Apple’s Upcoming Smart Home Device Won’t Record Video

And then there's the other aspect of it, which is that Flock cameras have been in the news lately because there's been this pushback, because people in general feel like they're probably just having a bit too much surveillance in their lives, a bit too much tracking. What's your take on that and how does the Apple product fit into that, say, global wider narrative? Well, first thing, I totally understand the narrative, right? Tim Cook is tight with Donald Trump. Everyone is talking about how some of these cameras are being used to siphon data and take pictures of people and create a facial recognition database for the government and for ice and whomever to use. But I think anyone who covers Apple close enough, or even remotely close enough would know that that would be hogwash for Apple, right? Like, I'm sure people will accuse Apple of doing that and it's just going to be ridiculous. But I think we all know the reality is far different that Apple won't be doing that with our with our data, even though this product will have facial recognition to be able to determine, uh, and tell the user, hey, Mark just walked into the living room, or Vlad just walked into the kitchen or whomever just left the house, or, um, the dog is in is in the dining room, right? It will be able to do that. But again, they could pitch this is an alternative to that very disturbing idea of mass surveillance, because you're not getting anything but text descriptions. There's nothing you can do with it. There's no video recording. And so this is going to be the first mainstream video camera that's a have home video security camera that doesn't give you any footage. And I think that's a pretty compelling pitch. And people would be like, um, you know, maybe I should try that.