Nilay Patel

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38,319 appearances 137 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

But I'm just letting you know I voice-verified

I think that product would be cool for my personal benefit. voice-verified

The social cost would be too high. voice-verified

This is Apple's brand is privacy. voice-verified

And they're up against people calling the meta glasses pervert glasses. voice-verified

They're in a world where people hate flock cameras and all that surveillance that's happening online. voice-verified

They're doing Watch OS twenty seven with an always on listening feature that just does transcripts, it doesn't record or store any audio. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

It's just listening and you can double click it and it'll show you a transcript of the last fifteen seconds of what someone said to you without their permission. voice-verified

First of all, read the room. voice-verified

It doesn't even voice-verified

was told it doesn't light up. voice-verified

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

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