Siri, declared last fall as the main feature of the new iPhone 4S smartphone, is really dumb. At first there was really mega demand for this voice assistant feature. Much has been written about it, people were talking about it but it lasted not so long until it began to creep out the pitfalls and  dissatisfied with loud statements customers started to appear.

Is Siri Really Dumb?

As it turned out, Siri does not understand not only the foreign accent, but does not want to distinguish between average U.S. dialects. Of the five languages ​​(of which three are versions of English), only the U.S. gave more or less wide range of answers to questions. Others were limited to weather, online information search, notes and making calls. According to a survey in one UK site, only 40% of owners use the iPhone 4S voice assistant Siri. Curiously, only a third of them show off in front of friends or in unfamiliar company and does not see  a clear necessity in it. Like many other controversial situations Apple found out what to sat to the users. An inscription in small font appeared on the official site. It says that Siri still is in beta-testing and is not a complete final product. Maybe a gray label description of a new iPhone 4S sported there eve before that, but it was only noticed when Apple's lawyers drew attention to that inscription. Then who needed this pompous presentation of the iPhone 4S with Siri headed? Again, returning to the fresh UK poll, 23.8% of those surveyed owners of iPhone 4S said they do not run Siri anymore and forgot about it a week after purchase. At the same time 21.4% still hits the wall of misunderstanding and is upset every time when their question or request is pronounced it can't give a clear answer. To laugh at, joke and make a couple of funny screenshots? Is it really all what Siri appeared for? Is it really dumb? And can all those Siri ads (Siri ad 1, Siri ad 2) really help the product? Only 19.3% of respondents were satisfied with Siri. But they say that using it only to facilitate their own efforts and free hands. None of them can ask Siri to read SMS-messages or look for recipes of delicious cakes, as it was applied in the first iPhone 4S commercials. And it is hardly something can now help the blind. To tell the truth, beta is a beta - all raw and unpolished. But what has always distinguished Apple from others is the release of only exceptional products to the market: from the first polished Macintosh until recent Retina MacBook Pro. But Siri? Siri, while being in the raw and unfinished form, was the only real new feature that distinguishes the iPhone 4S from iPhone 4, and without the introduction of it the new product would have been just an everyday update of last year's smartphone. By the way, the spring release of the new iPad has not brought Siri directly to the tablet (this feature is only available in the new firmware version). What is this? The sign of the death of emergency "embryo" of artificial intelligence or low start before launching a full-fledged assistant? Time and iOS 6 will tell.