Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…

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“Hey siri, set a timer for 50 minutes” (time my dryer takes). “Timer set for 15 minutes”. Every god damn time. I say 49 minutes now.

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Meanwhile, Google Assistant has no issues with anything like this. You can even set multiple timers. Which, for some inexplicable reason, is not possible in iOS.

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It’s not a big deal if you setup a spreadsheet showing when you need each timer to go off and then simply tell Siri to set a timer for the interval between each as they complete one by one. Easy peasy.

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Yeah but it suuucks for some other things. On iOS I can say cancel my alarm and it does it. Android says something and then opens the clock app to make me do it manually. Also things like saying nevermind change that timer to xx minutes works considerably better on siri imo. They both have their strengths and weaknesses but I personally think Siri is much more optimized with iOS than any assistants ever manage to be on Android.

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My android phone doesn’t do that at all. The nest devices definitely don’t either.

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But stupidly time is a not synced between your various devices.

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You can just say ‘five zero’ and it’ll be interpreted as 50, I just tried it.

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I turned off “hey siri”, just hold down the power button now, but absolutely, you. GOT. To. Uh-Nunce-Ee-Ate. Ev-Ver-Ree-Thing. Vare-LEE. Clear-LEE.

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Just out of curiosity, does siri not have a setting where you can have it get used to your voice? I remember cortana had a whole set up process that had you say a bunch of things. I don’t enunciate well but it was able to always pick up my regular voice for stuff.

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Ee-Nunce-Ee-Ate*

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lol

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