Apple is working on improving user choice, at least in the EU, by updating its operating systems to allow users in the European Union to switch from Siri to third-party voice assistants as their default option for the first time.
Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett for Bloomberg Businessweek:
To meet expected European Union regulations, the company is now working on changing its operating systems so that, for the first time, users can switch from Siri as their default voice assistant to third-party options, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Barring a major leap with Apple’s products, many users may make that switch.
MacDailyNews Take: The day Grok is as integrated as Siri in Apple’s operating systems is the day the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, HomePod, Apple TV, and Apple Vision immediately go from clueless to genius!
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I hate my stupid Siri. I’d switch to literally any other major AI assistant in a heartbeat.
IMHO, the day that Grok/Elon is “as integrated as Siri in Apple’s operating systems is the day” you hand over the totality of your private data stored in iPhone etc. to whoever wants to purchase it.
I think Siri is stupid too, but “Elon” ?
Nahhh
Your TDS is showing.
If you think Google, OpenAI, etc. are better stewards of your private data than Grok, you’re high.
If you only want Apple — which has shown complete ineptitude with Siri for well over decade, to provide a personal assistant, when Grok can literally have a full conversation with you, executing a wide range of commands correctly, today — to provide a digital assistant to Apple device users, you’re a masochist.