Finally, someone solved the age old problem of ears not seeing well enough
Fuck right off, dipshits.
What really sucks about this is that there's a version of us in the infinite multiverses where these companies and politicians develop and maintain trust so that we can actually benefit from some of these innovations without just feeling paranoid and taken advantage of, but instead, in their hubris, they make us hate them and their tech.
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.
I can literally throw a rock outside and hit someone in the head wearing some type of headphones. There are tons of options out there.
AirPods aren't impressive and Apple isn't focused on exciting their customers like they were a decade ago. My old Apple Watch died recently and I replaced it with another brand. Be loyal to Apple the same way they are loyal to you.
Oh, brilliant! This is exactly what I wanted and directly solves so many problems and frustrations I have with the status quo! Thank goodness for such innovation! I feel seen!
Edit: oops, that should say "I hope everyone involved in bringing this product to market gets given an STI by a hippopotamus". Silly autocorrect.
~~"autocorrect"~~ AI
~~"autocorrect"~~ ~~AI~~ glorified autocorrect…
Wait
they saw the outrage at meta glasses and decided "I need this"
Yeah, because I really want my fucking headphones recording video.
I think most people won't be worrying about their own headphones.
Very true.
Or people walking around me with their camera headphones pointed at me even when they don‘t realize it. Fucking love this big brother economy.
It's Apple. People will buy them no matter what
The AirPods’ cameras “aren’t designed” to snap photos or video but instead can take in “visual information in low resolution” that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.
So you got to hover that leek next to your ears? Nice they are low resolution but if they can recognise something sitting on a kitchen counter in front of you then that is not a relevant argument. They can 100% be used to identify people standing in front of you as well and that is going to be outside anyones control.
That shit illegal in states that have recording laws. Someone needs to sue.
They probably are designed for low resolution because Apple couldn't mass produce better cameras affordably. Plus there is other hardware they don't have space for.
This will most likely follow the iPhone camera business model where new model AirPods will keep getting upgraded cameras.
Ewwwww.
Apple is also developing smart glasses and an AI pendant that could launch as soon as early 2027, according to Gurman.
Nobody asked for this. This AI push is stagnating innovation.
Also, link is paywalled. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theverge.com/tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production
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.
Well atleast I know who to avoid once they are available.
Even if I wanted AI in my AirPods, how is this gonna work for people with long hair? This makes no sense.
...users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them ... may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.
Those are some pretty underwhelming use-cases. I can't see the world beating a path to anyone's door for that. Even if you were so excited about these features that you were willing to overlook the privacy concerns, it seems like the phone you've already got would probably be just fine as a conduit for such services.
And if we're not ignoring the privacy concerns these use cases are definitely not worth putting everyone in front of you under this form of surveillance for a US tech giant and ultimately the US government. The price for society to pay is way too high.
Take a picture of your fridge with a better angle than your ears have.
Use GPS.
Done. I held up my GPS-enabled smart phone I paid $50 for 10 years ago to my eye line, better yet I was able to get a real-time preview of the angle of the picture to ensure everything's in shot.
Surely it will all run on the phone anyway
If your phone is too much of a pain to get out of your pocket, surely a watch or bracelet is a better form factor for this.
Well yeah but they've already reached saturation with their watches so now they need a new product to sell you
Why is this shit legal...
No.
Fuck. Tom Scott was right.
A solution in search of a problem
Does no one at apple have long hair?
Hope not otherwise they will add lidar or some other shit to get though hair collecting even more data
every day brings another reason for me to just stay in my fucking room
Wait until you're an adult. Staying in your room turns into never leave the house
i'm well over 45. thankfully got my "midlife crisis" out of the way in my 20s, before fullblown fascist surveillance police state happened. don't need to go anywhere, i'm set
Hard pass and also don’t have $400 for shit that’s not going to hold a battery charge for long.
I like AirPods (Pro) but this is a real no-go (for me). If this really gets pushed and in the stores, will not purchase them.
I wish companies would just get away with AI and unnecessary crap like this.
I LOVE my pros but also for sure would not buy headphones with shitty AI garbage in them. I’ve never enabled Siri on anything and never will
I have Pros gen 1 and was thinking of upgrading in the not-too-distant future since the battery life is waning. Those camera ones can fuck right off, but that also means I’ll be able to pick up some gen 3’s in closeout.
No more using my headphones for masturbation. 😆
People would enjoy these features. But they want it to happen without a camera, somehow.
So they are supposedly verboten features. Never to be done.
I want this in the same way I want a web browser on my toaster. So glad people like me finally getting our way.
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