The social issue thing is real and it's an interesting quandary.
I think my personal beef with them is when I interact with someone wearing an earpiece, it makes me think (rightly or wrongly) that they are happy to interact with me BUT at any moment a ping from their earpiece will be by default more important.
Maybe it's (perhaps in part) my own issue though.
On the other hand I can see the value in it, especially if Siri's abilities improve, and if speech recognition improves also.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned and in time this will built into our social fabric (I think back to the late 1980s and early 1990s when walking around with a handheld cell phone seemed incredibly dickish)
I think my personal beef with them is when I interact with someone wearing an earpiece, it makes me think (rightly or wrongly) that they are happy to interact with me BUT at any moment a ping from their earpiece will be by default more important.
Maybe it's (perhaps in part) my own issue though.
On the other hand I can see the value in it, especially if Siri's abilities improve, and if speech recognition improves also.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned and in time this will built into our social fabric (I think back to the late 1980s and early 1990s when walking around with a handheld cell phone seemed incredibly dickish)