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Re:Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom by conradfr on Monday April 16, 2012 @07:22AM (#3846889)
Do people really use Siri (except to demo it) ?
Re:Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom by kamaal on Monday April 16, 2012 @07:29AM (#3846905)
I don't know as I don't own an iPhone.

But the concept itself is frightening to Google. It can enable searching when you are driving, taking a shower or whenever you can't use your hands to search. And a great deal of people come into that category.

And it can be a big thing in the future. And going by Apple's reputation they can leverage it to some amazing things.

Imagine a consumer Apple TV. TV's can't have keyboards but they can have a mike. Imagine finding information through speech. That can really be a killer feature, searching and finding information by just talking through a TV connected to the Internet.

Now this is just tip of the iceberg. Siri can be disruptive in almost device/scenario where a keyboard is not a practical source of input. Going by how small things are getting, Siri is the thing of the future.