Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by gnicholas on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:44PM
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Oh man, it gets worse than that. After updating to iOS 17 the other day, I said to my phone "play OverCast" (my podcast app). It used to start playing from that app. This time, it started playing a band called Overcast, and told me I had just started a 7 day free trial of Apple Music. What the actual fuck.
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brb, starting a band called "Spotify" and opening a 24/7 convenience store called "Google Maps"
It's not a bug, it's a feature. People have done crazier things — and didn't Jobs once say that part of the reason he named the company Apple was because it would be before Atari in the phone book? [1]
1: https://www.macworld.com/article/673923/why-is-apple-called-...).
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by nipponese on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:51AM
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Not just in the phone books. Ever wonder why the stock ticker has two A’s?
If you’re picking stocks by order of the alphabet you deserve what you get.
Which, incidentally, was a tremendous return.
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by nipponese on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:49PM
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Once upon a time, stocks were listed alphabetically in something called newspapers.
That's...genius.
You don't need iOS17 for Siri to do things like that, It hapeenes on many other versions of iOS (or in my case Homekit)
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by gnicholas on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:00AM
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I realize it was possible before. My point is that now it's the only way for me to set the lights to be a color other than what my presets happened to be when I upgraded to iOS 17.
No I meant that Siri before iOS17 would have these problems.
It is not new to iOS 17 - well it might be for your setup but others have had these issues with earlier versions.
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:23AM
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Meanwhile, at Apple: "Users really love the update! Trial signups are up 438% over the previous quarter!"
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by dncornholio on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:20AM
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How is this "It gets worse"?
iOS has to assume what you mean with play OverCast. Maybe there are other people that wanted the device to play the band? This is such an edge-case which is easily solved by further specifying your prompt.
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by i_don_t_know on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:45AM
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It's not just playing the wrong band / app. It's signing you up for a subscription. You still have time to cancel before you have to pay. But it's one more thing you have to worry about now.
It should have confirmed that you're fine with subscribing if that's what you have to do to listen to the band. And it's also fine to play the wrong band if you have a subscription already.
It knows a) whether you have overcast installed and when was it last used, b) whether you added the overcast band to your favourites or ever explicitly played one of their songs. I'm sure there's some tiny section where the the extra prompt would be useful, but they could be so much better than that.
Re:macOS Sonoma is available today
by happytiger on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:54AM
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How is that legal? Jeebus.