And right after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219 huh

I mean to be expected of Google. Even their Google Pay sends data to their servers whenever you use it to make payments, effectively also making it so you can't even use it without service. Apple Pay does not, runs the whole thing on-device, and not only is private, but as a result also enables payments entirely offline.

They're probably doing some degenerate form of [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_computing

As soon as "don't be evil" became a topic for debate it was over, if you're surprised you haven't been paying attention.

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Al or AI?