Voice recognition in 2015 is where touchscreens were 15 years ago. It sort-of works, the way Palms sort-of worked, but Palms never really took off the same way

Voice recognition in 2015 is where touchscreens were 15 years ago. It sort-of works, the way Palms sort-of worked, but Palms never really took off the same way Siri hasn't really taken off. Current smartphones are just iterative improvements based on affordable touchscreens crossing the "suck" to "don't suck" threshold. The voice-as-UI will come (and such a device looks like a particularly nice match for a smartwatch), but it's not a problem of the design not being tried -- it's that it's still some serious hardware/software R&D breakthrough away from being viable.