Given the amount of money they’re looking for, guessing it’s for the unreleased products in the pipeline and their patents. Anyone who buys them is not purchasing their v1 product.
I listen to Better Offline and I’m as jaded and cynical as the rest of us, but even I find some of his episodes too much to take.
Like he has no impartiality at all, particularly his takes on LLMs. Our small company of software developers and engineers have saved so much time with Visual Studio CoPilot. The fact is there are uses where they’re extremely useful; just maybe not as the MSM portrays it.
He does get a bit ranty. I still appreciate his take though. Some of the LLMs are super helpful for me for some tasks, but the hype cycle for AI is really a lot to take and it does warrant some actual pushback against it. I can tell I’m becoming more of an old man, but it’s nice to have someone else confirm how bad the Internet is becoming. It’s almost like a hazy dream for me of back in the early days when it was just people sharing weird stuff with each other and not the active battle to fend off ads and scummy sites to find things.
This is an assumption but he’s just preaching to the choir at this point. I don’t see him having a mainstream audience and the only people that listen are people that already know how fucked everything is.
Also, so many ads. Like sure he’s got to make a living but he’s doing it in the very system he opposes.
I could see Apple buying it. The form factor makes sense, it’s the fact that it relies on AI and has its own cell connection are the main issues. If I could tap it and have Siri take dictation or take a picture of something to get more information it would be pretty neat.
Does it though? Having it pull down your shirt, having to rely on projecting a GUI on your hand, and being unable to hear it in loud environments all seem like pretty strong limitations of the form factor
I’d drop the projector interface, as cool as it is, since you have a phone for that. Maybe make it a pendant as well as a pin.
Apple’s got a lot of experience with using tiny speakers in loud places, so I bet they could figure out something maybe using directional microphones. Plus, again, you’ve got the phone so you can use the headphones.
Airpods don’t have a camera though. 90% of my photos are of things I need to remember, like a shopping list or a specific product I need to get Having to dig out (or find) my phone to do that is a pain.
And I don’t have Airpods because I’d lose them, one by one, and the replacements are twice the price as another pair of perfectly workable Bluetooth headphones.
My kids have a crappy watch ($30-40) that has a camera. It’s not a technical problem, it’s just a stupid idea, it’s not an ergonomic place to use a camera.
The time before I lose a pair of glasses is inversely proportional to how much I pay for them. If I spent $400 on glasses they would likely disappear off my face before I left the store
Why on earth would apple buy this shitty android device? And feature wise, they can just make the airpods into an AI device paired with your phone or watch.
This solves only the most recent of privacy concerns that were only discovered with it recently. The primary concern is the core ‘feature’ itself: Windows recording everything you do and look at.
People work with your personal data on a regular basis, you better hope not a single one of them have this ‘feature’ enabled.
If you don't turn it on it doesn't record anything.
People work with your personal data on a regular basis, you better hope not a single one of them have this 'feature' enabled.
Those sorts of businesses have policies on their computers, should be possible to disable it company-wide. If they're not doing that then they have bigger problems than just Recall.
It’s not companies that are the problem. It’s your friends, the type that always clicks on accept all and allow. Do you have any idea how many spam calls I get because someone allowed some proprietary app access to their contacts? And I have at least five friends who would enable recall without giving it a second thought.
The person I was responding to didn't say "I think they'll eventually make it opt-out again, at some point in the future, in my opinion." He gave a factual description of the current state of the feature. An incorrect one.
If you want to hate on face-eating leopards at least be accurate when describing them. Otherwise you become the boy that cried face-eating leopard.
They ate so many faces as of today, what are you talking about? Microsoft has a long history of doing this, I can’t believe you can in any way defend them.
That is how they spin it now, but I saw the setup process for windows 11 on copilot+ laptops and it was opt-out originally. I’d imagine it’s going to be one of those things where they ask you to enable it every couple of days.
Exactly. Making Edge my default browser is opt-in too, but that doesn’t stop them from bugging me about it regularly or switching it any time they think they can.
I’m loving Linux Mint since I switched. It’s nice to have an operating system that isn’t trying to subvert my choices every day.
Making it opt-in is a much better way to offer this ridiculous “feature”. But I wager there will be future shenanigans. MS is very sneaky and passive-aggressive about pushing sketchy unwanted shit on its customers.
Even if the controls were big and obvious, I wouldn’t trust them. Microsoft’s knowingly using dark patterns. It’ll eventually justify using it to spy on those who didn’t quite consent.
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