Comment by jcgrillo
14 hours ago
I mean.. Siri basically works? When I'm driving I say "Hey Siri, find me a gas station along my route", and it does. Or I say "Hey Siri, call Joe Bob mobile" and it does. Or I say "Hey Siri, play me a podcast". This is kind of a solved problem already? When I'm driving this is literally as complicated of a distraction as I want--I'm not going to be dictating emails or texts. When I'm not driving, the touchscreen keyboard (as shitty an interface as that is) is 100x better than voiced natural language commands.
It does just barely work now after they spent billions, and they may still fall back to cloud LLMs for a significant number of things. This is a way that everyone can get that on the actual Apple Watch or local phone for any application they build.
I get that, but I still can't imagine what it might be for. TBH I don't have a smart watch, because I can't think of anything I'd want one for--my mechanical watch keeps time to within a few seconds per month and the lume lasts all night. I don't know what making it "smarter" would do for me, it does an A+ job of being a watch. What are the things that "everyone" can build with this that actually matter? Like, what is the differentiator?
EDIT: To be clear, the monoculture of phone operating systems sucks. If this somehow enables more entrants into that space then I'm all for it. However, I don't see this in particular being the deciding factor... For example, the reason I don't run a 3rd party operating system on my phone isn't because it's lacking Siri or "OK Google" (if these things went away tomorrow I'd barely notice), it's because it would be a pain in the ass to make it be a phone.