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Siri Won't Answer Some Questions If You're Not Subscribed To Apple Music

Posted by timothy on from the check-out-any-time-you-like dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Is anyone really surprised by this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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"