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While this article certainly has a reasonable core point -- that the 'oddness' of using Siri in public is unsettling, and could dent the pickup of voice control through embarrassment -- it's hard not to argue the opposite too: that had Siri launched on the Mac first, it would have languished in obscurity. If it had launched on Mac first, I'm sure the author would have been arguing it should have launched on iPhone instead.