Re:Google's True Moonshot
by ben_w on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:05AM
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Conversely, I've recently had Apple software mess up in a whole bunch of different ways:
• Maps doesn't understand that I don't own a car, defaults to driving sometimes
• Autocorrupt rather than autocorrect
• Calendar suggestions only work for the simplest of dates, so it suggested an event for the wrong month
• One case where it seemed to think the only timezone in the world was California
(It's not all negatives: for me, Apple has the least wrong voice transcription AI, and I do like their computational photography and definitely the ability to select text in images and Safari's website translation — but even then I don't think they're way ahead of the rest with these things, and website translation was definitely behind).
• Maps doesn't understand that I don't own a car, defaults to driving sometimes
• Autocorrupt rather than autocorrect
• Calendar suggestions only work for the simplest of dates, so it suggested an event for the wrong month
• One case where it seemed to think the only timezone in the world was California
(It's not all negatives: for me, Apple has the least wrong voice transcription AI, and I do like their computational photography and definitely the ability to select text in images and Safari's website translation — but even then I don't think they're way ahead of the rest with these things, and website translation was definitely behind).