They offer their services for free because they harvest our information, and people can't resist free. Perhaps if they start charging subscriptions in lieu of data harvesting, there would be an exodus? I wouldn't miss them. We've lived without them all before.It's crazy the amount of research that's required to find one that isn't taking your videos. Amazon and Meta would be the last two companies I'd trust at all; I'd put Tesla at the top, then Google and Microsoft to fill out the top 5.
And you think your Apple stuff is not doing the same thing?Uhm so this thing is constantly listening? Is it processing all that data locally? I highly doubt it. That seems to be quite some invasive data scraping...
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Have you actually used it? A product that hasn’t even been released (at least in the UK). Even if it’s only half as good as ChatGPT5, that’s still a massive upgrade and lightyears better than Siri pretending to be useful.Paying to put something in your living room that will advertise to you non-stop. Amazon Echo screen devices are trash. And Alexa+ is as dumb as most AI out there.
Well, sell me that bridge then. Apple does not listen in on my house, as confirmed by my firewall.And you think your Apple stuff is not doing the same thing?
Sadly, it is happening everywhere and if you believe that Apple don't data scrape, then I have a bridge to sell you
It's amazing what some people will overlook with their Apple colored glasses on lolllllllllAnd you think your Apple stuff is not doing the same thing?
Sadly, it is happening everywhere and if you believe that Apple don't data scrape, then I have a bridge to sell you
The killer feature has to be home cinema. 5 echo dots, 3 at the front and two for rears. This is the one thing i really want from the homepods. Two at the front, mini for the centre and two minis for the rears. Come on Apple make it happen![]()
Yes. Since the first day that they released it.Have you actually used it? A product that hasn’t even been released (at least in the UK). Even if it’s only half as good as ChatGPT5, that’s still a massive upgrade and lightyears better than Siri pretending to be useful.
And yes, even if they paid me to put a billboard with a speaker in my living room just to nag me with ads, I’d still say no.
Love my Echo, use it to play XM and Apple Music in my office.
Of course Apple does it too. All the big tech companies do. But I’ve had way more instances of talking about something and then getting ads for it when I had an echo than when I got rid of it and replaced it with a HomePod. Between Amazon and Apple, I don’t trust either, but I distrust Amazon more.And you think your Apple stuff is not doing the same thing?
Sadly, it is happening everywhere and if you believe that Apple don't data scrape, then I have a bridge to sell you
Do I trust Apple with privacy far more than Amazon? Absolutely. But the HomePod mini is so incredibly horrible, and the Echo Dot I got my parents several months ago has worked so flawlessly, that I'm likely to put a Bezos surveillance bot (Dot or Dot Max, not Show) back in my kitchen.