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Amazon has publicly walked back from Alexa because turns out people don't use it for much beyond creating a timer and it doesn't make money.

I think it's quite likely that Apple realized the same quite a bit earlier and eased up on Siri versus focusing on other things.



Honestly I observe zero progress in the last 10 years. My first iPhone was 4S. My current iPhone is 8. My use-case is absolutely the same. Calls, SMS, Whatsapp, navigation, books, browser. The same with macs. I boot, open IDE, Terminal and that's about it. Yes, hardware's getting faster (which is compensated by software getting slower). But nothing changed dramatically.

I think that the only thing that changed is adoption of fingerprint reader. Both in iPhone 8 and in mac.

AI might be that thing that could tremendously change my usage pattern. But it should be as smart as human assistant. GPT4-level intelligence might have the necessary power for that.




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