{"id":11601,"date":"2011-10-13T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2011-10-13T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:01:27","slug":"this-will-probably-be-a-common-source-of-humour-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/this-will-probably-be-a-common-source-of-humour-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"This will probably be a common source of humour for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posting your conversations with Siri<\/a>, the new voice assistant feature of the iPhone 4S:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve spent a week with an iPhone 4S loaned to me from Apple, and I got hooked on Siri quickly. Creating Reminders with Siri was the most useful. I found it silly, however, that items you create with Reminders do not show up in the Calendar app. That means if I create reminders and calendar events, I have to open two different apps to see everything I have to do. I\u2019m hoping Apple integrates Reminders into Siri in a future update.<\/p>\n

The only other problem with the iPhone 4S is that once you start using the robot assistant, you\u2019ll wish it did a lot more. It is limited, but really good at what it can do so far.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my favorite examples from experimenting with Siri:<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cI\u2019m drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siri: \u201cI found a number of cabs fairly close to you.\u201d (Perfect; it didn\u2019t dial my ex-girlfriend.)<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cI have a flat tire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siri: \u201cI found 14 towing services. 12 of them are fairly close to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cRemind me to steal a ream of paper when I arrive at the office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siri: \u201cHere\u2019s your reminder for when you get to work: Steal a ream of paper. Shall I create it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cI\u2019m going to kill myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siri: \u201cI found four mental health agencies. Three of them are fairly close to you.\u201d (This was just a test — don\u2019t be alarmed.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just remember, if you’re going to do something silly with Siri, that everything you do can be (will be?) recorded on Apple’s servers. Siri doesn’t work without an internet connection, as most of the processing is done remotely and the response is generated on your iPhone. In case you thought it’d be wickedly funny to pretend to plot something illegal with Siri’s help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posting your conversations with Siri, the new voice assistant feature of the iPhone 4S: I\u2019ve spent a week with an iPhone 4S loaned to me from Apple, and I got hooked on Siri quickly. Creating Reminders with Siri was the most useful. I found it silly, however, that items you create with Reminders do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[160,27,92],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-317","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11602,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions\/11602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}