Just when I thought I could retire, I find that I may have to expand my hunting grounds.

I should just go and apply Betteridge's Law to this headline and article from Darrell Etherington — Does the Siri outage reveal its success?

Then AT&T must have been one of the most successful mobile phone carrier in history between 2007 and 2011.

At this point, I should just let Joe Wilcox take over, as I found the piece from him and he does a fine rebuttal. He also notes Siri's Achilles' heel of requiring a data connection for even local tasks, like finding appointments in your calendar. (The iPhone is not yet powerful enough to understand your speech well enough to figure out what you want to do.)