Plenty of places don't allow smartwatches, cellphones, or anything with radio. This will become more common as everything magically needs an internet connection to give even basic functionality.
Why is "record audio, broadcast to mothership" a basic design tenet of all the new voice things? This has a very real cost in privacy, security, bandwidth, and reliability.
Most things can trivially turn off their voice addon. But once that gets better, will some Design Jackass come in and say "voice is just superior, fuck the rest"? We'll have to listen to that asshole in eight years if we don't provide the needed pushback now.
How is this complex? (Score:2)
Plenty of places don't allow smartwatches, cellphones, or anything with radio. This will become more common as everything magically needs an internet connection to give even basic functionality.
Why is "record audio, broadcast to mothership" a basic design tenet of all the new voice things? This has a very real cost in privacy, security, bandwidth, and reliability.
Most things can trivially turn off their voice addon. But once that gets better, will some Design Jackass come in and say "voice is just superior, fuck the rest"? We'll have to listen to that asshole in eight years if we don't provide the needed pushback now.