That's a pretty ridiculous expectation to put on an end user. It's a normal phone doing normal phone things.
Listening for watch words 24/7 is not a normal phone thing.
"Normal" phone conversations are between ~two people.
This voice assistant crap is sending people's audio to - at least - Google for processing/analysis/storage/etc.
It is now.
At least from the perspective of your everyday-person.
From your perspective, this is not the case. But I wouldn't put the hacker news crowd in the "everyday-person" category.
Blame the companies, but don't put that ridiculous expectation on normal people.
Sorry, but trying to normalise this crap is just not going to work.
Not sure why you're even attempting to.
I'm just recognizing the current reality. I also agree that it's pretty crappy.
That's a pretty ridiculous expectation to put on an end user. It's a normal phone doing normal phone things.