Hey Apple... How about giving us the ability to Nuke Siri (enhanced or not) entirely from our devices?
Then those of us who don't talk to OUR devices or want them to talk to us peace of mind.
Well? The ball is in your court...
I use Siri all the time, although it's often a love/hate relationship. Favorite things for me to say to Siri, and almost all while my hands are full, inside gloves, or too dirty, greasy, or contaminated to touch my phone, iPad, or watch screen:
Hey Siri...
...Resume playback
...Pause playback
...Fast forward 30 seconds (or 1 minute or 90 seconds); very useful to skip commercials in podcasts
...Rewind 30 seconds (or .. same as above, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes)
...how do I spell perspicacious (or peripatetic, or flibbertigibbet)
...will it rain today?
...what will be the high/low temperature today/tomorrow?
...Who won the (name of team mascot) game last night?
...How late is (name of business) open tonight? Often followed by "take me there" (to invoke GPS directions)
...yes (when the phone rings and it's somebody I like and she wants to know if I wish to answer the call)
...no (when it's somebody I don't like who's calling me)
...how many adults own firearms in the US?
...how many adults live in the US?
...how many adults own more than one firearm in the US?
...how many firearm deaths are caused by gang members?
Those last 4 questions were from some recent research I was doing. I also asked the same questions of Alexa, and I found out that suicides are a lot, killings by gangs are a lot more (to the point that the worst lawbreakers who kill the most people are in fact gang members), and mass-killings by people not in a gang are a lot less than you think. A lot lot lot LOT less. Yeah, to the point that I think I know how to almost virtually eliminate violent crime in America.
Siri, and her cousin Alexa, are not the end-all/be-all of voice assistants, and in fact they suck kind of a lot. But to have them and not use them as effectively as I can...that would be irresponsible.
