Not sure where you’re coming from with this; She’s an elderly devout Catholic, given a voice-controlled device by her son, who’s actually paying the bill for the device. At no time was she actually out of pocket, and nobody made her ask the Shit Genie (I have to say at this point I absolutely love that name for it!) to do something she’d be doing in church. That’s not a grift, but charging without making it absolutely clear that in asking the device to do this would incur a monthly cost is unacceptable.
I don’t have one of these devices, I don’t use Siri, although there are occasions when I’m driving I can see a use for it.
I would love a couple of the original HomePods, because they apparently sound amazing, but I doubt very much I’d enable Siri; “Hey, Siri, what’s the weather?” “Hey, asshole, look out of the fucking window!”
I have weather apps that will give me a full rundown of the day’s weather, complete with precipitation radar, I don’t need Siri.
Elderly woman signed up for recurring subscription after asking voice assistant to say the Hail Mary
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