I'm right-handed but I always keep my phone in my left pocket and use it with my left hand (keys have always been in my right pocket). I'm also pretty curious about the answer to this.

Why do you think eSIM is a US only thing? Common in Western Europe and Japan and South Korea and Mexico and Canada and Australia and Thailand as well. China and India are the big outliers, but that can change.

It isn't recording or storing audio, so laws against audio recording don't apply.

That really bothers me. It might be legal for Apple to do this but it's still creepy as fuck.

They're still recording everywhere and sending a transcription to iCloud and they're doing it without consent.

This has the same vibes as those Meta glasses. It's something that people will force on others.

Aren't you just confused about this whole situation? You do know that the human the watch is attached to has ears right? Which record and store the information?

You have no expectation of privacy next to another human in public places.

No, I don’t think so.

Human memory is well known to be unreliable. There’s a clear difference with “he said, she said” type recollections and what Apple is doing. People forget things and they get things wrong.

There may indeed be no expectation of privacy in public but this still really creepy and slightly threatening.

It’s always listening and allows you to go back without pressing record before hand.

Now you have a potential written record of every off colour remark, joke and personal discussion you over hear.

Maybe you think the world would be better if we all watch what we say in public further, I don’t.

I mean.. for some situations that human frailty in remembering correctly is a strong argument FOR this tech. For example in criminal investigations.

I do agree that social media pile ons won't be helped by this. But these things being text only should hopefully make them less convincing.

> They're still recording everywhere and sending a transcription to iCloud and they're doing it without consent.

Plenty of jurisdictions are single consent.

Moreover, what is the difference with using your phone to record?

Transcriptions count if you’re using them to intercept and record oral communications between others.

The recording doesn’t have to be audio to violate the Federal Wiretap Act.

Cool idea, but anything that doesn’t sync offline is useless for me as a shopping list. It is good to add things to the list while in the kitchen, but the real value is having the list available while I’m inside the walk-in cooler at Costco. Reminders in iOS syncs in the background, and is up to date on my phone and my wife’s phone.

Looking at what is on the website and in the App Store, I still don’t have a good understanding of what this app even does. It prints something based on your calendar and some self-help prompts?

App Store rules aside, since this app has no free trial, it should be easier for a potential customer to understand what this app is attempting to be.

It definitely has a free trial, and yeah it prints 3 tools:

* a timeline which pulls in your calendar (you can use this to timebox as well as timetrack.)

* a daily list of prompts, which are scheduled using recur rules (which you can generate using natural language.) a prompt is useful for lots of things, which is the hard part of explaining it

* a list of your reminders for the reminders app, which can also work like a lighter version of prompts and/or todos.

Basically this app combines digital and paper planning and journaling into one page that's easier to carry and more useful than anything else (imo.)

These three bullet points paint a much clearer picture of what this app does (I’ve not used it, so I can’t say whether or not the picture it paints is accurate) than the screenshots or description that are currently on the App Store.

I was wrong about the lack of a free trial.

“Comparable” is maybe true if we are talking about single core performance, but for memory bandwidth, the M1 Max is about 8 times faster. Wider bus, lower latency, not even close.