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The cost for Privacy is pretty big in terms of loss of convenience. If people really cared about it duckduckgo would be huge and gmail would have never gotten

by baldfat 10y ago

The cost for Privacy is pretty big in terms of loss of convenience. If people really cared about it duckduckgo would be huge and gmail would have never gotten off the ground. Facebook would be a desert. Most people feel comfortable sharing and being a mostly open book. Only real privacy people care about is who gets to unlock their phone. Most people are lost in that their privacy is they are one flake in a snowstorm. I seriously had friends for year say "Don't put my kids on the internet." After a few years that all goes away due to the ease of sharing life with friends and families. So when people who own iPhone see Amazon's Alexia and their horrible Siri they buy the Echo from Amazon. Apple just makes things harder for their customers with their attempts on privacy.

grzm 10y ago
> Apple just makes things harder for their customers with their attempts on privacy. In addition to Siri, what else would you put on the list of things made harder by Apple's privacy positions/implementations? (Edited for clarity.)
gurkendoktor 10y ago
Siri being complete crap has nothing to do with privacy, in fact the original iteration of Siri sent everything to the cloud for processing. I honestly don't know how the meme got started that privacy, out of all things, is hurting Siri. Siri cannot even remember the subject of the last question. It cannot answer meaningful questions about anything on the internet. Its knowledge of "places of interest" is terrible because Apple's database is years behind Google's. I've given up on "Hey Siri" because it just doesn't work. If Siri is almost useless when it comes to publicly accessible information, then how would it help to give it centralised access to private information? (Or the other way around: If Siri worked well, but was limited to publicly available information, it would still be freaking awesome. But I have my doubts about the current iteration of AI.)

by baldfat 10y ago

grzm 10y ago

> Apple just makes things harder for their customers with their attempts on privacy. In addition to Siri, what else would you put on the list of things made harder by Apple's privacy positions/implementations? (Edited for clarity.)

gurkendoktor 10y ago

Siri being complete crap has nothing to do with privacy, in fact the original iteration of Siri sent everything to the cloud for processing. I honestly don't know how the meme got started that privacy, out of all things, is hurting Siri. Siri cannot even remember the subject of the last question. It cannot answer meaningful questions about anything on the internet. Its knowledge of "places of interest" is terrible because Apple's database is years behind Google's. I've given up on "Hey Siri" because it just doesn't work. If Siri is almost useless when it comes to publicly accessible information, then how would it help to give it centralised access to private information? (Or the other way around: If Siri worked well, but was limited to publicly available information, it would still be freaking awesome. But I have my doubts about the current iteration of AI.)