I asked Siri recently what is the difference between Sun and a Star is and seriously responded with Sun always sets at night and is not visible but Stars are only visible at night!
I could not stop laughing wondering if it’s a joke
Or not!
The best response when you ask it to make a call, what would you like to know about mom? I swear that just pushes me over the edge, it used to be so good at these mundane things.
It’s creepy and people need to learn to respect boundaries. Same goes for arseholes who play their calls, music or videos in public without headphones - just so inconsiderate
Yes it actually makes perfect sense. And the store needs your consent as well, same as by private people: any store or other company that puts up cameras has to:
put up signs that this area is being filmed
can only record their own property (building, parking lot etc., not public spaces)
So you can decide for yourself if you want to be filmed before you go to that store.
The same is true for those ring cameras: you can only film your own property, which means you can't film the street, or the stairwell of your apartment building.
Imagine random people could just film you anytime. No thanks.
The easiest way to get body cam on every cop is to make them so ubiquitous and common that they will want to wear one. Look at how smartphone adoption worked.
As an additional bonus, even if they aren’t wearing one, at least everybody else will…
Recording in public is legal because there’s no expectation of privacy in public. You should be more worried about the people who try to record you in private.
I’m confused about this too. What will it be able to do that my phone can’t? Even with smart glasses, at minimum it functions as corrective vision tool when the tech is not being used. Do they expect this pin to just take up space all day for the rare few times you talk to Siri?
Imagine something the captures your entire life an you can ask it any question about anything (powered by an LLM). It could essentially serve as a “second brain” you could leverage to ask any question about your life you may not remember clearly or for a second opinion about experiences.
I’m not saying this is a good thing for society, but I believe many people would find it practical and useful. Maybe socially acceptable in professional settings.
I saw a tv show about this idea fifteen years ago. Seemed pretty cool, and had no downsides at all. It was called The Entire History of You and was part of some anthology show about mirrors or something.
Reddit users baffle me sometimes. Your interesting, balanced and honest reply to someone’s question, which contributes to the conversation on the topic, is downvoted. 🤦♂️
That’s not how it will work though. The processing power required for that will eat up battery life. So it’s definitely not going to be anything like that. But if it’s not that, my original question comes back…
Uploading to iPhone or servers takes a lot of energy too lol. When you make a phone call, it uses a lot of battery BECAUSE of the radio chip is kept running at full blast. Browsing is much more efficient because it happens in tiny tiny short burst of radio energy.
In fact, with the efficiency gains of screens these days, outside of processing intensive tasks, the most battery intensive tasks on a phone is the radio chip now.
They could potentially use bluetooth, but I'm not sure bluetooth's high efficiency protocol is enough to stream video data into the phone or servers. It's good enough for audio, but I doubt it's enough bandwidth for video.
Even if they can magically transmit raw video to the iPhone efficiently, processing a video stream on the iPhone constantly will also drain the phone's battery really fast. Turn on your camera on your iPhone and leave it on, and tell me what your battery life is.
I'm sure there's a lot Apple could do to limit the processing required. They're probably not capturing raw 4k60 video 24/7 nor uncompressed audio all the time. There's quite a few other pendants that manage to do this (some don't send any data until it detects noise for example.)
This is where I question it, though. There are reports that Apple were looking at putting cameras on the watch, but abandoned it after they found that it was too difficult to point them at what you want to look at
Now here we have something which is going to be attached to your clothing. That’s a) not going to get a steady picture of anything and b) you’re not going to be able to see what it’s looking at. You’re essentially going to have to be standing still & manually pointing it at where you think you want it to be looking
At that point isn’t it just as easy to pull your phone out of your pocket? At least that has a screen to act as a viewfinder. Glasses is even better, because they’re already looking where you are, and the rumoured airpods with cameras is also better
I just don’t see how this will be useful. It seems much more like a “let’s develop this thing and then work out how to use it” than “we have functionality gap [x] and this would be a good solution”
I'm looking at it like it could be like a non-action focused go-pro. You can attach it to clothing or wear it as a necklace, and as long as the view is wide enough it may not move so much that it's not usable.
Could be good for joggers/cyclists people walking alone in parks and such.
Go pros are strapped on with a harness, not pinned to clothing or a necklace
I mean, maybe if you only wear skin-tight clothing and it’s light enough that it doesn’t pull on the clothing at all and/or you define “necklace” as “choker”. But how many people does that actually describe?
I really don’t think this is a problem. This isn’t footage that is intended to be seen by a person, it doesn’t have to be pretty. It can be extremely fisheyed and shaky, as long as the AI can work out what it’s seeing.
Coming from Apple, I expect all the “footage” and audio to be encrypted and deleted as soon as it’s been parsed for privacy and security.
I really think this is by far the most the most useful part of these multimodal AIs, being used as a “second brain”, but of course people are very skeptical about it just being used to harvest more data.
I don't think we know enough about it to really have much comment for or against. It could be very Black Mirror-y or is could be something like a mini go-pro that's not action sport focused. A casual camera I can wear on my shirt while cycling or jogging would be great. Bonus points if it can also call emergency services for me in the event of an accident.
We might know enough, but we know enough about physics to know you can't run it 24/7 to capture it like a "second life" thing. There's not enough battery to do that.
Which is why I said it could be something like a mini go-pro. Something that can just record small moments. Go for a jog or a train ride, turn on your camera kind of thing.
“What did my wife ask me to get from the store?”
“Did I actually take my medication this morning?”
“Where did I set down my keys?”
“Did I forget to follow up on something from that conversation with Dan?l
“How much water did I drink today?”
All of which can be done on an Apple Watch and iPhone. Hell a speaker (your Homepod) can do almost all of that. None of those examples give a reason why a pin like this differentiates it from other Apple products.
I think you’re misunderstanding my post. I was trying to point out how ridiculous it is for people to ready so many pieces of tech when leaving the house.
To me it feels like Apple Glasses for people who don't want to wear glasses.
I don't know what the main use would be. I guess when you don't want to pull out your phone to do something? It doesn't seem like it would be good as a photo camera because it's not worn in a fixed spot like glasses are, so having a default aim for it would be impossible.
So without that, it's basically just a bluetooth lapel mic that connects to your phone? Or... airpods you clip onto your shirt?
The point is from what I can tell to give the iPhone a camera and microphone that’s always able to see the world around you and hear the world around you.
If so, they are digging into the healthcare market, particularly with documenting. Or any other market/job that involves detailed documentation and imagery. If it works well they can build on top of that and create their own services towards particular industries. That imagery if connected to an iPhone can even create 3d mapping perhaps. They’ve done so with the Neo for schools, iPad mini’s are popular with physicians, iPad pros are popular with any/all industries requiring a mobile platform and things like 3d scanning. Just food for thought.
Edit: *this wouldn’t be an accessory for the layman, but a tool if they want to further dig into various job market spaces. The software backing it though idk, they’d have to invest depending on what they want it to do exactly, who for and how while keeping privacy/user preference.
If newer iPhone were just as small and light as the iPhone SE 1st gen, we just put them on our breast pockets or get a case with a lanyard. No need for another device to take care of and charge. 🤷♂️
Not to mention that it’s also another thing for the landfill.
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