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So was/is Copilot+ and Recall (seriously, how do I turn it on to test it?) and that didn't stop people.
Apple dropped a whole lot of vague shit that they “promised” would have some sort of holistic and on-device/private benefit to users if they pulled a full data profile of you together, kept it on-device, kept it secure, etc, etc.
Windows stealthed an update onto PCs that suddenly started capturing and processing unsecured screenshots of everything that users were doing without ever telling anyone why or what it’s for or how it would work. People found out that it was unsecured by looking in its unsecured folder. It wasn’t the same thing.
That said, obviously, Apple Intelligence is bullshit and doesn’t work or do anything of any use other than making Siri slightly prettier.
Your characterization of both of those events is inaccurate and aggressively framed in opposite directions, and I'm very curious to know why.
I mean, forget the MS bashing, go nuts on them. Why treat Apple any differently? Back in the day they at least were the underdog, but now? What's with that?
You asked, and the author of the article asked, by proxy “buhwhy no one mad at apple for same thing” and I’m saying they weren’t the same thing. Apple deserves distinctly different shit. It’s not only my “characterization,” it accords with reality, and is why the author and you don’t see people as mad at apple for doing a different, differently shitty thing.
it’s also funny how you can tilt an average lemmy user by somehow saying bad shit about MS and Apple at the same time, I guess
No, it's an argumentative take that underplays the issues with Apple's proposed implementation and overplays the issues with MS's.
Apple's semantic search stores what you do inside an app (via an API) and they offer a feature that records everything you do and feeds it to an AI.
MS's Recall was on their insider program, and then only for a subset of their devices, so not so much "stealthed" as up for testing. They always made the same on-device promises (and since the relaunch they also have encryption for the data). I don't like either implementation, but I don't think the discrepancy in reaction matches the discrepancy in implementation.
Note that it's not a MS vs Apple thing. Chrome and Pixel phones have or are planning some Recall-adjacent features, too, that nobody ever brings up.
I'm not interested in taking sides or having an argument about it, I'm calling out how atrocious MS's PR is and how surprisingly not atrocious Apple's is. I'd argue the Pixel brand and Samsung in general also get WAY too much of a pass.
I'm curious as to why. I mean, I know why, it's because MS sucks at managing their image and always have. I'm curious as to why they don't drag everybody else down with them. I genuinely thought for a moment Recall would be the death of onboard AI features looking over your shoulder, but it clearly wasn't. Apple's slow rollout seems to have much more to do with them being incapable of a good implementation with the tech that is available and much less with them having an image issue in this area.
Also, is Recall live? I keep asking. How do I turn on Recall in my Copilot + PC? Does anybody know? Has anybody here touched Recall with their fingers? I am getting really paranoid about the whole thing being a collective prank like Santa Claus.