It’s also the reason why Siri was first to market and fell behind Alexa and Google Assistant so quickly. It took Apple a decade (2011-2021) to create the hashed then encrypted relay system to collect private and anonymous recorded feedback from customers who opt-in to improving Siri.

Competition just kept everything as user feedback data. I’ve read horror stories about the people who worked at Alexa recording review sites.

That’s fair. Apple’s been shifting away from exclusively using proprietary protocols and connectors over the last decade. Most of their remaining proprietary use is in addition to industry standard protocols and connectors now. Adding RCS support in the fall is a long-awaited adoption. They were holding out in effort to leverage GSM to adopt an encrypted RCS standard, but it didn’t happen.

CaptainEffort and I were referring to the standard copy and paste feature on all OSs, but copying on one device and wirelessly pasting it on another. It’s a very convenient piece of continuity.

Although, what you’re talking about has worked since the release of the Files app in iOS 11, seven years ago. When you connect an iPhone to Windows, it appears as a drive now. You can drag and drop any files once you authenticate.

Can you copy and paste from Android to Windows? How about Android to ChromeOS?

I love my iPhone 13 Mini. Only thing I’d change is swap the wide-angle for a telephoto. Otherwise, it’s perfect.

It even feels more like magic if you use the three-finger pinch to copy and paste.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/select-and-edit-text-iph1a9cae52c/ios#:~:text=Cut%3A Tap Cut or pinch,pinch open with three fingers.

Siri is only “listening” for a key phrase. Siri processes locally, unlike Google Assistant.

Siri learns what you need. Not who you are. What you ask Siri isn’t associated with your Apple ID. The power of the Apple Neural Engine ensures that the audio of your requests never leaves your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro unless you choose to share it. On-device intelligence makes your experience with Siri personal — learning your preferences and what you might want — while maintaining your privacy. And, of course, what you share with Siri is never shared with advertisers.

https://www.apple.com/siri/#:~:text=The most private digital assistant.&text=The power of the Apple,you choose to share it.

Privacy, security, reliability, creative focused design, powerful hardware and software, great customer support, ease of use from GUI to Terminal (zsh and bash)

I don’t just want AI news to fail, I want it to take the web-scraping trending post news bots down with it.

Bring investigative journalists back to news media.

Cool. I’ve asked for it twice. I’m equally skeptical. The difference is I require proof to believe it. Do you have a link?

The source code is proprietary. They’ll never release it. If Snowden has proof, then where is that?

Since both claims are unprovable, let’s look at the evidence and motive.

You believe that Apple would spend all of that money fighting the FBI in court, just so they could give the NSA a backdoor that is in direct violation of their privacy policy, potentially exposing them to a massive class action suit from users, and does not benefit them in any financially tangible way.

Time to take off the tin foil hat.

So I’m guessing you don’t have a source for me?

I have one for you. It’s the history of legal battles between Apple and the FBI.

https://epic.org/documents/apple-v-fbi-2/

I don’t put faith in everything Snowden says without explanation. Do you have a link with a detailed explanation of how this backdoor works?

Apple discloses warrant compliance on their legal site.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelines-us.pdf

Well, sometimes I need to restart it. Lol

Do you have a source on what they provide the NSA? According to their privacy policy they don’t access customer data unless they receive a warrant requesting iCloud data, and they have no access to data on the phone itself or what is transmitted.

Most Apple users want the “cage” for its near-mindless security and privacy. I used to troubleshoot and diagnose PCs all day. I got tired of managing my HTC Windows phone in 2008 and went to iPhone. It’s similar to running Windows Home for the smaller attack surface than Pro, or trading admin for user rights. I love not having to worry about the reliability, privacy, or security maintenance of my daily driver.

Pro tip: if you add !g to your search results in DuckDuckGo, it returns Google results

That’s not a smart choice to finance. First release is almost always overpriced and going to rapidly devalue. There’s a ton of R&D overhead to cover with initial launch of a new product line. The next iteration will be less expensive, or at least have multiple models with tiered pricing.

I use Spotlight for calculations so often that I forget iPad doesn’t have one.

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