The problem is that Siri has the drawbacks of the CLI, without many of its features. Don't get me wrong: as I said previously, Siri gets me excited like no other iPhone feature does.
But the reality is that, like CLIs, Siri has an unforgivably precise syntax, but unlike CLIs it lacks contextual help (tab completion), easy ways to string commands together and encapsulate them as one (pipes and scripts), job control, etc.
Right now, Siri is a poor voice based CLI, yes. But I think in the future -when natural language processing improves- these types of applications will be less and less of a CLI, becoming their own UI paradigm.
But the reality is that, like CLIs, Siri has an unforgivably precise syntax, but unlike CLIs it lacks contextual help (tab completion), easy ways to string commands together and encapsulate them as one (pipes and scripts), job control, etc.
Right now, Siri is a poor voice based CLI, yes. But I think in the future -when natural language processing improves- these types of applications will be less and less of a CLI, becoming their own UI paradigm.