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ericthehalfbee said:

That is a brilliant ad, and a great play on the Vegas slogan. No doubt this is going to piss off a lot of people.

franklinjackcon said:

DanielEran said:

franklinjackcon said:

I'm not sure I agree with the assumptions that this article is based on. Could Apple have developed something like Voice Match to differentiate between less personal accounts, e.g. News or Apple Music without opening up access to contacts or calling? If the issue was privacy not technology then why wouldn't they at least start with those? This looks very much like retrofitting a privacy excuse that was never the main reason for HomePod's limitations.

The article doesn't say that every  HomePod limitation is an intentional privacy-based decision. 

However, Apple is also not racing to rapidly throw out ideas in the voice category because:

a) it's not an amazon/google with surveillance/ad/marketing motivations
b) it's not behind in making money in mobile
c) Apple's huge business requires it to think about things before it deploys them to hundreds of millions of users
d) as Lkrupp noted above, Apple is scrutinized in the media the way other smaller companies are not (Google, Facebook, Amazon)

b) it's trying to sell devices that people love so I don't see how your point about how Amazon/Google make money is relevant
b) not sure how this is relevant to smart speakers. Google makes money from advertising, Amazon from retail
c) same goes for Google/Amazon, who both have hundreds of millions/billions of users
d) from your point of view but I've not seen anything to validate it