This AI push is stagnating innovation.

I think it's the other way around, corporate consolidation (including capturing our governments and getting all research funding) killed innovation a while ago and now AI is just the latest non-idea that is being used to cover up that none of the corporations have any new ideas. Even Apple's latest good idea, ARM laptops, was basically done by cheap Linux nettops a decade ago.

Also, ARM laptops were Steve Jobs’ last big idea. He put in place Apple’s last 10 year plan before he died. The first M series laptop came out nine years after his death.

The reason being that Apple is actually considered to be one of the founding members of ARM so they have unique access to the core. Moving to ARM was always the plan after moving to Intel. Apple was the first company to produce a portable ARM device, the Newton back in the early 90s before Jobs’ return.

So even that innovation isn’t exactly new.

i'm not, but thanks. not sure how "live out of bedroom" = "live at parents house" but whatever.

i'm doing perfectly fine with life. but i'm already on enough cameras everywhere i go, don't need to add apple fanboi influencers/youtubers to the mix. i'll stay in my room

Not necessarily, you could compute embeddings on device, but that requires decent compute.

And embeddings are reversible and don’t preserve privacy. It’s not meaningfully better than video.

I already assume that everything that goes into a cloud somewhere WILL be used for other purposes, at the very least as AI training material, and this will be no different. And the plan is for at least some (possibly all?) video to automatically be extracted to some kind of cloud storage, no matter how temporarily. From the article:

The AirPods will have a “small” LED light to indicate when “visual data is being fed into the cloud.”

That's a hell of a non-answer to all the privacy concerns Apple already knows the public has. Since this entire article is itself just a manufacturer-friendly puff piece for pre-release promotion, the only conclusion I can draw is that Apple is willfully holding back the specifics on all of that.

And again with the fucking notification light, like that's the solution to all privacy concerns. On AirPods a light can't possibly be more than a pinhole itself, just because of the size of the device, so that'll be even worse than Meta's joke of a notification light.

Take a picture of your fridge with a better angle than your ears have.

Use GPS.

Yeah. But mind that the bulk price of mediocre cameras is insignificant next to the sales price of AirPods.

I think the idea is that people can walk around and chat with their AI companion, and it sees what they see. No need for any fussing about with hardware. That's exactly Apple's thing. Effortless technology for people who don't want to deal with the mechanics of technology.

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This is the truth. I got a free Oura ring and I would love to try it, but they're in bed with palantir. Fuck that.

So many interesting developments, but I'm unwilling to sell my soul to the devil to try them. What a dream it would be to use them without worrying that they're going to sell every possible bit of data about me to the lowest bidder.

If its any consolation, nearly all new tech gadgets are shit anymore, still more are neat for a bit then slowly turn to shit in time, and others get abandoned and become theater props.

If you fear you're missing out, I assure you that is merely a perception, and you'd be disappointed if you tried most of that stuff. In my experience, any new tech in the past 10+ years that looked interesting ended up looking less interesting the more I learned about it, to the point I was actively disinterested before I was even done with my research on it.

I really like the ear-loop style so that they don't have to be jammed into my ear canal. They (and the accompanying case) are slightly larger, but I find them much more comfortable and no concerns about them falling out even when moving around a lot.

I'm very particular about what goes into my ear as well.

If you like wired, they have wired "earpods" with the same shape. Even a 3.5mm version, last we checked.

-- Frost