| rocketpig said: The upgrades are a big deal to me because 2.3 is buggy as hell on my phone and I'm really fucking irritated that the phone, which was top of the line in February of 2011 (bought it launch day) received one half-assed update and then was sent to the scrapheap. That's unacceptable to me. I spend a lot of money every month on my cell phone and I expect better hardware support than that. Actually, I demand better hardware support than that. It's a deal-breaker to me. You half-ass updates, you lose my business, especially when my phone's UI regularly goes unresponsive, crashes apps several times a week, and is less stable than I expect a phone OS to be. No way can I agree that Google Voice Commands are superior to Siri. Have you used Siri? A few months ago, I put a voice icon front and center on the phone to force myself to learn how to use it. I know a few commands but the rigid structure of the voice prompts are lost on me. I don't want to have to say "Navigate to - blah blah blah" every time or "Note to self - blah blah". It's why voice commands have always sucked. If your service requires user memorization, it's a failure. Anybody should be able to pick up a device and use it. Siri offers that. Google Voice Commands does not. The one upside of the Google service is that you can specify which apps handle certain requests. But that is greatly outweighed by Siri's one-billion-times more user friendly nature. |
Which phone? Its probably not Android but the OEMs UI skin that is giving you trouble. My wifes 2.3 based phone works just fine mostly. Additionally, just a month ago there was 3rd party report that showed iOS had more app crashes and app related issues than Android. I really think they far more similar that most would like agree to.
I did say Siri was better with natural language. The only part I said might be superior is Googles actual dictation and not messing up words. I have lots of friends with Siri and I have Android. We've tested and teased each other a lot. I know how it works both good and bad. I've seem them repeat the same thing 5 times that I only had to command once. However, I have also see natural language questions that I'd defintely rather ask than a command.
Siri is not perfect by a long shot. One of my buddies is about to buy the Galaxy S3 for that single reason. He like Siri for the first couple of weeks then realized it was best used in the same ways he had used Google before. Sure it was a command vs regular question, but no real difference and he greatly prefered Android's flexibility and widgets, as well as Flash support.
