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apple works on creep glasses
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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The nauance is Apple won't store a copy for their own uses. That's it. Allowing users to be creeps doesn't violate their privacy posture. It's not complicated.
I assure you, those meta glasses are storing every piece of tagged data into a database globally accessible to meta engineers. They'll figure out the profit angle later, if they haven't already.
Apple's version will cost more but their profit ends with the device sale. Their engineers don't get access to global user data, there are plenty of articles on how salty this makes them.
Most people will happily sell their data for a cheaper upfront cost. And engineers flock to companies that allow them to extract data on you because it's far more fun.
It's bizarre how difficult it for people to accept the nuance here. You all literally gaslight yourselves into accepting these practices when you literally have a choice.
The refusal of the availabile choices is actually limiting the markets ability to offer even better choices. Stop hitting yourselves and playing victim.
It's literally no different than how people buy cheap shit and then complain how their only option is cheap shit despite it literally not being true.