siri was under performing for years: im a 'heavy' user - it's been terrible. it worked better in 2012 and slowly got worse. it's acceptable in 2025 but not good.
the siri division was caught nlp-ing anonymized data and totally sideswiped by llms. they have not transitioned. generally apple finds a Moses (like they did with m1 chips), hires a cracked team to build out but.. the salaries they offer don't touch openai or anthropic and who wants to work with nut that was building out siri initially? the guy is terrible
steve would have gutted the siri team. switched to a <100 person team and they'd have something nice 2025, even unique. apple is the team i expected to have deepseek type innovations on limited hardware. instead she wants to search the internet for what my local humidity levels are.