@wordshaper @simon @zacchiro Glad we generally agree there. Though in general, I do think phones today *are* dystopian surveilance machines, whether or not they use the microphone for it. I would still like to see phone OS directions that don't resemble the user freedom nightmare that users have become accustomed to.
The particular reason I pushed back on the "technical feasibility" part of your post though: it could also mis-teach readers that the NSA, domestic spy apps, etc aren't spying