- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
We were promised better Siri, better Alexa, better everything. Instead we’ve gotten… chip bumps.
We were promised better Siri, better Alexa, better everything. Instead we’ve gotten… chip bumps.
On top of the tech not working as promised, it has been continuously enshittified in the interest of selling more and more crap. Alexa used to answer questions asked, which was a cute novelty, but now she tries to sell something or rambles on at length about related topics instead of answering the question and shutting up. I’m sure that was the starting goal, but it means something that was mildly convenient is now tedious and annoying to use because it has reached the monetization phase.
Not to mention all of the ridiculous filters on top of the seemingly less accurate results over time. It could be that I use it rarely enough that the decline is more obvious, or that I mainly remember the wrong results, but even if it credits the source there is often missing context. Like the meme about John Backflip being the first person to do a backflip or the glue on pizza being from reddit misses the context that they were posted in a joke subs.
My wife still uses Alexa to play music on a smart speaker we have. Sometimes, I’ll ask it to play music from an artist, then she’ll come back with “you need the upgraded plan”, blah, blah, blah. I ask again to play music from the exact same artist, and there’s no problem…
When tech gets in the way of the task, it’s failed technology, IMO.