It’s been a busy week of announcements in tech land what with Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and yesterday’s tease of an announcement by OpenAI and it’s acquisition of Jonny Ive’s company “io”.
Industry pundits are all a Twitter speculating about what kind of device Ive and his team might make to deliver an amazing AI experience to users. Ive seems to regret how “his” iPhone has created such an addiction to screens and seems to want to repent by bringing us something new and “better”. For more, see this tweet: https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1925543472993321066?s=46
I have one simple request: don’t make voice the primary interface to some new magical device.
I’ve had an iPhone with some serious voice input capabilities for years and the reality is that I rarely use voice. Perhaps if my life was just “bowling alone” I’d find it natural to just talk out loud to a piece of technology. But I’m mostly around other people all day and out of respect for them I simply prefer being silent.
Until some new magical device can capture my thoughts without either voice or keyboard input, I will remain a skeptic. Skeptics like me will reduce the market size opportunity for any such new device. Just sayin’…
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