Perhaps in order to compete, Apple will need to get more nimble. For example, in iOS3, I could use voice recognition on my 3GS to play songs, skip forward, call people, etc (similar to Google's voice control) - it did not need an internet connection.

As of iOS5, you couldn't get this if you enabled Siri. So in order to do mundane stuff, you still had to enable a round-trip to an Apple server.

They should revert this so strictly local, mundane commands don't require an wireless latency.