2023-10-06 12:30:00
Although it certainly brought more practicality to users of the company’s personal assistant, Applethe possibility of activating the Siri just calling her by her name had the opposite effect on her life. Siri Price, personal trainer British woman who was forced to change her name so as not to accidentally wake up smartphones.
In an interview with the tabloid The Sun, Price highlighted that the name chosen by Apple had already caused problems when the assistant was launched. At the time, however, she managed to contain the damage by simply suggesting that friends and clients not use “Hey” when calling her — which, until this year, was a requirement to activate Siri on the iPhone.
With the most recent change (still only in English), Price began to realize that his old solution was no longer having as much effect, as users can now activate the shorter option to activate Apple’s assistant. According to her, even her boyfriend said that her smartphone was “awake” every time he called her.
“My co-workers had to sit down and think of a workaround because people’s phones kept ringing,” said Price, who works at a busy gym and, of course, is constantly called by name to fill orders. of customers.
The solution? She came to be called Siz. ????
Although it is not very common here, the name Siri is even popular in other parts of the world — in Old Norse, for example, it means “beautiful woman who leads you to victory”. “There are a lot of people called Siri and their lives have become unbearable because of this,” Price commented on the mess she found herself in.
It’s a problem that many real-life Alexas have certainly had to face after the popularization of Amazon’s eponymous virtual assistant, which can also be called just by name. Unlike Siri, however, Alexa is not present on most smartphones, being more common in home environments.
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