bobolicious

riverko said:

Maybe i see it from a very simple and uninformed point of view. But couldn’t Apple give users a choice? Choose on device Siri for more privacy but with less features or cloud based Siri that can handle more things?

...agreed, unlike the macOS voice dictation that was quietly changed from onboard to Apple server for US ...
machow2.com/dictate-offline-catalina

... at last check was Apple the one bypassing user VPN and privacy settings to scrape data within what has been called a secure or 'walled garden'...?

gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gathering-1849855092/slides/9#replies
gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

Wow my first sense is this could be really great...

Could this also allow headless macs (mini) or portables to offer AV projection both indoors and out ?

The Apple TV that never was may finally land...?

... I still keep hoping ATMOS (or spatial translation) decoding will be offered within Apple TV for video so we can choose any (esp audiophile) outputs via wifi ...

To me there are many factors that have made the mac decreasingly attractive, some mentioned above:

- challenged privacy representation / trust (mysk report + class actions)
- increasing online / cloud dependence
- gpu speed concerns
- increasing ads
- inflexible ram / storage
- uncompetitive ram/storage cost
- increased churn (os/hardware) shortening life cycle / orphaning
- increasing churn overhead (every bloody year)
- increasing churn seeming lagging or abandoning bug fixes
- astonishingly poor migration experience still non functional
- debatably poor repairability
- subscription trend vs persistent licensing
- dongle churn
- partial feature support (aka touchbar, intel macos lag)

sell, sell, sell...

... has 'better' for profit replaced profit for 'best' (for the customer)...?

...and on it goes...

Peak Apple...?