AppleExposed

avon b7 said:

It's a logical (and correct) move and better late than never.

At this rate they could end up around three years late to market

wigby said:

AppleExposed said:

Looks very good and fills a niche.

Is there enough violence and sex to shut up the people claiming Apple's content is too mild and that Apple is trying to be Disney?

The violence and sex is simply an excuse for those that are looking to criticize Apple for any reason. They can claim a million different reasons why this show or Apple TV + will fail but the only one that matters is the quality of the storytelling.

BxBorn said:

AppleExposed said:

Surprised!!

Apple please hurry up and take Home seriously! I'm at the point of thinking Apple needs to acquire some home security companies and make these spyware devices irrelevant. Like Siri, iPhone and podcasts, this whole industry was Apple's idea and they're laying back allowing everyone in.

And cry me a river about the Siri thing. All information was anonymous and untraceable. Apple could release these recordings to the public and it would do diddly-squat!
Unlike spyware companies like Facebook and Google who know who your children are, where you live and what you purchase.

Why do you think Apple will be any different outside of the fact that in light of this Apple may more explicitly tell you that humans will periodically review footage to ensure the AI engine is correctly identifying what it it was programmed to identify? The human involvement won't change.

gatorguy said:

AppleExposed said:

Surprised!!

Apple please hurry up and take Home seriously! I'm at the point of thinking Apple needs to acquire some home security companies and make these spyware devices irrelevant. Like Siri, iPhone and podcasts, this whole industry was Apple's idea and they're laying back allowing everyone in.

And cry me a river about the Siri thing. All information was anonymous and untraceable. Apple could release these recordings to the public and it would do diddly-squat!
Unlike spyware companies like Facebook and Google who know who your children are, where you live and what you purchase.

Anonymized and untraceable are not one and the same.

Google anonymized their voice recordings too before sending them out for 3rd party transcription. It still did not prevent a dishonest contracted person from taking a few containing personal information such as an address or person's name to a newspaper reporter who dedicated themselves to identifying the person behind the voice. successfully I might add allowing them to leap to the inference Google must be sharing personal information.

But Apple and Google were each doing the same thing, relegating a user to a number instead and otherwise attempting to separate the recordings from an identifiable person.  So yeah it's not all "untraceable".

Side note: The same source claimed Apple also assigned certain demographics to the supplied voice recordings such as general location, male or female, what app the recording came from, that type of thing. So Apple does apparently keep track of a little more than you understand them to.

lkrupp said:

More fodder for the spec monkeys. 9to5Mac spins this story as a negative because the test results show the 11 Pro Max is worse than last year's XS Max. I have a close friend, an engineer, who studies the spec sheets of everything he intends to purchase, be it an automobile, a toaster, or recently a hot tub. It takes him weeks or months to make a decision based on features vs specs vs price. Style, design, experience apparently don’t enter into the equation much at all. To each his own.