I mean if that's not a pain point you encounter regularly because you have a wife or staff that takes care of it, good for you, but there's huge swaths of people for whom they don't have someone else to take care of that so it's a huge pain point that solving for hits. The problem is that there's not a lot of money in it because of the plethora of already existing content aka podcasts that are being give away for free so charging money for something that takes more effort is gonna be an uphill battle.
I am literally saying that cooking and driving is a pain point people encounter and solve through voice assistants, and that only a limited set of specific functions of the computing devices are needed during those times.
Voice activated features that are used in scenarios where your hands are available aren't very useful, especially if accuracy or level of control is poor.
So what I was saying specifically is that when people are cooking, they want to do things like set timers. When people are driving, they want to do things like get directions and play music/podcasts. But they don't really want to do all that much more than those things when they are already preoccupied with something else.
Other more complex functions that use AI aren't functions that people demand because they already have the option of interacting with their device in the first place. For example, users of the Apple notification summary AI feature don't seem particularly impressed because if your eyes are already on your device you can just read the notifications instead of a bad summary of the notifications.
IMO when tech companies design new features like this they operate in something of a bubble where they just assume that people will welcome more technology entering into very non-technical parts of their life. Solutions to problems that don't exist, more technology in places where it's not wanted, etc.
I mean if that's not a pain point you encounter regularly because you have a wife or staff that takes care of it, good for you, but there's huge swaths of people for whom they don't have someone else to take care of that so it's a huge pain point that solving for hits. The problem is that there's not a lot of money in it because of the plethora of already existing content aka podcasts that are being give away for free so charging money for something that takes more effort is gonna be an uphill battle.