Well, I’m not talking about cameras. I’m asking about my oven not because I think I shouldn’t care about it, but because I genuinely want to know why I should. Like, I can’t imagine some algorithm is saying “guys, this guy set his oven to 350 an hour before dinner, we got him!”

What time you usually cook, so the best time to show you other advertisements

I guess I can grant you that they would learn that I eat dinner around dinner time, maybe a little later than most but also not abnormally so.

or if you’re in the store once super targeted customer by customer pricing gets implemented (it’s already in place in many locations)

I’ve seen that stores want to be able to adjust prices based on time of day or whatever, and my store has mostly switched to eink price labels so it’s a matter of time… But per person? How are they supposed to offer one price to me and another to someone reaching for the gallon of milk at the same time?

Honest question though: what of real value can a company gain by knowing that I turned my oven to 350, or that I switched my air conditioning on? Assuming app permissions match what’s needed and I’m not giving up my contacts or whatever. Or is that a more common issue than I realize?

As (currently) the only other person to reply to that net-upvoted comment, pretty much that. I also did not up- or downvote

Which isn’t even called the iWatch

I mean, he is stepping down from that position but will continue to be with the company. If the headline just said he’s stepping down it could imply that he’s leaving entirely which would not be true.