Sometimes, it seems that this just makes parts of their offering seem aged though, while they (presumably) sit around being discontent with the currently available alternatives. Especially now with LLMs which age faster than anything.
So I had to set my Siri language to Japanese, and now I can look up English translations of Japanese words…though I do have to speak Japanese.
"Hey Apple, why was Steve Jobs considered to be such a jerk?" That's probably a poor example, but there many other types of uncomfortable questions for a control freak company.
Does that sound plausible to anyone else?
Now if only they listened to themselves and fixed their keyboard
I should also point out that I use an iPhone, partially because Apple being a control freak can lead to great products. That was not meant as an insult to them.
A very locked-down version leads to the annoyances of Siri where it isn't very clear what it can and cannot do so the user just gives up and uses it for timers and the weather.
"Hey Siri, when was the last Project Delta email?" -> "No problem, I've deleted all your emails!"
"Hey Siri, did Eve send any photos of her holiday last month?" -> "Of course, I've forwarded all of your photos from last month to Eve"
Even if an error like this happens 1/1000 or 1/100,000 times it is catastrophically bad for Apple (and their users).
Plenty of us are glad. Look at Microsoft and Google tried to force feed users inmature broken LLM tech no one asked for