A cellphone is pretty much the absolute nadir of "closed unit" devices (in the sense the prior poster was describing) that could be possibly imagined.
How else would you use the word "nadir"
"Lowest point" basically.
I.e. "Political threads are the nadir of discussion on HN"
The timer that is part of iOS is not as good as Alexa's. With Alexa you can easily set concurrent timers and label them. Siri doesn't know how to do that.
I don't want to touch the phone with raw meat juice; voice commands plus learning to cook has the potential for amazingness.
I'm going to presume that you have Siri enabled... no touching required, right? Just knuckle the thing. Curl the pinky finger and tap w/ the knuckle. 0_o
I don't have Siri, and I generally don't have my phone near me all the time. Same for the wife, it's super awesome to just be able to talk to Alexa. I share the privacy concerns, so I am hopeful https://mycroft.ai being a suitable replacement as I have ordered and plan to build a better rig to handle the deepspeech.