Google is promoting the speech-recognition capabilities of its Android OS for smartphones. Apple will reportedly be dramatically enhancing speech capabilities in its mobile products in the fall. Nokia and Microsoft are plugging their voice capabilities too.
I don't get it. I use my mobile device when I'm mobile -- that is, surrounded by lots of complete strangers in public places away from my home or office. The second-to-last thing I want to do is share with all of those people what I'm doing on my phone: what I'm reading, who I'm talking to, and what I'm saying to them. And the last thing I want to do is to share all of their conversations. Do you really want to spend your train ride to work every morning listening to all your fellow passengers sext their boyfriends out loud?
Sometimes silence is golden.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Man Who Carried The World
Frank Chimero on the value of online relationships:
The benchmark I’ve been using lately is to equate psychic weight with physical weight. The new criteria is that I will follow you on Twitter if I would help you move. If I’m willing to carry a box full of photo albums, kitchen gadgets, and spare blankets, I’m probably also going to be interested in hearing about how it’s annoying to file receipts, in seeing photos of your coffee, and in knowing how it smells like wet dog on your subway ride to work.
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