Alex1N

I recently put a friend’s Hisense ‘smart’ tv onto her network at her request. While setting it up I read through the large number of fine-print descriptions of their opt-in stalking settings. I was horrified and left them severely alone - and advised her not to sign up herself. At least it was all opt-in and very clearly presented up front, not a hidden opt-out setup per the alternatives in the article, but even so it was a real eye-opener. We’ll be hanging on even longer to our ‘dumb’ Panasonic TV after all this - but I will go checking to see what hidden traps there might be, just in case. Great article and comments.

My 16 Pro Max has become appreciably more responsive since I nuked ‘AI’ on it, especially with regards to Siri. What do I miss? Nothing. I certainly don’t miss oppositely-wrong summaries (which occurred even after Apple paused some in other areas like news summaries). As a side note I’m slightly fed up with the delay in activating RCS here in Australia.

Turning ‘AI’ off has made using my phone less cluttered and much smoother. Like others here I’ll only be installing the update for the security stuff. I’m not holding my breath on CarPlay improvements in my three-year old KIA, though.

‘Apple “Intelligence”’ isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Garbage functionality, garbage interface. A very good reason to not buy an Apple product (except for new the iPad 11), or at least an extremely good reason TO TURN THE HEAP OF RUBBISH OFF. Which I have just done on the phone, where it is most intrusive. Life really is to short to muck around with that.

swat671 said:

My firmware version is listed as 0.0.2.58. 

Same here

I think that we need a ‘laugh’ button instead of the new ‘dislike’ button. I’m serious.