danielito

Sure, Donny, that happened.

Really, who cares how Siri looks now? The most prevalent use case for a voice assistant is no screens at all, think HomePod or car.

And that's where the biggest downside is. The sheer amount of "I found some results and can show them to you on your iPhone" or "I cannot answer this while you are driving" is mind boggling for something that should help users do stuff without physical interaction with their devices. I'm as big an Apple fanboy as the next guy, but I hate how Apple has been so slow on anything Siri related—especially the consistency and seamlessness across devices, which has been Apple's hallmark.

We are clearly moving in the direction of voice interaction (here's looking at you, Picard) and if Apple would spend half the time on developing Siri properly than it does on super-important stuff like phones that are 0.00001 inch thinner than last year's or teaching their employees ridiculous hand gestures for presentations, they'd be scorching the competition and making all of us much happier.

What is this sound recognition nonsense?
If your music is so loud that you don't hear a siren, turn it down.
And if your hearing is so impaired that you wouldn't hear a siren then you should not be driving.