content: Yea, its one of those things where I am both bothered by my private information being sifted through all the time and accepting that is largely is the way of the world and nothing I can really do about it if I want to continue to use most computers, technology, in general live and function anywhere but off the grid completely.  Yes, its more nuanced than that, yes I could probably spend a larger amount of time and effort to reduce the degree to which my "private" data ends up in others hands, but without being able to really stop it completely it seems rather futile and a waste of effort.  That said, I am excited for the prospect of a true virtual assistant. I have a 10,000mAh battery in my phone so there should be no difficulty with keeping an assistant on 24/7 always listening which is the threshold I think is necessary for it becoming an actually useful tech.  If I have to pick up my phone from the desk, unlock it, pick an app, turn on the microphone, and then issue my command its essentially worthless.  If it can recognize my voice and use that as the "unlock" and is always listening so I can shout across the room "Erasmus! Add a meeting with Joe to my schedule for tomorrow afternoon at 3" and it does it. Then its getting useful.