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Here's how the future will be: Long home button press. <beep> "Siri (or Android version, or WP12 version) , search for <whatever the thing is>" <beep> <Her
by urbanjunkie 14y ago
Here's how the future will be:
Long home button press.
<beep>
"Siri (or Android version, or WP12 version) , search for <whatever the thing is>"
<beep>
<Here are your search results>
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoThen consider me loathing the future in advance. To me, people talking out loud to their phones in public is akin to bluetooth headsets. The technology might provide an easier way to let you do something, but you look like an idiot.
- urbanjunkie 14y agoIf the price I have to pay is that people like you think I'm an idiot, I'm sure I'll manage. I am curious though, how do you distinguish between people "talking out loud to their phones", and people talking out loud to other people using their phones (ie making a phone call).
- dllthomas 14y agoThere are a lot of situations where people talking on the phone to other people is annoying and rude. I expect there's substantial overlap with the situations where people talking out loud to Siri is annoying and rude.
- urbanjunkie 14y agoAnd for the most part those situations are not ones where the presence of QR codes would be of significant benefit. Note that I think QR codes are great for things like airline tickets or baggage tracking tags.
- Lockyy 14y agoHow is using a qr code to get a direct link to what you need even comparable to doing a search on that object and hoping you get relevant information?
- nooneelse 14y agoBut if I'm scanning a QR code in a store next to some product or on a poster about an event, I don't want to know what Siri knows about it, or to read some non-specific page online about it. I want to know what the store or poster wants me to know.