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HomePod, the iPod for your home
AirPods sound great and work superior to other bluetooth earbuds. That's why people buy them.rogifan_new said:
Have you seen how many people have Apple’s white ear buds sticking out of their ears? Sorry but most people don’t care that much about sound quality.
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HomePod, the iPod for your home
The issue wasn't who was first, but who was successful and who fumbled.franklinjackcon said:
As a side note, Home may be an Echo knock off but Assistant, which is essentially a refurbished Now, was around long before Alexa. Now was even on iOS before Alexa was launched. -
If iPhone X demand is less than expected, analyst expects it to be 'end of life' when repl...
So Apple is going to terminate production of an iPhone after it replaces it with a new model?
Holy cow, somebody tell CNBC.
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Apple's iOS platform advantage in fixing bugs is beating Google's Android
Google Assistant (apparently) doesn't listen to audio all the time (unless there's a problem where Home is stuck listening, which Google called an unanticipated error and fixed). However, that's not true of Android as a platform. Apps on Android commonly request all kinds of access to hardware they don't need to function, and use this any way they like. Google doesn't police this. They can listen to the mic, turn on the camera, go through your contacts and upload all this to their own servers. Apple anticipated that developers would trying to do this, and established permissions where the user is asked to approve access to location, mic, camera, etc.gatorguy said:
Other than someone posting silliness I wasn't planning on spending any time posting this thread... but your comment qualifies for a response.SnickersMagoo said:I seriously don't know how anyone actually installs anything from Google in their house.....with Google listening to their every word for marketing..... It bugs me that my Sony TV uses Android...
Google isn't "listening to your every word for marketing" anymore than Siri is. Both are "listening" for a keyword wakeup on your device only. Only after you speak the keyphrase does your iPhone or Android phone begin sending your commands to a Google or an Apple server for processing.
There's just so much FUD being tossed around about our Assistants, Siri, Google and Alexa and it's repeated so often that folks such as yourself believe it to be true.
Now as for your specific Sony TV it may have tried "to enable a tracking service during the TV’s setup. It can be disabled inside the TV’s Help menu, under “Privacy Settings.” Doing so may disable some built-in recommendation features that rely on view tracking."
With smart tv's in general it's not Android or Google or Amazon that should cause any concern. There's zero evidence that they are listening for anything outside of a keyword wake-up if it's so equipped. But there have been cases where the manufacturer (ie Samsung IIRC) sets up the complementary software for "listening", Nilsson the TV survey guys have arrangements with certain companies (was Vizio one?) to install the ability to identify the programming you might be playing, and apps with poorly disclosed functions that listen for background noises, TV/Movie sounds and such have been found in both Google Play and the App Store and from a couple of different companies tho they've been relatively rare. Outside stores are far more likely to have it embedded within some otherwise harmless app. So it's another great reason to stick with official app stores and avoid the 3rd party ones.
It's not Android or iOS that you should be fearful of, it's whether the set manufacturer is trustworthy.
Everyone back as you were enjoying a DED editorial. I've no comment on it and I know many here look forward to them.
On both platforms, users commonly give apps all the permissions they ask for, and can abuse those permissions once granted (as Facebook does). iOS makes this more obvious, and enables users to selectively turn off permissions per app and per service. But the fact remains that Android on its own--whether from Google or a version from anyone else--is set up to spy on users and is effectively hacked on arrival. It's wildly easy to spy on an Android user. It's much harder to install malware, key loggers and other crap on iOS, and to listen to users you have to get purposely installed and approved by the user. It's just too easy on Android, even for people who are making an effort not to be tracked, recorded and surveilled by their apps. There are lots of Android products that ship with malware installed by default, clearly on purpose. This is a big problem, whether or not you want it to be. The problem is definitely larger with sketchy apps and hardware vendors, but Android enables them.
Facebook is terrible on all platforms but it's worse on Android.
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Apple's HomePod isn't about Siri, but rather the future of home audio
macgui said:
Interesting comments. Regarding Steve Jobs and iPod HiFi, recall that in 2006 Apple was building basically commodity Intel PCs (boxy MacBooks and iMacs) running macOS and was assembling third party (hw & sw) components to produce iPods. It had largely gotten rid of what custom VLSI work it had been doing, and was doing little other advanced custom work.I tried to read all the posts; really I did. But they became disinteresting so I skimmed then stopped and maybe missed worthwhile stuff. Maybe not.
I have two Dots. Alexa is ok, but I'm not loving her.
Ten years later, Apple as advanced processors (like the A8 in this speaker) and silicon components (W1); custom crafts everything from advanced unibody enclosures (MacBook Air first came out in 2008) to precision mobile devices (super thin iPads, water resistant iPhone, super thin Apple Watch); designs its own display controllers, disk controllers, audio support chips and even has its own GPU design; develops sound frameworks with advanced support for sophisticated audio and video processing, etc.
Apple of 2006 is really not even possible to compare to today in terms of the unique, proprietary technology it has developed (including Siri, Home Kit, AirPlay). Apple also has a decade of experience in retail, selling other people's audio products and gaining some clear insights into what people buy and what they will pay.
