That's like claiming Wolfram Alpha isn't distinct from Google, because Google will occasionally hazard a guess at a canonical answer (if you formulate your search query precisely correctly).
Sure, Google does attempt such things some times. And it's genuinely useful if you know the syntax to make it happen more-often-than-not. But that remains qualitatively different from what Siri (and Wolfram Alpha) are doing.
> "Siri is a bad example of something ground-breaking that Apple created."
Only when you beg the question of whether it makes objective sense to try to parse out the parentage of technology as some qualifying factor.
That's like claiming Wolfram Alpha isn't distinct from Google, because Google will occasionally hazard a guess at a canonical answer (if you formulate your search query precisely correctly).
Sure, Google does attempt such things some times. And it's genuinely useful if you know the syntax to make it happen more-often-than-not. But that remains qualitatively different from what Siri (and Wolfram Alpha) are doing.
> "Siri is a bad example of something ground-breaking that Apple created."
Only when you beg the question of whether it makes objective sense to try to parse out the parentage of technology as some qualifying factor.