That was not my only use case though. I cook a lot, timing is important. I have fun playing games with my kids teaching them trivia, Google Home does that whi

That was not my only use case though. I cook a lot, timing is important. I have fun playing games with my kids teaching them trivia, Google Home does that while we are free to do other things. We listen to a lot of different music. Google at home allow me to stream from Spotify simply by saying the type i want. My wife likes to listen to radio, she just tell Google at home to start a radio station. Listening to the news, google does a pretty good job assembling what is most important during the day. You can ask it to play the latest "Startups for the rest of us" podcast simply by asking it to play that. You can ask it when you next flight is. How long it's going to take to get to somewhere. You can add things to a shopping list which is important when you are family. And these are just things that it does out of the box. I don't care about switching on lights which it also can do and turn the heat up or down. What I think most of you realize is that just like the touchscreen removed a layer of abstraction to access technology because it allow for things humans do naturally. So does the voice. It's extremely intuitive as there is nothing to learn. As voice gets better and better it's going to change a lot of things. The sales numbers of Alexa is pretty telling too and this is from all sorts of people like my parents in law who now have one they use and understand. I don't care whether it's going to be the next big thing, but to claim as the parent did that voice is a bad interface is simply as wrong as it can be and to claim there is no value in what it can besides a few things, well it turns out at least for my family those few things are pretty useful.