Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, March 15th, 2018. Today, Apple's Troubles with Siri.

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Nest launches a video doorbell, Google answers with no search results, and Drake crashes

Twitch.

Here's the news you missed today in the world of tech. There's a big piece that was published this week over at the information which has

been getting a lot of attention online.

It's behind the information's paywall, but definitely read it if you can,

and actually maybe consider subscribing to the information because they do really excellent,

deeply reported pieces like this one.

The piece in question is all about Siri, how Apple launched it seven years ago full of promise,

the leader in the voice assistant space, and about how Apple has possibly lost

that lead as Series technology has somewhat withered on the vine. The

information interviewed about a dozen former employees who worked on various teams responsible

for the Siri ecosystem, and a lot of them are withering in their criticisms, describing

petty turf battles and unresolved internal debates, for instance

about Siri's true purpose, should Siri be, quote, quick and accurate information fetcher or a conversant and intuitive

assistant capable of complex tasks. According to the piece Siri was rushed

into the iPhone 4 before the technology was really fully

ready.

And even to this day there are those inside Apple who want to rip out the existing Siri infrastructure and start from scratch.

When Alexa shipped, it was rock solid from day one, a former Siri team member laments in the piece,

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