As a first time iPhone user, it's been interesting, and I didn't actually get to Siri until a few days in.

Honestly, calling pretty much anyone in my phone book is a huge time-saver, and I have found the text dictation to be helpful in the car when I'm, say, running late to a gig or something, a huge boon.

I've also used the location feature a few times to find places to eat.

I think the big jump for Siri-type applications for the future is going to be making it self-contained (ie work without a data connection), or work from some hub in your house (if we are talking Star Trek like).

I think the thing is, so many of us are so fluent with the keyboard interface of computers, it's really a wash on timing between a voice search and a keyboard search at this point. I think the voice search has advantages in certain situations where you'd have to parse a lot of text to find what you were looking for. Overall, I think it's a great feature, and definitely works, as opposed to all the other voice command stuff I have ever tried, all of which sucked (except dragon dictation, that was good).

You know, not to incite, but not everyone in their 20s and 30s has that ultramodern mcmansion taste. it looks comfortable. is that house an odd choice for an internet billionaire? sure, but he can certainly get away from work there, as a refuge. and sure, it's a bit of a misnomer saying the *house* cost 7 mil. it didn't, the land cost a lot more. not my taste personally, but it's very nice. i would also bet he hasn't done finishing work on the backyard, yet, that's ripe for some hard-scape.

If you want to mess with them more, order a pizza when YOU pick up. "Hi, I'd like to order a large pepperoni pizza, and... do you have wings? Oh, and a 2 liter of pepsi." Gets 'em every time.