Yet, my wife’s Siri can always find the nearest whatever
You can choose to let your phone use your location for requests. Her questions to Siri are not associated with her Apple ID but are instead linked to a separate anonymous Siri ID, which allows a degree of context without creating any records linked to an identifiable person.
and suggest stuff based on my wife’s “preferences”.
Suggestions for random stuff on your phone (Do you want directions to work? Do you want to listen to this playlist that you listen to every freaking day?) are generated locally on the phone. Apple the company never sees that sort of stuff.
Strange that those posts with seemingly absolutely sure facts are always coming from accounts that have had at least two other discussions about how great apple is in the last 24 hours. Why do only the devoted fans know for absolutely certain that there are shadowy IDs generated and never cross-linked with any other identifier and that apple never ever ever ever ever gets metadata from the stuff that is “generated on the phone locally”. Google generates tons of stuff on their tensor chips locally. Does anybody really believe them when they say that they don’t know anything about the stuff the Phone generates? I don’t. So why would I believe Apple?
Strange that those posts with seemingly absolutely sure facts are always coming from accounts that have had at least two other discussions about how great apple is in the last 24 hours. Why do only the devoted fans know for absolutely certain that there are shadowy IDs generated and never cross-linked with any other identifier and that apple never ever ever ever ever gets metadata from the stuff that is “generated on the phone locally”. Google generates tons of stuff on their tensor chips locally. Does anybody really believe them when they say that they don’t know anything about the stuff the Phone generates? I don’t. So why would I believe Apple?