Apple Updates Siri in Canada with Improved Time and Weather Capabilities
Gary Ng
When Siri first launched in Canada, the personal assistant was limited in what it could answer, and that included both data, time, and the weather without phrasing questions in a specific way. If you look back to our Siri hands on article, you’ll see the service had difficulty answering a simple question such as, ‘What...
Apple Updates Siri in Canada with Improved Time and Weather Capabilities is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource
source: www.iphoneincanada.ca
13 Mar 2012
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