Five Things Siri Still Needs

Depending on how you look at it, Siri is either really helpful or limited in its usefulness.

A new survey by Parks Associates found that 87 percent of respondents who own an iPhone 4S use at least one feature of Apple’s virtual assistant software on a monthly basis. Still, those users mainly stick to initiating phone calls or dictating text messages with Siri.

Other services are less popular. Roughly one third of respondents said they’d never asked Siri to play music or schedule a meeting, and 30 percent said they hadn’t used Siri for e-mail. Of the 482 iPhone 4S owners surveyed, 55 percent were satisfied with Siri, 8 percent were unsatisfied, and the rest were somewhere in between.