Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by Dalewyn on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:13AM (#35738418)

The keyboards on the Apple M Macbooks are good, having used one myself... Except there's this feeling that Macbook keyboards fundamentally "work" differently to all other keyboards out there.

I'm primarily a Windows wizard, I use my Macbook for specific tasks and it's not my daily driver. I can type on my Macbook mostly fine, but occasionally it misses some of my key inputs. I know the keyboard works, the key in question types in properly when I press it again, but nonetheless I have the occasional input go missing as I type.

I don't know why this is the case, it annoys me, and I'm left wondering if it's the keyboard with no obvious defects or my typing which works flawlessly with literally all other keyboards I ever come across.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by Daz1 on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:21AM (#35738837)

Sounds like user error, I don't have any such problems with my M2 keyboard.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by wincy on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:32AM (#35740504)

That’s interesting because I use the same keyboard with my Mac and Windows work laptop hooked up to a dock, and Windows + Teams (where I’m doing the majority of my actual typing words not code in a day) constantly has weird artifacts of switching lettering, like it’s kicking off some async process to grab keystrokes right as I open a message then flushes the buffer out of order to the application. It’s really weird and I thought it was user error at first but I’ve noticed this never happens on my Mac.

Then again Teams specifically is just kind of the worst. At least they finally added the full range of emoji reacts to messages. (Still doesn’t beat Slacks custom emojis but oh well).

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by breatheoften on Sunday April 30, 2023 @08:42AM (#35762018)

I have the same issue with slack and any facebook app frequently -- especially if you type, delete, type quickly. I think there must be some damn crdt within the draft edits feature that causes the final state not to match exactly what would be expected from the input sequence.

It's very annoying because it feels like I'm being gaslit by the device -- the errant results can pop in after some delay .... "was I misreading what I saw had been typed earlier on screen??"

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by kayodelycaon on Friday April 28, 2023 @08:34AM (#35740524)

I have this issue using some keyboards. I think it has to do with key spacing and pressure required. You could be missing the key by hitting the edge of it.

The butterfly keyboard from previous Apple laptop generations is absolute trash. Every time it takes me a few minutes to get used to it.

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