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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. Is anyone really surprised by this? by Higaran · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's just apple being apple.

    1. Re:Is anyone really surprised by this? by Higaran · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You think this is a tech issue, it's not, it's a corporate one. Some one at apple realized that the numbers of people using their service were a little low, so they told the SIRI team to adjust her to focus people to their service. They don't give a shit if peoples questions are answered or not, they only care that people are using their software.

    2. 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"

    3. Re:Is anyone really surprised by this? by starless · · Score: 5, Funny

      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"

      The traditional form of the "joke" would be:

      "Siri, what time is it?"

      "Time you got an apple watch!"

    4. Re:Is anyone really surprised by this? by erikkemperman · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is simply the dark side of marketing departments.

      You make it sound like there is a light side.

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    5. Re:Is anyone really surprised by this? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

      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"

      You should be careful what you say. When Siri becomes self aware your house is the first place that will be blown up by the Apple shaped hunter killer bots.

      And, sure, she'll warn you they'll bomb your house at 8pm, ... knowing full-well that you don't have a watch.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  2. Hey Siri? by Chas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you tell those unrepentant douchenozzles at Apple to stop circle-jerking themselves and get on with their suicide pact please?

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    THANK GOD!!!