#that provides solutions for nonexistent problems while enormous issues with climate and society should be solved

[suosopulius]

EDIT: Smart homes are not stupid. But they also are. But not for the elderly or those of us who are disabled, but you hardly see any solutions marketed to these segments. Also language support?

For an able bodied person it’s way easier to actually do the things by themselves rather than ask a corporate spy software living in a speaker to do the thing, have it misunderstand, repeat your request and have the task performed wrong repeatedly until you may have to do the task yourself anyway.

I can’t imagine why anyone would like living like that, unless you have disabilities, mental or physical or both. But even then smart home solutions should be better for that purpose. It’s a damn shame that we could have technology that could greatly benefit the disabled but instead we live in reality where ablebodied people use poorly designed ans poorly operating technology that’s a solution for a problem they barely have.

TLDR: I received a Homepod mini as a gift and I hate it, I think it’s stupid, and I hate Siri, because she doesn’t understand me. Also I realized that I mostly hate Apple now. No hate on Alexa or anyone’s lifestyle.