Tech is so fucking cooked. They are clearly out of ideas and grasping at straws. This is the dumbest thing I've heard... So far.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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They are building a mobile surveillance device that will collect them the data they need to compete with the other tech giants pursuing AI. They aren't grasping, it's calculated and intentional. You seem to still think they build consumer goods for our use and not for their own.
Agreed, but will people even buy them? I like to think not, but how many morons got new iPhones for "Apple intelligence"
Of course they will. The Apple tech ecosystem is intentionally restrictive for a reason. Their cultish consumer base will keep buying whatever over prices nonsense they sell next.
I bet you every latest iPhone carrier individual thinks that this is the coolest thing on the planet
It's joever, pack up
If you care about privacy move to a country that actually allows pro-human laws to pass instead of pro-capital
In addition to privacy concerns, why is it that every time battery capacity is improved, they find a new way to drain it? They don't even last a full day
I guess they're out of ideas. When the original idea was to listen to shit in your ear.
So either private changing stalls in every locker room, or we go the starship troopers route where they have mixed showers and no one cares.
Wish Linux had cross device seamless operations like clipboard sharing and self hosted settings sharing
Obligatory KDE Connect comment.
That second bit exists w/ freeipa+ansible
Device interoperability is seen as a security vulnerability by the "Support Open Standards" community
it's inevitable imo. I'll never wear this tech but we're not too far off from a dystopian cyberpunk future, next it'll be smart contact lenses, then implants, then genetic splicing (the technology prob already exists). stopped using apple a decade ago for several reasons
spyPods
The world is moving to a risk management style surveillance network inspired by the Gestapo. If we treat everyone like a criminal, is the new world government's ideology then we will eventually catch you. I think there was a novel talking about mass surveillance networks to enforce government policies like a dystopian novel.
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But, like, why though? Who asked for this?
Because they have to compete with other tech giants and their AI initiatives or they will be left behind and eventually bought out by one of them. All these companies are in fierce competition with each other for survival right now. You still think they make products for our benefit? Those benefits are necessary for us to participate, it isn't why they make those products.
Palantir and flock
These better be very visually distinct from ordinary AirPods - I do not want to be mistaken for the sort of twat who would wear something with a camera in it 🫤
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"People don't want cameras on their glasses"
"What if we put them on their airpods?"
We ostracized the glasses by calling them "pervert glasses"
We can do the same with "pervert pods"
Or pPods, if you will
Oh so they've learnt nothing from Meta's pervert glasses?
They know. They're willing to risk it for the data they'll get.
They make them more expensive and put an apple on it, to make sure idiots buy it.
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Seems like Apple didn't get the memo as public opinion has turned on having cameras absolutely everywhere. I get that it's for "visual intelligence", but that's just some marketing to try and convince people this doesn't make you look as pervy as wearing the Meta Raybans.
Visible cameras being everywhere. People are dangerously tolerant of what they can't see.
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