That's incredibly cool, but I think Gruber's point about the problems of third party integration will prove to be crucial.

Me: "Set my facebook status to getting ready to ride the roller coaster at Six Flags."

Siri: ...

Me: "Are there any headlines about my startup on the front page of Hacker News?"

Siri: ...

Me: "What Kindle books do I have on HTML 5?"

Siri: ...

Me: "Play me the latest episode of Glee on Netflix."

Siri: ...

Some of these, like Facebook, could be handled by smart first-party integration by Apple. But in general, any time a new use case comes along, first party integration is going to lag way behind, if it's implemented at all.

I don't mean to rag on Siri -- it's an incredibly cool technology even today, and it apparently works amazingly well. But the more things you can do by picking up the phone and using the touch interfsce that you simply can't do at all with the voice interface, the less I think it will slot right into people's lives and become how they interface with their phone.

Totally agree here, if this sort of thing gets worked out, I would feel like the future is here. I kind of see a naive way to make an api around that, but the trick to me would make it generic and adaptable enough to allow such a broad range of functionality, as well as conflict handling in a graceful manner. I am totally intrigued...

"Your wish is my command, but you are a little bit confused about tomorrow schedule."

You seem to be having trouble setting priorities. Shall I:

a. Purchase "The 7 habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey?

b. Purchase "Getting Things Done" by David Allen?

I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but this is one of the first uses of Siri that makes me a bit worried about it in the future.

That's not really Apple's style though.

I can't wait to try stuff like this: “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.”

Does its understanding of location extend to more than just home is the address I entered for myself? Exploring its capabilities will be really interesting.

Siri's understanding of context is what makes it so useful. Pair it with Watson and it'd be unstoppable. (Wait, no! We've seen how that movie ends.)

It works based on geofencing, which allows you to specify and label regions.

And that just means keeping your GPS turned on the whole day. Sure, I always dreamed about losing all my battery charge to such an insanely great feature.

You may want to wait and see how this feature really works.

Can we hack it to end every sentence with ", Master" ?