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Siri Won't Answer Some Questions If You're Not Subscribed To Apple Music
AmiMoJo writes: A tweet from Tom Conrad has highlighted an issue with Apple's Siri digital assistant. When asked certain questions about music, Siri refuses to answer unless you subscribe to Apple Music. Instead of falling back to a web search for the information, Siri tells the user that it cannot respond due to the lack of a subscription. Apple Music has been the source of music related data for Siri since it launched, but until now did not require a subscription to answer questions.
I am, a little, if only because it actually requires more work to create the error-state that causes it to spit-back the answer regarding subscriptions than it does to simply search from the rest of the available information on the Internet, such that two different users may get different results depending on what's in Apple's database that may not be available to one of them.
It is not an error-state, it is Siri's new job as an Apple sales person rather than an information service.
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
It's probably that the API that serves the information has been modified to authenticate using the subscription to make it more secure (eg to prevent other sites leeching its information). As a result Siri can no longer use the API without having a subscription to authenticate with.
I think it is very interesting (and faulty reasoning) that apple decided that this would make more people subscribe to apple music, instead of making them get really annoyed at siri and possibly start looking for alternatives.
Most of my friends that have iphones never use siri at all because whatever she can do, they have to repeat themselves enough that they can do it manually faster.
It is not an error-state, it is Siri's new job as an Apple sales person rather than an information service.
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
Siri has been an Apple salesrobot since it was bought by them.
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
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The transformation is nearly complete.
Siri seems to be searching wikipedia just fine for music queries for me with the 9.2 beta, so it seems like just a bug that the conspiracy theorists are blowing out of proportion again. I suspect they will likely take credit for pressuring Apple to fix when it is released even though the fix was actually out before this hyped up FUD.
This is where all of computing is now. Most online companies have the ability now to nudge their UI and behaviors in ways to drive customers.
Good-bye
It's just apple being apple.
More like Apple being Microsoft. Same thing I suppose.
The "type A" sociopaths who tend to run large corporations generally want the same thing. Microsoft just managed to actually do it. There's nothing special about Apple or (in the past) IBM, either. It's the position they all want to be in.
This is simply the dark side of marketing departments.
You make it sound like there is a light side.
Only if you forget to turn them over once in a while when staking them to the top of an ant-hill and covering them with honey.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.