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by epaga·12y ago·view on hn ↗
What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta.

I would have expected/hoped that it would be possible to simply silently improve the server-side algorithms because of all the data being sent in and analysed. But so far it's been a big disappointment. Google Now is far better and more useful.

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>> "What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta."

Siri exited beta with iOS 7. As for updates there have been quite a lot but nothing major. They added new more human sounding voices. They added new sources (Wikipedia, Twitter). They added other functions like returning calls, playing voicemail, adjusting brightness. That was just iOS 7. iOS 6 added more I believe.

Do you mind providing examples of use cases re Google Now vs Siri? Not disagreeing with you - just haven't owned an Android device in the last year to know.
You can use Google Now on your iOS device (I guess I'm assuming you have an iOS device). Just download the Google App for iOS.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id284815942?mt=8

At least I think that's Google Now. It looks similar though maybe it's missing some features?

Of course with it not being integrated into the experience it's not quite the same. (can't appear on your home screen etc...)

this talks about some of the added features in the app over time http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961636