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There is never going to come a day when any of these companies give you more control over your devices. Why would they? Thats their entire competitive advantage.


The Pixel 4 does speech to text on device. They do it because it's faster.

Once it becomes a solved problem, there will be better open source devices and more competition. On device will be a checkbox feature.

Not every company makes you the product.


>Not every company makes you the product.

yeah, but since that has been a workable angle we'd had an explosion of companies that do make you the product.

I wouldn't assume the inverse over time related to a reduction in effort from better devices and competition; i'd assume further growth.




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