[IanMikutel]

I wrote a post last night (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3069745) analyzing Tom Gruber, Siri's Co-Founder, CTO, and VP of Design, original Siri keynote in 2008.

The post got pretty popular on HN and I had 5 key questions/predictions, feel free to read all the details (and lots of quotes I transcribed straight from Gruber's video) but now I'll summarize my thoughts quickly below:

1. Very few languages for Siri (where's Spanish?)

2. No API announced for developers to add tasks to Siri

3. It's still named...Siri? What happened to Assistant? I guess it is quicker to say in practice...

4. Siri's in BETA? Is this the first time Apple's released a major iPhone feature with a beta sticker?

5. No payments integration with Siri mentioned. Can it buy stuff for me? as Gruber talked about in 2008?

6. No Facebook partnership for social knowledge on Siri, or even iPad app.

[mercurio]

I don't think Siri is in beta. I think only the 'voice dictation for arbitrary text input' feature is in beta.

[revorad]

So I guess you're not that fascinated any more, Ian? Maybe now you understand my cynical reactions to your original post :-P