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Fair point. I think the difference that the voice assistants bring is that the pre-existing technologies require the user to type something, thus requiring a specific, active decision to do so. The voice ones, if in constant listening mode, require the user to b conscious of what they are...

I agree that historically Apple have been more hardware-centric than both Amazon and Google. I believe that will change as they consider the profits to be made in exploiting the data they hold, and could hold. No person is going to listen to Siri or Alexa (but you know that). Instead...

Did you think that Apple were the sort of company that would deliberately slow down older models of their phones through OS updates to “encourage” their customers to buy a new one?

That too, of course.

Yep, but disabled Siri with a hack from one of the software guys at work.

Yep. Like cars, trains, planes, phones, computers, farmers, butchers, supermarkets, clothes manufacturers, lawnmowers... I don’t own one due to not wanting a spy in the house. “But they don’t record anything you say”, you say? Well, I don’t know about that.