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I'm honestly not sure why Siri sucks so much. Apple could probably hire 10,000 employees to manually train for various scenarios brute-force (10,000 x $200K (salary + admin) = $2B), and it would still be chump change to them.

We don't choose it based on that only because it doesn't work very well. Some technologies have to be magical and great to really take off.

For example, imagine if self-driving was everything that was ever promised. Sales of cars without it would plummet.

I use Siri to set timers, like for the pasta that I am cooking. It does pretty well with that. Every once in a while I get a 30 minute timer instead of a 13 minute timer.

> how often do people choose a phone based on the quality of the voice assistant?

Must be a fair few for the amount of money Apple makes on every new release.