Comment by sandspar
7 months ago
Young people are increasingly comfortable using voice, and marketing agencies already consider Gen Alpha to be “voice native.” I once saw a small child help his grandfather with a phone issue. The grandfather fumbled with the GUI, but the child opened Siri and solved it by voice. If Apple drops the ball on voice, it may not hurt them today - but they risk losing the next decade.
> Young people are increasingly comfortable using voice
I know plenty of folks in their 40s and 50s who have used Siri as their primary way to search the internet for years.
My mom does everything through voice on her iPhone. My son defaults to using Siri on Mac for a ton of things. He grew up with an Alexa. It's really the in between generation who learned how to master a computer at a young age that don't really use it.
My in-laws use Siri/voice interactions almost exclusively, dictating text messages out-loud, searching for shows on Roku using the voice remote, etc.
Even my 2.5 year old will ask Alexa and Siri to do things, sometimes far away from any device that could respond.