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The new iOS rebrands Gemini as Siri - and from all accounts of the public beta, it's pretty decent, and an enormous upgrade from the current/old Siri.

I’m sure I read something about NEW SIRI somewhere. Siri isn’t just falling short, it seems to be getting actively and progressively more useless. My HomePod speakers take about 10 seconds to respond now and often get things wrong.

My HomePod speakers have now updated to iOS (or whatever) 27 and the response time is almost instant. So that’s an improvement!

Siri is still pretty awful and useless though.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose and so on.

Siri is slowly getting better, but Apple's never been about matching the industry. They've always been about being the best Apple they can be. (They haven't followed this perfectly, but they keep re-learning it's the way, every time someone tries to mess with the formula.)

I don't think the people working on new hardware is the same that the one working on Siri.