In the old days, kids TV commercials would tell the kids to hold up the phone to the TV, and then play DTMF tones to dial a 1-900 number. For example: <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-21/news/mn-860_1_horror-stories" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-21/news/mn-860_1_horror-...</a><p>Today, they can probably do the same via "Siri" or "OK Google" ... ?
I don't understand why anyone would leave "Hey Siri" turned on. I do use Siri occasionally, but no result of any Siri query is of any value to me while my phone is in my pocket. If I'm going to take it out of my pocket anyway, there's no additional friction in pressing the home button.
Do people find Sri and Google Now actually useful? I hardly ever find a use case for it, even when I am driving. I just think people should disable Sri and Google Now by default, and only activate after pressing a button.
Whoa, I just took security with David Wagner last semester and Nicolas/Pratyush were some of my TAs. Academia, where cool stuff is always happening under your nose!