There are a lot of useful things a smartphone could do with an always on microphone. It could hear you arranging to meet up with a friend, and offer to create a reminder based on the details. It could warn you if the restaurant you're going to is closed. It could keep notes on all your conversations for all those times you forget something your friend said yesterday.
It could be pretty awesome, if only we could trust anyone to do this kind of thing.
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There are a lot of useful things a smartphone could do with an always on microphone. It could hear you arranging to meet up with a friend, and offer to create a reminder based on the details. It could warn you if the restaurant you're going to is closed. It could keep notes on all your conversations for all those times you forget something your friend said yesterday.
It could be pretty awesome, if only we could trust anyone to do this kind of thing.
There's the rub, I think the NSA revelations and everyone collaborating with them, wittingly or unwittingly, proves we never can.