It’s been a good 24 hours for defaults. Motion smoothing might stop being the default on TVs. Fitbit has a real shot at making the de-facto default smartwatch for Android users, who desperately need one. And the best default of all: the default opt-out on Siri recordings.
A key part of this story is that Apple straight-up apologized. That apology is totally warranted, and I’d like to briefly explain why.