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One trend I dislike, is the forced use of voice recognition in these cases. A machine as powerful as Watson should not be limited to my mobile device, it shoul

One trend I dislike, is the forced use of voice recognition in these cases. A machine as powerful as Watson should not be limited to my mobile device, it should be available via all my computing platforms and should be able to interpret text form. Siri, for example, can get me David Beckhams age very fast ... It would be nice on my laptop to get access to that type of speed, hit cmd+space "how old is david beckham" and get a result. I understand google can do alot of this, but why limit this technology to voice input only and mobile devices only

davmre 14y ago
This is actually exactly Google's strategy. The Siri-competitive voice search in Jelly Bean is really just an interface to Google search, which has been extended to answer a lot of the same basic questions that Siri can handle (for example, it manages "how old is david beckham" just fine). This means you should be able to get the exact same results by just typing the query into your laptop's Google search box.