“Uh, no. Inviting something into your house that can eavesdrop on you? As bad as, or worse than cell phones. Alexa?”
After our Thanksgiving dinner, the conversation drifted into Cell phones.
Three of the adults at our dinner, who are in middle to upper management positions get so called free I phones from their companies.
All 3 told about having conversations with the phones on their desks or in their pockets,supposedly in the idle mode.
Conversations about the need to buy certain products. All three got emails from companies selling those products in a short time period after their discussions.
One of their wives before our Thanksgiving Dinner saw a tv ad telling about Apple’s new watch. She told her husband, she would like a new one for Christmas. She and he got emails telling them about the new Apple watch and Black Friday deals after her comments. That was what started the discussions above.
I’m sure that my wife’s and my Android do something similar and sometimes different.
Last year I got my wife a new Android for her birthday. We got it on line and transferred everything basically automatically.
The next morning she was crying that she had lost most of her photos.
I took her phone and in a couple of minutes, I discovered that overnight her new Android OS on her new phone had sorted her photos and put them in different categories by family, person, place and by holiday.
About a month later, I got a new Android phone, and it did the same thing after I had switched over to the new phone on the first night.
The new OS was powerful enough to do the above.
Worse is what happens the day it says “brains!”
“Inviting something into your house that can eavesdrop on you?”
That’s why I don’t use a ‘smart’ phone. It’s no secret what they can do remotely.