I think most people won't be worrying about their own headphones.

Or people walking around me with their camera headphones pointed at me even when they don‘t realize it. Fucking love this big brother economy.

It's Apple. People will buy them no matter what

This AI push is stagnating innovation.

I think it's the other way around, corporate consolidation (including capturing our governments and getting all research funding) killed innovation a while ago and now AI is just the latest non-idea that is being used to cover up that none of the corporations have any new ideas. Even Apple's latest good idea, ARM laptops, was basically done by cheap Linux nettops a decade ago.

This is the truth. I got a free Oura ring and I would love to try it, but they're in bed with palantir. Fuck that.

So many interesting developments, but I'm unwilling to sell my soul to the devil to try them. What a dream it would be to use them without worrying that they're going to sell every possible bit of data about me to the lowest bidder.

Take a picture of your fridge with a better angle than your ears have.

Use GPS.

Surely it will all run on the phone anyway

And if we're not ignoring the privacy concerns these use cases are definitely not worth putting everyone in front of you under this form of surveillance for a US tech giant and ultimately the US government. The price for society to pay is way too high.

If your phone is too much of a pain to get out of your pocket, surely a watch or bracelet is a better form factor for this.

Yeah. But mind that the bulk price of mediocre cameras is insignificant next to the sales price of AirPods.

I think the idea is that people can walk around and chat with their AI companion, and it sees what they see. No need for any fussing about with hardware. That's exactly Apple's thing. Effortless technology for people who don't want to deal with the mechanics of technology.

"autocorrect" AI

Note: This is frowned upon.

I LOVE my pros but also for sure would not buy headphones with shitty AI garbage in them. I’ve never enabled Siri on anything and never will

Hope not otherwise they will add lidar or some other shit to get though hair collecting even more data

Wait, isn’t the EU generally chock full of surveillance? Including some member countries going so far as to have facial recognition as a norm?

I imagine they’ll still sell the non-camera version.

I can't use in ear buds because they get ejected by my ear canal. But I have to wear hats so I can't wear 🎧 style. I got some Shokz bone conduction head phones and they are awesome during daily activities. You can get better sound elsewhere, but hard to beat the convenience.

I don't know if there's a proper name for it but most companies doing Earbuds also have models without the rubber nubs just like the first picture.

I really like the ear-loop style so that they don't have to be jammed into my ear canal. They (and the accompanying case) are slightly larger, but I find them much more comfortable and no concerns about them falling out even when moving around a lot.

I'm very particular about what goes into my ear as well.

If you like wired, they have wired "earpods" with the same shape. Even a 3.5mm version, last we checked.

-- Frost

You're right, I also prefer this shape but couldn't find a good one. I'm using Sony WF-1000XM5 now and am quite happy with them, but it would be better if they made this shape

AirPods are earbuds, whereas the ones with tips that go into the ear channel are IEMs. The latter are better in every way in my opinion, but that doesn't help if they hurt. I use foam tips, they give the best seal and comfort in my opinion.

What speaks against headphones? Like on-ear or over-ear headphones.

You can probably still find the older airpods.

I wish you the best of like finding them, but I genuinely think you’re on the minority of the market. I upgraded from the first to the second and the original pods physically hurt my ears wedging a bit of hard plastic into soft tissue

You'd just be paying it forward. Ten minutes after you watch some girl's roommate jilling off, she's watching you crank your meat handle.

That's already the case, time to make it worse

"Aren't designed to" is very different from "designed not to".

Not necessarily, you could compute embeddings on device, but that requires decent compute.

And embeddings are reversible and don’t preserve privacy. It’s not meaningfully better than video.

I already assume that everything that goes into a cloud somewhere WILL be used for other purposes, at the very least as AI training material, and this will be no different. And the plan is for at least some (possibly all?) video to automatically be extracted to some kind of cloud storage, no matter how temporarily. From the article:

The AirPods will have a “small” LED light to indicate when “visual data is being fed into the cloud.”

That's a hell of a non-answer to all the privacy concerns Apple already knows the public has. Since this entire article is itself just a manufacturer-friendly puff piece for pre-release promotion, the only conclusion I can draw is that Apple is willfully holding back the specifics on all of that.

And again with the fucking notification light, like that's the solution to all privacy concerns. On AirPods a light can't possibly be more than a pinhole itself, just because of the size of the device, so that'll be even worse than Meta's joke of a notification light.

"Well, the plague didn't work. I guess I'll try raining hell fire." -- God