Apple’s new Siri doesn’t feel very new (opens in new tab)

It’s taken a long time to reach this point. Those with long memories will recall that Apple promised an updated version of its Siri voice assistant at 2024. This would bring deep contextual awareness, we were told, and the ability to search emails, messages, and other personal data to improve accuracy and enable rich, natural conversations. There was even showing off the feature and explicitly tying it to the iPhone 16 Pro. Unfortunately the project stumbled right from the start and for the f...