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I'm just waiting for Siri to reliably set timers when I'm cooking. Between my watch and my phone, it's a damn nightmare to actually do the most basic thing with what should be a ubiquitous AI platform. They've had ages to make it better and some great minds in their employ, and yet they've really not done much. That said, if and when they do, they have immediate distribution and proof points to sell oodles more of their AI-enabled products and wearables...

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Funny you raise that, as this is one of the very few tasks that Siri does do reliably for me :)

(Along with just-about-good-enough speech-to-text, if I speak clearly, and checking on the weather outside.)

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But yes, totally agree with your underlying point about the huge opportunity that Apple is leaving on the table with their lackluster approach to Siri.

"A nightmare" really? For something as trivial as that? Why not just buy a physical timer then?

Well, when I’m doing something and I need a timer, especially cooking and my hands are occupied or dirty, rummaging for a timer to manually set makes no sense when I should have a voice assistant on my wrist/in earshot.

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