stolen from: http://myapplenewton.blogspot.com/2011/08/dilbert-compares-smartphones .html

When you search, what you want back is not a million blue links. What you want back is one correct answer.

Fark you, I want a million blue links. I want at least half a dozen correct, but different answers.

From the very end of the article:

I'm guilty of having some skin in the game

Yep. Just a press release. Nothing to see here.

Also, no one is ever "years ahead" of anyone else nowadays. Google could build something as good or better than Siri in no time. And probably are.

downstairs: From the very end of the article:

I'm guilty of having some skin in the game

Yep. Just a press release. Nothing to see here.

Honestly, I stopped reading at "according to venture capitalist".

I wanted to search pet stores for a new cat and two small birds but when I asked Siri for some fresh pussy and a nice pair of tits she slapped me. I hate Siri.

tallguywithglasseson: downstairs: From the very end of the article:

I'm guilty of having some skin in the game

Yep. Just a press release. Nothing to see here.

Honestly, I stopped reading at "according to venture capitalist".

I didn't stop reading, but yeah- I realized this from the get-go.

The dude is either deluded or just lying. Yes, Apple is ahead of the curve with Siri. Yes, it seems like a useful and cool technology. Google and Windows will have something similar in their next release. As always.

And- being the front runner is often NOT a good thing. I remember back in the dot-com bubble days everyone using the term "first mover advantage". Its complete BS. The first mover is often (not always) a lame duck that the eventual competition studies, finds flaws, and releases something better.

Look at Google as a search engine. They came on the scene much later than Alta Vista, Yahoo, Hot Bot, etc. Who's winning now?

CitizenTed: I wanted to search pet stores for a new cat and two small birds but when I asked Siri for some fresh pussy and a nice pair of tits she slapped me. I hate Siri.

Because any cat owner would tell you: also owning birds is a dissaster waiting to happen. Your pussy would have eaten your tits.

About the only thing I use the Google voice commands for on my android phone is to navigate with google maps while driving. It's completely useless for sending text messages. For some reason when I say "send text to John... on my way to Tim Hortons be there in five minutes" It sets the message with a blank send field and the message says "to john on my way to Tim Hortons be"

Completely useless at sending texts. But works great as a gps.

CitizenTed: I wanted to search pet stores for a new cat and two small birds but when I asked Siri for some fresh pussy and a nice pair of tits she slapped me. I hate Siri.

So you already had the donkey then?

.It really represents the way I believe most people will interact with computers in the future.

no
no it does not.

Ghastly: About the only thing I use the Google voice commands for on my android phone is to navigate with google maps while driving. It's completely useless for sending text messages. For some reason when I say "send text to John... on my way to Tim Hortons be there in five minutes" It sets the message with a blank send field and the message says "to john on my way to Tim Hortons be"

Completely useless at sending texts. But works great as a gps.

THIS
even once siri/clones get better at sending txts, that's all they will be good for. GPS, voice dialing, voice texting.

would we use this to write a book? fark no. to take a picture? fark no.
to write long fark.com screes? FARK NO

plus this is APPLE@!!@!
THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
like newton and all the other PDAs did?
like how segway changed everything ??

GOOGLE changed how we search. we stopped using all the other search engines and use google now.

that being said, iPods changed how we listen to music.

Ghastly: About the only thing I use the Google voice commands for on my android phone is to navigate with google maps while driving. It's completely useless for sending text messages. For some reason when I say "send text to John... on my way to Tim Hortons be there in five minutes" It sets the message with a blank send field and the message says "to john on my way to Tim Hortons be"

Completely useless at sending texts. But works great as a gps.

That actually works fine for me. I still like Siri's ability to read incoming messages, take verbal response and read back a preview, and send, without having to look at the screen.

But the "text so and so such and such" works, though I think I may have had a couple issues at first. It even works if I just say a last name for times when I have more than one contact with the same first name.

meatofmystery: No, I like choice and variety.

That's called browsing. It's a fine and respectable leisure activity. But it's not what most people want their web search to do.

I agree it's not a good plan to let a single entity become the gateway to all information, but "variety" is not useful for the common case where users are searching for well-established bits of information.

bikerific: I just loaded Siri competitor Vlingo yesterday

Oh wow, they're on the Apple App store. Wonder for how long...

tricycleracer: NutznGum: When you build a search engine and its name becomes the accepted term for actually searching for information on the internet, I think you're in a pretty safe place.

Are you sure? I'm going to Google that and see if you're right.

No, he's right. I just Binged it.

/facepalm. You suck at marketing, Microsoft.