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It complements the UI by summarizing properly: “Will it rain tonight?” and “Set an alarm for 6am” are the only two usecases I’ve been satisfied with, but they work much better than the UI.

I’m not sure it’s worth the development time. But it’s like: Let’s create a UI with all info we think the user wants, and everything else will be done by Siri.

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But we asked Siri if it was going to rain, it said unequivocally no, we didn’t take umbrellas or raincoats and it rained. We got soaked :(

This isn't inherent to voice assistants though (which is what this subthread is about). Siri is a known, particularly poor implementation of a voice assistant. I don't have an Alexa, but I just moved to a city where rainy days come out of nowhere. My Google Home is concise and precise about the chance that I'll need an umbrella, including what time the chance of rain starts.

I don’t know if it’s related but the weather app on iOS frequently takes minutes to update the weather for my location even when looking directly at the app. It’s incredibly annoying and has led me to believe the weather was going to be completely different more than once.

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