Dude, Apple products have had voice control since before Google itself was founded and ages before Android was even a stolen idea on Eric Schimdt's Apple Board Room minutes copy.

Actually, combining Siri with Nuance and then integrating it into the phone in a very polished and high-quality way has made the phone very much more usable to me. Examples include being able to set up appointments, reminders, alarms, send out texts/emails etc. without having to stop walking/driving to my next appointment. As a mobile professional that is very busy, not having to stop for simple items makes my phone hugely more productive for me.

As they further integrate and – more importantly – extend Siri to the iPad and the Mac and to third party developers, I think that my computing life will be changed forever.

As a side note, and not particularly at you, I never hear the Google fans deriding Goggle products that are in beta for literally years. But a first iteration of an Apple product with a beta tag gets hugely slammed. Seems a bit biased to me.

I wish I had mod points for you!

You don't seem to know your history very well. Apple has been doing voice synth and voice control, since at least the early '90's. And, yes, they probably got the idea from Star Trek - so it wasn't their idea. However, typical of Apple to make a concept actually usable. At least typical of Apple with the second coming of Jobs. The Jobs of the first coming and of NeXT, had vision, but didn't know how to only release stuff that was ready for prime time – something that he learned and applied when he returned to run Apple.

First mover and more polish. Apple cares about how smoothly things work together. It is not perfect in doing this, but it is far better than most of the competition.

...unfortunately, what they show is only a tablet TV. There is not interactivity. They only watch an interview.

You are sort of right. We do believe in Jesus as the Christ and our everlasting life. You should look up the definition of the words you use before you use them. The term you used is not what some circles would fall those that have Faith (unless they are ignorant of definitions as you seem to be). There are many other derogatory terms that might be used, but not "gullible", in that context.

Interesting you seem to think that we believers are not open to new information. You are wrong. We are, just not about Jesus - seems that you are the same, but from the opposite direction. Perhaps you will open your mind to the possibility of immortality through the Christ. Perhaps you will overcome the hubris that the search for physical knowledge can lead to in those that do the search without Jesus. Perhaps.

Actually, there is evidence. Not everyone agrees with it, but then not everyone agrees with evidence that there is or is not human generated global climate change.

There is nothing in studying the universe that God provided us with (i.e. science). Nor is faith in God an end to knowledge. As far as science goes, how much of it do you take on faith? As an example, unless you can provide me with some witnesses to the Big Bang, you have to take it on faith that the scientists' theories are correct. There is nothing wrong with faith and all things begin with it (and in my case, end with it).

Excellent comment.

If I had mod points, you'd get them.

Excuse me. Exactly how do we "know" anything about a Big Bang? Can you produce the witnesses? Yes, we have some evidence and some theories that seem to make sense, but we are always adjusting what we *thought* we knew based on new evidence all the time. And, for me, that one statement in your other seemingly lucid argument, completely ruined your comment.

No kidding! While LaTeX is fine, I greatly miss FrameMaker for its document processing capabilities. So sad that no one has really replaced it after Adobe bought FrameMaker and killed it – hoping to replace it with InDesign.

You are so right. We need to get beyond the desktop metaphor. Yet, this very /. group collectively gnash their teeth when Apple tries to move beyond the file system, for the typical user. All you can hear (um...see) is posts complying that Apple is rooming easy default access to the file system. It is so funny that these are the same people that say they want progress.

Amazing to read this story and comments like this one from @WrongSizeGlass. This is the same forum where Apple has been criticized for having the appearance of a one-button mouse for so long...right?

Seriously, many, many people really don't have a clue how to run their computers they way the crew on this forum do. Keeping things very simple (yes, the appearance of a one-button mouse) is not a bad idea. Address the lowest common denominator while providing those that can do better with the tools they want/need.

On a bit of a different note, I've moved from using the file structure to using the search functionality of my computer (a long time ago really). This story about CTRL-F I've implemented into my workflow on my whole computer and I've never looked back. It has made a huge difference in my time and productivity. I've basically one large Documents folder where I dump everything. Same thing for my e-mail. If I'm going to keep an e-mail around, it gets dumped into the single Read folder after I've dealt with it, in the In Box.