I think it’s doing on-device summarization. No transcript is retained or sent off.

That’s what I’ll be assuming

I wonder how this will be legally interpreted in states with two-party-consent recording laws

It’s a clever idea, although obviously many consumers are nervous about a proliferation of always-listening devices. The feature will be opt-in and obviously, Apple will tout its stringent privacy-preserving implementation compared to the competition. Apple’s version will not actually store audio recordings, nor will it present a transcript of conversations.

I think it will be functionally different than “recording”. When you talk to Siri or any other voice assistant, does it record your voice or simply transcribe it? This seems to be the latter.

Nothing changed in that regard. It doesn’t record audio, sound recognition runs on device. In the exact same way that all modern Apple devices (watches, phones, earbuds, …) can already listen for Hey Siri, and other brands listen for their wake words etc.

I believe Apple Watch already ships with always on Siri, but I don’t know anyone who left that turned on.

Oh don't worry. All the other apple watches around you will do it just fine with your shadow account.

"chat, get this guy a gf, please"

Exactly. People love convenience until it removes the only actual benefits of the thing it's replacing, but by then they're dependent on it.

If it listens to things for you so you can look at them 10 seconds later when you realize you didn't hear, why should your brain even bother paying attention to ANYTHING in the moment? If it summarizes your day, how much less are you going to remember because you're just not forcing your brain to think about what you've done today?

I know for a fact I've gotten much better at remembering things that happen throughout my day after I started taking a note every day with what I did. If I had something recording it all for me, I'd just become even more reliant on that thing to even remember what happened at all.

You can turn it off. In fact it says right in the article that it’s off by default.

@xenomor
What vision? It’s a wrist watch (with extras), so it should look like one.

For the record: I hate wrist watches.

Are you complaining about the hardware or the face?

• Whats the point of changing the hardware? It’s a simple, shape, already comes in multiple sizes and has the number of buttons that fit.
• Why complain about the face? Use a different one and now your Apple Watch has more design variety than a couple of dumb watches

You took one of your top 3 all time deuces today!

For 3 of those hours I looked at my iPad, ok? Thanks.