My first thought before clicking through to read the article was: This is about the torture of using automated receptionist systems.
It was bad enough when you had to go through a wall of numbers. Now, with speech recognition, it is probably ten times worse: "In a few words, tell me what...". I am so sick of it I usually end-up saying something like "attendant" or "real person" repeatedly until the thing drops down to the last "else:" statement and connects me to a person.
As far as some of what the article covers, this is one of the reasons for which I still use wired earbuds. The wires have never been a problem. I just don't want to deal with the nonsense. For example, I was watching a movie in bed on my iPad one night. The wireless earbuds disconnected and sound came blasting out, waking my wife.
In addition to this, CarPlay implementations just seem awful. Not sure if this is on Apple, the radio manufacturer, the car maker or a combination. Just yesterday, my 2020 car simply refused to connect to my iPhone X no matter what I did. Most of the time it works fine. Yesterday, I could not get CarPlay to come up if my life depended on it.
It was bad enough when you had to go through a wall of numbers. Now, with speech recognition, it is probably ten times worse: "In a few words, tell me what...". I am so sick of it I usually end-up saying something like "attendant" or "real person" repeatedly until the thing drops down to the last "else:" statement and connects me to a person.
As far as some of what the article covers, this is one of the reasons for which I still use wired earbuds. The wires have never been a problem. I just don't want to deal with the nonsense. For example, I was watching a movie in bed on my iPad one night. The wireless earbuds disconnected and sound came blasting out, waking my wife.
In addition to this, CarPlay implementations just seem awful. Not sure if this is on Apple, the radio manufacturer, the car maker or a combination. Just yesterday, my 2020 car simply refused to connect to my iPhone X no matter what I did. Most of the time it works fine. Yesterday, I could not get CarPlay to come up if my life depended on it.