Voice recognition in 2015 is where touchscreens were 15 years ago. It sort-of works, the way Palms sort-of worked, but Palms never really took off the same way Siri hasn&#x27;t really taken off.<p>Current smartphones are just iterative improvements based on affordable touchscreens crossing the &quot;suck&quot; to &quot;don&#x27;t suck&quot; threshold.<p>The voice-as-UI will come (and such a device looks like a particularly nice match for a smartwatch), but it&#x27;s not a problem of the design not being tried -- it&#x27;s that it&#x27;s still some serious hardware&#x2F;software R&amp;D breakthrough away from being viable.