iJunk, Siriously 2
MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman recently upgraded his iJunk. He is not impressed with Siri:
In other words, I bought the Apple-generated hype. I was a sucker.
You see, I have been disillusioned by Siri. It strikes me as some kind of gimmick for self-indulgent people with a tremendous amount of time on their hands.
For a thrilling demonstration of Siri’s skill, listen to the first five minutes of this.
Full disclosure:
I don’t have any iJunk; I refuse the pay twice as much for just as good, while living in a censored, walled orchard. My phone, though, does have a voice feature which I have played with, but hardly use. Mostly it just gets in the way when I have an attack of wrong damn button.
May 26, 2012 at 3:49 pm
A chump who shouldn’t have a column on anything un-chumps himself briefly re one aspect of the cult of iJunk. I take iJunk as an IQ test. If you have some, you flunked.
May 26, 2012 at 4:15 pm
It is likely that many of the columnists at MarketWatch shouldn’t have columns, at least not to write about markets. But even a blind pig finds an acorn from time to time.