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 Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron - who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" - has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs will never pay for itself.
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 Amazon is planning to deploy up to 5,105 low Earth orbit satellites that will use Globalstar spectrum to provide voice, data, messaging, and emergency services to devices like the iPhone. Amazon's project is expected to improve existing iPhone satellite features and support new features.
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Despite the temptation to enter what might become a $40 billion market, Apple has reportedly decided to delay the introduction of its smart glasses until 2027. The company apparently wants to figure out a better balance between privacy and convenience.
If it gets that right, Apple might be able to bring to market glasses people can wear in public without making everyone around them wonder whether they, their children, their private conversations or even corporate data are being quietly recorded or filmed.
It's a sensible move. During the first internet gold rush, many argued that trading privacy for convenience would be more than justified by the benefits. Years later, that bargain looks a great deal less attractive than it did.
We've seen this story
After all, since then we've seen the likes of Cambridge Analytica and the evolution of digital state surveillance (and state-adjacent surveillance "businesses" such as NSO). We've also seen the dubious rise of data brokers, creepy "personalized" ads that seem to follow private conversations around, and all the other parasites that breed in the murk when privacy is diluted.
None of these things is good. More people than ever now seem to understand that wh
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Now that Samsung has jumped into the crowded AI-powered glasses arena alongside Apple, Google, Meta, and others, CISOs and IT leaders are again having to think through whether it makes sense to establish enterprise restrictions on such devices, given the likely data leakage and privacy and compliance issues.
And even if those tech leaders decide that such policies might make sense, the logistical hurdles to universally enforcing them outside the office are all but insurmountable.
For example, it is up to individual wearers to choose their device's settings, making it difficult for IT policies around data acquisition and usage to be enforced. Worse, AI devices have a history of ignoring guardrails. That means that a setting that limits how data is used may not necessarily be obeyed.
One possible mitigating factor is that smart glasses typically have a light on the frame that activates whe
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