But a picture is worth a thousand words. Even just text with effective formatting and layout is a lot more efficient than speech for a huge variety is tasks.
I don’t need or want everyone sat in the same room as me to know every little thing I do on my phone. Leaving aside things that are actually private, that’s just a level of inane garbage that we all don’t need to know about each other.
Sometimes I just want to glance at the football scores without announcing to everyone: “OK Google, what is the current score for the football match between Swindon Town and Harrogate?”.
My favorite is when a UI element is in a random position somewhere in the middle of the screen.
“And to get to the releases, there’s like… a heading in, like, the middle of the screen, but slightly to the right—ah, it’s below that, alri—no, don’t click on that… you need to go back—you have to click on the heading …there we are.”
Like, fuck me, just display X- and Y-axes, and I’ll tell them pixel coordinates.
Voice commands suck.
Even if you get perfect recognition and perfect parsing, speech is slow.
I type at like 120+wpm and I am still 100% certain I could speak faster than I type.
That said, I still hate voice recognition.
But a picture is worth a thousand words. Even just text with effective formatting and layout is a lot more efficient than speech for a huge variety is tasks.
It’s also loud.
I don’t need or want everyone sat in the same room as me to know every little thing I do on my phone. Leaving aside things that are actually private, that’s just a level of inane garbage that we all don’t need to know about each other.
Sometimes I just want to glance at the football scores without announcing to everyone: “OK Google, what is the current score for the football match between Swindon Town and Harrogate?”.
Yeah, I only meant in private. It’s not even really suitable for that. Except telling Siri to turn my lights off from bed.
In public fuck that shit hard.
I don’t want to be ear-rape by people yelling at their phone (or whatever device).
Inconsiderate asshats already use speakerphone in public.
Ffs. Gonna start playing loud fart sounds from my phone next time someone does this.
And the conversations are always trivial, juvenile bullshit.
It’s so frustrating. Just try to give somebody else instructions while you can’t even point at the screen.
“Now go back. Nooo, not back to the opening screen. Back to the previous item we were looking at.”
My favorite is when a UI element is in a random position somewhere in the middle of the screen.
“And to get to the releases, there’s like… a heading in, like, the middle of the screen, but slightly to the right—ah, it’s below that, alri—no, don’t click on that… you need to go back—you have to click on the heading …there we are.”
Like, fuck me, just display X- and Y-axes, and I’ll tell them pixel coordinates.