Alexa is for fun, Siri is because typing is hard: survey

Consumers are still mixed about Siri, but according to an exclusive new poll for USA TODAY, they like her more than other personal assistants. LOS ANGELES -- Face it, talking is more fun than typing, right? That's what we always suspected, and a new exclusive survey for USA TODAY confirms that's how people feel about using their personal digital assistants. In the poll, taken by SurveyMonkey Audience, 39.2% of consumers said they used voice commands with Apple's Siri because "it's easier/faster than typing," and even more opted for that with the Google Assistant, some 50.3%. For Amazon's Alexa, on the Echo speaker, 41.8% simply said "fun" was their top reason for using her.