Apple’s new watches listen, summarise and chime while they do it
THE SO WHAT
Always-on audio plus Live Rewind moves the watch from fitness tracker to ambient memory device—your wrist is now a rolling 15‑second buffer of your life. If you build consumer or workplace apps, assume continuous capture is coming and get ahead of consent, retention, and “who can replay this” policies.
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