So who actually see's themselves using Siri everyday?

[dhy8386]

I disagree with this. People still look weird with bluetooth headsets. In fact, I'd say they were weirder than ever up until iPhone 4S. With Siri however, I can see bluetooth actually being useful for something other than car syncing.

You must live in a little village, no disrespect. Walk down the streets of New York or Boston and its common place.

 

[Geckotek]

I NEVER use Facetime....but hope to find a reason to someday.

I am finding myself using Siri more and more an I realize what she can do. I woke up this morning and wanted to sleep in another 45 minutes instead of hitting snooze. Just told Siri to wake me @ 8:15...done. SOOOO much easier than opening the clock app and setting another alarm.

Replying to texts while driving...pretty good...not perfect, but as I get better at learning the limitations, I think it will become more and more useful.

 

[Wicked1]

Nope rarely use it, only when driving and sometimes it doesn't know who I am trying to call, but I will mostly use it while driving with HANDS Free

 

[thelatinist]

I use Siri fairly frequently, but I use the dictation feature every day. This is the best thing to come to the iPhone since Copy & Paste.

And, yes, I realize that it could be done with an app before, but that is nothing like having it always available system wide in any application I want to enter text into.

 

[Jay42]

Well I don't see any reason to set the alarm clock manually, unless you can't make any noise for whatever reason. So I use Siri once a day just for that.

I am also discovering that it is much faster for certain things. I moved a calendar appointment in a fraction of the time it would take conventionally.

 

[robdam1001]

I've been using Siri every day since Launch Day. Mostly for writing texts with some calendar appointments sprinkled in.

 

[sakau2007]

You must live in a little village, no disrespect. Walk down the streets of New York or Boston and its common place.

I do. I live in Alabama. I see more people in the projects wearing these as a sign of wealth like big rims on a car or expensive sneakers more than I see businessmen using them.

That's probably why I see it as silly looking.

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I use Siri fairly frequently, but I use the dictation feature every day. This is the best thing to come to the iPhone since Copy & Paste.

And, yes, I realize that it could be done with an app before, but that is nothing like having it always available system wide in any application I want to enter text into.

Agree with this. This, to me, is the best part of Siri/Voice-to-text. It is also a feature that could have easily implemented into iOS 5 but Apple simply chose to leave it out to encourage people to upgrade.

 

[TheSuperSteve]

I find myself holding my iPhone to my ear and using Siri that way in public. I love that feature. I use Siri every single day. I love it and i wouldnt wanna be without it.

 

[Geckotek]

You know she doesn't love you back, right? Apparently, she is incapable of love.

 

[Thetonyk123]

I don't have the 4S but there is a free app in the app store called vlingo and i use it pretty often for emails or facebook updates. Pretty accurate.

 

[chillhase]

i use FaceTime a lot too bad that most ppl can use it only over wlan

 

[xraydoc]

I've been using Siri daily for the last week to read aloud and respond to text messages hands-free in the car. Works right over the car's bluetooth.

 

[Roofy.]

other than just joking around with it, I use it most often for sending text while driving. I love that feature. texting while driving is the worst thing you can do .

 

[sakau2007]

other than just joking around with it, I use it most often for sending text while driving. I love that feature. texting while driving is the worst thing you can do .

yep. agree. except that you don't need an iPhone 4S and Siri to do this. voice to text is available on other platforms, and on other apps within the app store.

 

[gentlefury]

I NEVER use Facetime....but hope to find a reason to someday.

I am finding myself using Siri more and more an I realize what she can do. I woke up this morning and wanted to sleep in another 45 minutes instead of hitting snooze. Just told Siri to wake me @ 8:15...done. SOOOO much easier than opening the clock app and setting another alarm.

Replying to texts while driving...pretty good...not perfect, but as I get better at learning the limitations, I think it will become more and more useful.

You can actually tell Siri, wake me in 45 mins.

 

[drober30]

6) Calling people (although this is about a wash with older voice control)

Actually, if you say "Call Home Depot" Siri will bring up the closest home depots and you can click on it to dial. Very Very useful! (It works like that if you don't have one in your contacts)

 

[apd8]

I've been using Siri since day 1 and not just once or twice a day.
Calendars, reminders, notes, and voice calls fit my life style perfectly.

Anyway, I agree that it might not be as useful for many people, but then it's user's choice to buy or not to buy the phone in the first place. Even though you don't use Siri, you still can use other features.

 

[Geckotek]

You can actually tell Siri, wake me in 45 mins.

That's actually what I said now that I think of it.

 

[Roofy.]

yep. agree. except that you don't need an iPhone 4S and Siri to do this. voice to text is available on other platforms, and on other apps within the app store.

true.... but in other platforms you can't simply say "tell mark I'm coming over now". I could use the dictation but thats extra buttons. with siri, i just hold the home button and thats it.

 

[bansheebeat]

I use it everyday. Constantly using to to set alarms and reminders and appointments and other things like that. I find that when it comes to texting I'm better at just doing with like I normally would. But I've found Siri is much quicker than opening up the calender up and setting up an event and all that.

 

[marksman]

Is this just FaceTime 2.0? Who actually wants to talk to their phone in public like some World of Warcraft geek.

Isn't the whole point of text messages so that you can text them rather than speak them?

Isn't the only reason you use a keyboard for anything is because your computer can't understand what you are saying and do it for you?

I hate to break it to you, but the keyboard did not come to comptuers as some kind of revolutionary input device. There used to be this thing that punched ink onto paper called a typewriter. Computer makers just stole the typewriter and moved it over to computers to use it. There was literally no thought given to it as an appropriate input device.

Talking your text message makes more sense than mashing your phone typing it.

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I wouldn't ever set a timer for a lunch break manually, even though the functionality is there and it'd be really easy to do. I guess if Siri would do it all for me and all I have to say is 1 sentence, I'd be more likely to do it... but still, I'm not so sure.

I kind of feel this way about almost everything Siri does. It makes things a little easier, but how much easier? Is it really that taxing to set an alarm by hand? I can do it in about 15 seconds. If Siri works on the first try, I guess I can do it in 5-7 seconds. If for whatever reason it doesn't and it takes more than 1 try to get it set, then I would have been better off just setting the alarm by hand.

The time issue is not the biggest part.. It is the effort part. it simply takes way less effort to set your alarm with siri then it is to do it manually. Add this up for all the times you might use it, and you can save a lot of effort. Not to mention how much it opens up the access to do these things in circumstances where typing them is simply not possible.

All people who have human assistants do not necessarily need them, but they help to make their life easier. Siri does the same thing in its own way.

 

[vitzr]

Siri appeals to those who need to be validated. Or are easily amused.

It's an ego booster for those who need to feel special.

If everyone who had a cell phone, had Siri, the honeymoon would be over.

Here in the walled garden, Siri will be fawned over for a very long time.

 

[Airmark1]

I use it a lot. I will use it till a robot is with me at all times.

 

[Airmark1]

Siri appeals to those who need to be validated. Or are easily amused.

It's an ego booster for those who need to feel special.

If everyone who had a cell phone, had Siri, the honeymoon would be over.

Here in the walled garden, Siri will be fawned over for a very long time.

Umm. Perhaps. But so is: radio, tv, microwave, computer, cotton candy machine etc.

I use it in a practical way every day.

If I could, I would send Siri over to you and smack you. Ok. Probably not. If she could walk around I'd ask her to do some laundry. We have a lot to do.

 

[vitzr]

If I could, I would send Siri over to you and smack you. Ok. Probably not

Ten Points, for the great humor. This made me laugh so hard... Wow!

That's pretty significant since I have a great sense of humor and already laugh a lot every single day.

But this... was just brilliant