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Siri concerns 1 Siri concerns 2

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Emphatical­ly NOT getting a HomePod. I have an Echo and Dot, and Alexa is 100 times better at understand­ing and responding than Siri is. I can’t even get Siri to work on the iPhone. I ask her to call someone in my contacts list and she looks up stores in my area. I was kind of excited about a new iMac until I saw the price… Emphatical­ly not getting that either. Amber Houk What I have against the HomePod is that, just like with the Google appliance, we put a device in our house that is continuous­ly listening to everything that is said in the house. Ten years ago, if anyone had predicted this, we would have yelled MADNESS. Now we pay for it. And we all know that anything that goes over the Internet is never 100% safe. Johan Rosman Us, we’re still wary of smart electricit­y meters. About half of all US electricit­y customers have one, but who wants your life reported to your utility company minute by minute?

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