Apple's Smart Home Camera Will Apparently Have 'No Video Recording'

Because you know what insurance companies love if you need to file a claim? "No, I don't have a recording of the incident, but my AI Camera told me it happened!" 😂

Checks the date to make sure it’s October 1st not April 1st 🤦‍♂️

What the F is the point of this?

Officer, I am here to report a break-in. I have a picture of the subject...
Show me please... Here it is...

Have any of you thought for just one second that maybe this device isn’t actually a security camera and is instead a presence sensor that uses a camera?

It might have an insane fisheye lens or capture IR, UV or some other wavelength of light that isn’t useful for video monitoring but great for presence/action detection.

Endless uses for this:
-Tv turns on when you sit on the couch.
-Reading lights turn on when you grab and open a book.
-Door unlocks as you get close and reach for the knob.
-Your car can run climate preconditioning if you grab your keys then head out the door.
-Lights can turn on if you point at them or enter a room.
-Lights turn off when you pull the sheets up to go to sleep.
-Morning routine can run when you get out of bed.
-A different routine could run if your partner gets out of bed.
-Siri could watch along as you cook, is aware when you approach the next step of a recipe, and can read or display it for you. Could automatically set timers if needed when they’re needed and dismiss them for you.

It looks like Apple is thinking a lot about privacy here, and how people may react to having AI cameras all over their home. This won't be just for security, it will probably mesh with the rest of the Siri AI infrastructure to allow to follow you through the house and be ready for you to talk with it. Siri can't know who it is talking with without that kind of information...a big point about the new device is that it can recognize a person and change its interface to that person's setup.

It may go a bit too far...there are videos that people want to look at to see what happened. It also may be an attempt to save on HKSV space usage...if there are a bunch of these cameras in the house it becomes a lot of video uploaded to Apple's servers, and then they will charge for it (which means everyone paying for an iCloud+ top tier). It could be that this is the feature for people who want the features of Siri AI but don't need video from all the cameras, so it does an on-device (or on-network) analysis but doesn't send video anywhere. Maybe we will be able to select which cameras are standard cameras like we have now, so you can always get the front door video, but the SiriCam in your bathroom never records any video at all.

I'm sure Apple has a plan here, and that we're not hearing all of it...if they really are going all in on security cams then there should be multiple versions, indoor and out, a doorbell, and so on. I think Apple has earned our trust on the privacy side, they do think about it more than other companies that want to use us for our metadata. We'll find out in two weeks what they are thinking, it sounds like it's going to be something different.