sacto joe

This is a really smart move by Apple. Looks like the market liked it as well. It looks polished and complete, and makes the most of the “ecosystem” advantage they have. And now they have the money to back this to the hilt!

Game and set, Apple.

It’s amazing to me that everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room; always-listening devices. These are the ultimate seductive and ultimate high risk-to-privacy devices made. Amazon is for some reason being given a huge pass on this, when it’s clear as day that the major reason Alexa is so much better than Siri is because every word you speak in Alexa’s presence is being spied on and tailored to your specifics.

It gives me chills to think how willingly people are sticking their heads in potential nooses. Yes, there needs to be a debate about whether we can trust even Apple in this regard. But at least Apple has a track record of going to the wall to protect our privacy. I’d trust Amazon or Google on this no farther than I could throw President Trump.

asdasd said:

sacto joe said:

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). Disinformation. Propaganda. These are tools of psychological warfare. They are also in widespread use throughout our culture, whether it is in the service of a company or a regime. This is the underbelly kept so long in the dark. This is the cancer attacking all that is healthy.

What is most frightening about this tool is that those affected/infected far too often refuse to acknowledge that they’ve been victimized. People simply don’t like to admit they’ve been duped, because it makes them look less than intelligent. And sadly, the object of so many of these attacks are the young and thus the most impressionable.

That is why sites like this, and people like DED and PED (ped30.com), are so essential to the continued health of all that we hold dear. They are warriors against the rot.

If you read this site, you need to consider what it is really doing here. It is fighting the good fight. It is keeping alive the other side, the side of objective and courteous discourse, the ripping off of the blindfolds, the letting in of air and sunlight to the fetid cesspools of lies and deceipt.

Good on us! And good on DED, PED, and all their fellow fighters against the rot!

It could be a massive disinformation campaign, a campaign agreed even by generally favourable Apple reviewers. That or Alexa is better than Siri in the home. For now. 

DED’s brush was broader than Siri, and so was my response.

As regards Siri, there’s clearly a tradeoff going on between personal privacy/security and “better” responsiveness. I’ll take the privacy side any day over a tad more convenience.

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). Disinformation. Propaganda. These are tools of psychological warfare. They are also in widespread use throughout our culture, whether it is in the service of a company or a regime. This is the underbelly kept so long in the dark. This is the cancer attacking all that is healthy.

What is most frightening about this tool is that those affected/infected far too often refuse to acknowledge that they’ve been victimized. People simply don’t like to admit they’ve been duped, because it makes them look less than intelligent. And sadly, the object of so many of these attacks are the young and thus the most impressionable.

That is why sites like this, and people like DED and PED (ped30.com), are so essential to the continued health of all that we hold dear. They are warriors against the rot.

If you read this site, you need to consider what it is really doing here. It is fighting the good fight. It is keeping alive the other side, the side of objective and courteous discourse, the ripping off of the blindfolds, the letting in of air and sunlight to the fetid cesspools of lies and deceipt.

Good on us! And good on DED, PED, and all their fellow fighters against the rot!