Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down

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Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down - Lemmy.world

I ask Siri to make phones calls and set a timer. I know these companies wanted us to use voice assistants more often but for me it was always faster to pick up my phone and do it myself. This reminds me of last year when articles were circulating about Amazons Alexa costing the company $3bn in the first quarter of 2022.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company’s biggest money loser.

Ars Technica

I tried using Bixby to set a calendar entry in 30 days and it spiraled into the question when the entry should be set. After 3 minutes trying everything I could think of (explicit date/time etc) I stopped and created the entry within seconds manually…

These assistants are interesting, when they work properly… :/

Bixby is a really bad example, though. It can barely set a timer.
Yeah true but I was curious what it could do. As it turned out… Not that much.