To #3 - I had a lot of fun with my phone's voice assistant when it first came out, and consequently figured out how to get a lot of use out of it. Then, fairly

To #3 - I had a lot of fun with my phone's voice assistant when it first came out, and consequently figured out how to get a lot of use out of it. Then, fairly recently, I switched my phone's UI over to a new language I'm learning, and it pretty much killed it for me. This time around, I just can't be arsed to learn all the exact phrases I need to know to use anything more than headline features like checking the weather and texting without taking my phone out of my pocket.* I think it's like text adventures. Decades ago, I could deal with all the crappy parser idiosyncrasies. But not anymore. Novelty can earn you a lot of patience. * And even that gets annoying. -- Hey, computer, is it going to rain? -- ~BEEP~ It is not raining where you are at this exact minute. 20 minutes later, it starts raining.