Nilay Patel

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36,692 appearances 132 recordings 4 series first heard Aug 2024 last heard yesterday

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Can John Ternus find Apple's next big thing? · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

Visual intelligence six, nine months from now. voice-verified

And then you're gonna do it with a pair of smart glasses and you're gonna walk into all of the other things. voice-verified

And it feels like Apple knows that there's a next generation of user interfaces coming that is AI powered that requires an amount of ambient capture, whether that's just listening so you can talk to it, or whether it's visual so you can see the world around you. voice-verified

And they haven't solved the social privacy aspect. voice-verified

There are white papers about how they might have solved the technical database privacy aspect, right? voice-verified

They've got private cloud compute and they're gonna encrypt the data and they're not gonna store this and that. voice-verified

And I don't think any of that's gonna overcome the social privacy aspect. voice-verified

Well, there is a cost if you think there's about to be a wave of AI devices that are doing always on transcripts and meeting recordings and open AI is gonna do something. voice-verified

I mean that we have seen a wave. voice-verified

We're not there yet to do this. voice-verified

can just, this is like Microsoft stuff. voice-verified

You're like, here's a preview of a feature. voice-verified

Don't even consider that stuff. voice-verified

Eventually this will get good. voice-verified

And you've just foreclosed the competitor. voice-verified

Well, the other thing is, is they had voice-verified

But do you think that stuff is compatible with Apple's reputation for privacy? voice-verified

This is the real question I'm getting at, is they might not have told the right story about the watch. voice-verified

They're gonna have to tell the right story about AirPods with cameras in them in a world where people are shooting spray foam at flock cameras because they don't want them in their communities, right? voice-verified

There's there's a connection between these two ideas. voice-verified

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