Reminder: Some models reported to regenerate stuff close to their training material in the right circumstances, could be seen as a kind of industrial espionage laundering.

I had to go into each app's security settings and opt out of allowing Apple Intelligence.

They now want the watch to record audio all day and give you "AI recaps of your day". They stress the data stays in the watch.

Until it doesn't.

I don’t like this. No opt out option for cookies.

After nokia N9 I got the Jolla phone. Then the Jolla C. Eventually as Jolla was struggling at the time my work e-mails did not work etc.

I had to make a choice between pest and cholera.

I chose apple as it was more privacy oriented at least in talks.

But if that “promise” flies also out of window…then what?

Does a phone that one can truly own and also works in corporate setting (sideload intune in a separate container) exists? Something that works with as litlle as possible tuning to make it work? Something that our IT department approves? Banking apps need to work.

I’m open for suggestions nevertheless I feel like we are prisoners in some sense.

I used to have a separate work phone but carrying two phones all the time got annoying after a couple of years.

Backflip seems like a stretch from what the article says. But when Googles policies have me seriously considering if avoiding the walled garden was worth it, its a pretty unfortunate slip that says a lot about what Apple's leadership is thinking.

I think we've all seen the enshitification playbook enough to know "accept or not now" just means its a matter of time before its not an option.

People need to learn that Apple is like all companies and treat consumer friendly actions like any other feature to add or cut when they think it is the best competitive advantage they have to play.

We need smartphones that we can actually own and control. Root access with locked bootloader and good security.

Apple doesn't care about user privacy, was that meant to be surprising?

Stopped updating my iPhone 16 Pro in hopes of jailbreaking it one day, it would be nice to find a Linux phone as well someday with decent hardware.

Lol

No way? Apple? OMG.. They'd never... Would they?

In case people haven't worked it out, Apple's business model has always been screw-everyone, to the point that they even sent out letters to other resellers customers (at a unrelated Apple reseller) to buy Applecare...

In fact, I would be surprised if they also weren't using the App store metrics to identify ideas/apps they should copy and target too (or, companies to buy).

If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

If you remember Antennagate, Steve bent himself out of place to pretend their problem was the same as their competitors.

Multi-Touch phone. "Oh we patented that". They'd hate for their customers to mistake them for inventing multitouch. All those customers who came into our reseller who heard "macs can't get viruses" were just their own stupidity. Not misleading advertising

Can’t we just make this opt in??? I guess that’s the reason we don’t get Siri AI in the EU for now

Oh, how unexpected!

Apple is relying on an opt-in procedure: When activating Siri AI, the manufacturer asks for help in improving the chatbot, as developers with access to the release candidate of iOS 27 report.

The update will be released to the public on Monday, September 14.

You can either agree to this or press a visually inconspicuous “Not now” button. The dialog cannot be completely dismissed. Users can switch it off again after activation in “Settings > Analysis & Improvements”.

Insert always has been meme

Apple being Apple, in the end.

Gaben where is my steam phone ?