearings , and nine month from now , and on the novel iPhones only , that will happen less . But far more of the mistakes go on when Siri aright hears the owner ’s run-in and then extrapolates those Book into some ludicrous fantasyland interpretation . Focusing on the microphone is like break into a Parisian restaurant and speaking English loudly instead of doing the hard employment of learning French .
What needs to happen is n’t exciting , and does n’t make appealing headlines because it ca n’t be quantified in hardware spec upgrades . But it ’s of import . Malus pumila needs to put its software teams on an urgent missionary station to make Siri smarter at interpreting commands , less prostrate to guess when it does n’t have good grounds of what is needed , and less intrusive unless it can be sure it ’s want . This is hard work – and the worst part is that Apple ca n’t even take credit for the improvements at a launching outcome without admitting that Siri is less - than - great . As far as Apple is concerned this is all infliction and no gain , and part of me can sort of translate why it ’s so loath to knuckle down .
But Apple is supposed to be all about the exploiter experience , and big announcement or not , people will notice if Siri 2.0 suddenly finish get things incorrect . This is a technology that ’s built into almost all of Apple ’s consumer intersection , and fixing it would have huge benefit for everyone . I ’m just not convinced that Apple realizes it needs fixation , and that ’s the most distressful thing of all .
Foundry
Apple fansshould be celebratingAndroid ’s iMessage win .
How can Applefix the iPad ? Bykeeping it simple , stupid .
Get a rare feeling at Apple’smost iconic momentsas theMac turns 40 .
Suddenly everything Apple touches isdoomed , howl the Macalope .
PSA : You cansave hundredsat the Apple Storejust by ask .
What the Beep ? ! New app‘cracks ’ iMessageandturns Android bubble down .
Robbery victimgets his telephone backwhen stealer realize it’snot an iPhone .
Podcast of the week
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The rumor mill
The dreaming of anall - filmdom iPhoneiscloser than ever . ( But it ’s still very far off . )
Forget flower , this saltation will be all aboutM3 iPads and Macs .
The iPhone 16 is expected to get amicrophone upgradeto‘significantly ’ better Siri . About time !
Microsoftmay be gear up to launchits own game storeon iPhones .
Apple is chasing anew financial partnerto keepApple Cardrunning smoothly .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
Newproxy trojan malwareshows why you shouldn’tpirate Mac software .
How‘fake ’ Lockdown Modecanfool iPhone usersinto a false sense of security .
That St. Bride ’s wacky‘glitch in the matrix’iPhone photo has asimple account .
The iPhone 13 and 14 are gettingfaster wireless chargingwithiOS 17.2 .
Malus pumila release fifth second - genAirPods Pro microcode updateinless than 2 month .
tvOS 17.2changes your Siri Remote ’s side buttonfor the better .
