I look forward to having this tech on *all* my devices.
I don’t think Siri makes a lot of sense on “all” devices. It makes far more sense to have Siri on your iPhone and open up APIs to interact with other devices. By keeping Siri on your personal device there’s an implicit intimacy and trust built up between agent and user which is critical. iPads, computers, ATM machines, credit card readers even iPod touches, very few of our digital devices are so uniquely and definitively ours as the mobile phone.
Extrapolate out one level of personalization and think of Apple TV. If Siri were incorporated to ATV it now needs to have user profiles since members of my family might all have a playlist called Favorites.
Move another level out to say shared computing at a school or office where multiple people may access the same terminal. I don’t want the kind of information Siri needs to be so useful sitting on a terminal like that.
Expand again to a publicly accessible terminal to something like an ATM, flight check-in or a drive-thru. I have far more trust in Siri accurately making a transaction while maintaining my privacy and security over payment details than I do McDonalds or my bank.
The personal nature of Siri is perhaps as important as the actual “AI” and is something services like Zypr and Yap will have a hard time replicating.
