My Watch Should Listen To Me

I have been pondering the Audio Intelligence Live Rewind feature that Apple announced in the last keynote, and even though I know I am very late to this entire discussion, I still want to go on the record about it. In short: The feature is stupid, and was demoed poorly (you can usually just ask people to repeat what they said, and the idea that anyone would prefer using the watch is bonkers) Rather than adding value to the watch, it makes it a target (companies and specific locations are likely to start banning its use) In the current AI/privacy climate, Apple will likely not launch it at all, regardless of what they stated (and, hopefully, not in the EU, either) I would very much prefer to map double-tapping the crown to a favourite app rather than such a dubious “feature”, but the key thing for me, though, in a world that is now awash with always-on AI recording of everything (or, as we old folk used to call it, “surveillance”), is that Apple is so late to this that it’s ridiculous.…