Siri Gets Smarter
This IS big brother
Why even life your life for yourself at all when Siri is like a digital life coach? This sounds way too intrusive to me, can people not even decide for themselves where they are going to drive? The dependence on devices like this is ludicrous. Society would collapse if the GPS or Cellular network ever stopped working for any length of time. I have a paper map in my car and it has NEVER let me down.
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First, Apple made a big of pointing out that this specific intelligence runs on your phone, not the cloud. That's the opposite of the way Google does it. So while of course your phone knows a lot about you, this isn't all getting uploaded to Apple. (Of course plenty still goes up to the Apple cloud by default, but not as much as with Google's Android.) No big brother.
Second, of course you have a choice. If you have a meeting coming up at 123 Main St, you are more than welcome to manually open Maps and enter "123 Main St" and have it navigate there (or anywhere else) and you're free to listen to those directions, or drive wherever else you please. But it's awfully handy to have a button one your home screen that says "directions to your n...
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Second, of course you have a choice. If you have a meeting coming up at 123 Main St, you are more than welcome to manually open Maps and enter "123 Main St" and have it navigate there (or anywhere else) and you're free to listen to those directions, or drive wherever else you please. But it's awfully handy to have a button one your home screen that says "directions to your n...
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