This is a strangely important article, as this is literally the dumbest feature ever devised and it's shocking and bizarre that we're all sort of annoyed by how terrible it is on devices we've paid so much money for.
I was in a rideshare with my wife as we were headed back home from a concert last week. We had spent literally hours within a couple of feet with each other. We were literally leaning on each other, exhausted from the show, heading to the same place. Siri popped up to recommend she check in to let me - the person literally next to her - know when she'd be home. Good job, Apple.
I regularly get notifications when I'm out and about to check in to share the time it will take for me to get to my home with my elderly mother, who I have a good relationship with but who literally lives across the country, and who I have not lived in the same house with since 1990.
This is an extraordinarily badly designed feature, and it's truly bizarre that it made it into production in this state. If we're all paying nearly $1k for a phone, it shouldn't be nagging us with literally bizarre suggestions all the time.
Like with the absurd lack of iPad-like flipkeys or GBoard-like punctuation shortcuts on the iOS keyboard, things like this really make me wonder if Tim Cook actually uses his own iPhone or if he just has an assistant to manage his affairs. If I were a CEO of one of the world's most powerful companies and had issues like these with my own product, I would be like... this is going to change in the next point release.
