I think that’s to push you to use voice search when you’re in the car.
Or a small purse.
When we first switched to JD Edwards, it still sent the passwords in plain text, and our Oracle partner set up our weblogic instances over http instead of https.
I had to prove I could steal passwords as just a local admin on a workstation before they made encrypting the traffic a priority.
It’s similar in IT. Almost no one recommends regular password changes anymore, but we won’t pass our audit if we don’t require password changes every 90 days.
Ah yes, Compaq, the company that used non standard power supplies but with the standard wire coloring and connectors. I had several customers blow up their motherboards after buying standard replacement power supplies.