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>"Sorry, I can't help you with that while you're in the car"

I was on the way to an important meeting that didn't have enough time to prepare for. I needed to read a very long blog post and so I pulled up the page before I got in the car and once I was on the highway, I asked Siri to "speak screen"and got this asinine response. WTH? This is the primary use case for having Siri read something to me. What idiot thought this was somehow necessary for safety?

That day, Siri was the tipping point from Apple being a company that delighted me to one that infuriated me.



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