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Not yet at least. Once attitudes towards privacy change further towards continual surveillance they'll be the first to flip the switch and turn it on.
by cantrip 9y ago
Not yet at least. Once attitudes towards privacy change further towards continual surveillance they'll be the first to flip the switch and turn it on.
- rando444 9y agoWell currently they'd have to completely rebuild the hardware. This person gave a very good explanation here: https://np.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/7m91u9/if_google_devices_only_start_listening_once_you/drsdxe1/ https://np.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/7m91u9/if_go...
- pavlov 9y agoThese devices will get replaced every few years anyway. Having to send out new hardware to customers is absolutely no problem for Amazon.
- woolvalley 9y agoThen by that point privacy as a selling point apple will have the homepod for sale? I have a bunch, and you only really use them for about 5 things, with the most useful thing being music.
- emodendroket 9y agoMight be pretty expensive to do that.
- deeth_starr_v 9y agoI've used the microphone hardware that Echo uses and it doesn't stream audio until the wake word is received.