y2an

Lacking in build quality? I don’t think so, Apple never turns out a shabbily built product.

It advances the state of the art at the low end of the range. It uses an in-house modem which pushes up Apple’s margins and gives more flexibility for dealing with tariffs or discounting. It supports Apple Intelligence, which is crucial to Apple’s claim that their product range is ready for AI. It divorces from still having devices with Lightning connectors in the product mix. Not everyone wants the best camera, just an adequate one. I don’t think the 16e is for me, but I think it is for a lot of people. 11% is not to be sniffed at!

Would you trust this carrier with your personal information? They have access to your location and call history. Call home and get a free visit from ICE…

If anything, Apple has been too timid in introducing some of these obvious features sooner and I wonder if that was because of concern for third-party developers or questions about IP ownership? As for the third parties, however good their products are, have they ever had any leverage to protect themselves against competition from anyone (Apple included)? Perhaps they have always been living on borrowed time. 

“Ordered”? There is no such power. 

From what little has been rumored, I don’t think this is intended to be mainly an interactive device, rather a microphone to listen to every conversation around the wearer and transmit that conversation back to open AI. 100 million of these, 100 million sets of private conversations captured without the consent of the participants and used to boost OpenAI’s models. Very, very scary. An enormous intrusion into the lives of millions of people. The actual utility to the user will be through multiple interfaces including on screen information on their other devices, and presumably AI agents acting in the background on spoken requests.