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Originally Posted by TorqueDog

My greatest fears have been confirmed; people are becoming more and more helpless. "Remind me I need gas at 9 am tomorrow"?? Dude, the fuel gauge on the car should tell you that you need to refuel, you really need your phone to tell you this stuff? More importantly, you really needed the capability of a voice command processor to do it for you? Some of this just seems so damn trivial. "What's the weather going to be like?" Click the weather icon. "What am I doing tomorrow?" Click the calendar icon. This just seems like such a ridiculous gimmick to me.

I mean, I get some of the benefits of voice recognition; I have voice prompts that allow me to have texts dictated to me and allow me to answer them while I'm driving, but as far as I'm concerned, that's an extension of the capability of hands-free.

Honestly, who wants to have a conversation with their phone? The unfortunate thing is that - because Apple made it - Siri is going to catch fire and everyone will be scrambling to make similar AIs for their devices.

The interfaces on phones have advanced so that everything was quickly accessible with one or two clicks at the most. Now you have to spend five seconds actually speaking aloud what you want the phone to do? The most common defense will be "Well how else am I supposed to do this while driving?" How about just paying attention to the road?

This is what it looks like when technology leaves you behind.