What makes this worth saying is the context provided by the media's initial flood of breathless assurances that this would change everything. In the intervening

What makes this worth saying is the context provided by the media's initial flood of breathless assurances that this would change everything. In the intervening months, without much attempt to revise the initial estimates, they have pretty much just stopped talking about Siri; the last I heard about it was that Apple disabled prostitute-finding. In that specific context it's good to have a story saying, actually this is turning out not to be such a big deal. When the two comments in this thread say "well yeah, Siri's probably over-hyped and its usefulness is actually quite limited" they aren't disagreeing with the article nearly so strongly as they are disagreeing with the majority of what the tech press was saying when Siri first arrived.