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Nobody sees how dystopian it is to have a home—your most personal, private space—filled with microphones, cameras, watches, & earphones that detect & catalog your every move (and health, fitness, vulnerabilities, home entry points, etc.) via voice, facial, & apparently body detection? Thinking there is no back door or hackable entry point for the FBI, Kremlin, China, or nefarious non-governmental group?

Corporate databases & systems are hacked literally every day, but our home networks are immune? China has hooks into our commercial telephony networks but not our home networks? You believe this?

All this so we can figure out if there’s enough hot water to take a shower?

Are you all crazy? Or just blinded by tech naïveté?

A debacle?

Only to tech bloggers.

Most people just didn’t care. A minor annoyance at most.

wood1208 said:

To me it's iPhone 8S.

Except it’s cheaper than the iPhone 8 was, has more memory, and uses a CPU three generations newer. 

UncleChi11 said:

I tried updating the Supplemental 10.13.2 on both of my iMacs (one machine for me, the other for the kids, both 2017's). It worked just fine on one of them, but on the other it said it could not install the update. When I went back into the Mac App Store to try to reinstall it the Supplemental was no longer available as an update. Strange.

The iOS updates worked fine for me. But on my older Mac, the macOS update took a while to install, and now I don’t seem to have wifi/connectivity.

EDIT:
It seems to be Safari-based web views. Safari doesn’t work, iTunes Store doesn’t work, App Store doesn’t work. Firefox works fine.

Sorry to disappoint those that suspect a conspiracy to inflate Apple's profits, but the same research will tell you that Apple has change the boot process for security purposes.

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The only wrinkle is because of the security architecture of Apple Silicon Macs -- they won't boot at all if the internal SSD fails. 

Wrinkle? I think it’s proving the point you set out to refute.

Unfortunately, Mike, you're trying to make Apple the savior here, but Apple's push for subscription services destroys your theory. Apple encourages every and any app — from online games to simple on-device calculators — to be a subscription service.

And what happens to a subscription service when the company goes belly up? It goes away. There's no company to receive the revenue or pay Apple to keep the app in the Store, so the app stops working. Doesn't matter if it's connected to servers or not. Doesn't matter if it's AI with a local LLM or not. It will simply stop working. There's no company to accept the liability in our litigious, unfettered-capitalism business environment if the app/product ends up hurting children for some unplanned-for reason, so the app will be shut down. It would be nice if it were required to be open-sourced, but that's not the way capitalism works today.

There are potential advantages to having an AI database stored locally, but this isn't one of them.