After yesterday’s creepy live rewind/siri recap announcement, I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t sparked more discussions and backslash
As I understand it, Apple is adding ambient conversation features to the Apple Watch that can listen to, process, and summarize what’s being said. Apple says the processing happens locally and is privacy-preserving, but I’m not sure that fully answers the security question:
What happens when the person sitting across from you is wearing one?
We already discourge employees to bring phones or recordung devices into very sensitive meetings. Are organizations now supposed to treat Apple Watches the same way? What a mess.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, and I’m still trying to work through the implications, but this seems like a pretty big unnessisary expansion of what an ordinary-looking wearable can do. I also think some of these features are a little silly anyway—as if the poor battery life weren’t enough—especially when Apple keeps adding capabilities without much obvious practical value. To me, this sounds way more significant than almost anything else announced this week, including the LG TVs story. That’s why I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention and backlash.
I’d be interested to hear how others are thinking about this.
