Same thing. A previous appointment at the same time. The date is suggested because they selected June 16th so it's just a suggested time from previous calendar entries. I use this feature all the time on my phone.
When you go to input an appointment in Apple's Calendar app you can do it one of a few ways:
1) From another app, which obviously this author didn't do
2) Tapping the "+" icon on the top corner with a date in the calendar below highlighted. The New Event screen comes up with the highlighted date automatically filled in the Starts and Ends fields. This seems the most likely method if they were manually entering an appointment.
The point is, there is not enough detail to suggest that Apple listens to phone calls when there are other more plausible methods (and certainly more testable) that Siri could have used to obtain the information.
If true, the next question is, does the data Siri learns this way stay on your phone? Nobody worries that the linux 'history' command is spying on their terminal. But if there's "telemetry" involved...
> which better alternative? It's not like there really is one
The "no alternative" argument is never a good one. We call it "Bad Faith"
in philosophy.
There is always an alternative.
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre put it roughly as:
Even when you are on your knees with a gun to head, you still have a
choice. You can choose to die.
Few people today have the courage to embrace such a tough philosophy,
but not understanding at least the principle subtracts so much from
your life. Total inauthenticity means living as a shadow, "pretending
to be yourself" (some pale "acceptable" version of yourself).
This article is better than the dry Wikipedia one in my opinion [1].
