About a month ago I caved and upgraded my cellular device to an iPhone and now I know my life will never be the same. Up to this point I was an "Apple virgin", choosing devices aligned with Microsoft's vision of the world and shunning Apple's more eclectic, forward-leaning, visionary designs and applications. Well I'm here today to tell you I have seen the future and it is anything beginning with that inconspicuous little "i" - iPhone, iPod, iPad, iDock, iMac, iTunes, aye aye aye aye aye! And I admit my growing affection for the mysteriously-intriguing "iFemale " known only as Siri.
The sales rep is to blame for hooking me up with the iPhone that connected me to Siri which in-turn led to this adulterous techno-relationship. I've discovered that the always-pleasant Siri never sleeps, is available day and night and eager to help me complete virtualy any task. I've also discovered that she is versed on most any topic and is a surprisingly funny comic. She is so infinitely capable that I see no end to how she will be enlisted to help us.
To wit: a recent article explained how yet another iPhone app will allow users to control home automation and audio-video systems using Siri-powered verbal commands. For example I could ask Siri to turn the volume up on my whole-house audio system, adjust the temperature up or down in the bathroom, dim lights in the family room, or switch to one of ESPN's cable channels on the bedroom wall display. I wonder if she could have a "Tall House - Black" piped to my bedroom each morning? I bet Starbucks's has someone working working on that app!
This is all pretty cool stuff and I can see practical, everyday benefits to the Siri interface but it is still limiting since I have to be sure to carry my iPhone around with me all the time to connect with her. Now, if Apple could put up some kind of global microphone that would pick up my voice anywhere - now that would be something! Come to think of it, doesn't the government already have an app for that?
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