Talk to Apple’s Siri in the past decade? Tens of millions of people stand to gain up to $20 per Siri-enabled device for potentially having their privacy violated. Appleagreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit saying that the company routinely recorded people’s conversations and disclosed it to advertisers after users unintentionally activated the assistant. Despite settling, Apple denied wrongdoing.
As Reuters pointed out, the entire settlement is equivalent to about nine hours of profit for Apple, which brought in nearly $94 billion in net income last year.
If you’ve already made plans for a Mother’s Day gift in advance of this Sunday, congratulations. But if alarm bells are suddenly ringing, consider this a gentle reminder that, like a sizable share of the US population this time of year often does, you can still scrape together some last-minute flowers for the woman who carried you for nine months.
Data from Google Trends reveals that searches for “same day flower delivery” spike in the US in May every year, when Mother’s Day takes place. As we noted last February, the same query also gains traction around Valentine’s Day.
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This year, however, it appears that searches for last-minute flowers have remained elevated in the last two months after the usual peak in February — with the search interest this April actually exceeding that seen around Cupid’s Day.
Honestly, we’re not sure why searches are spiking a little early. One explanation might be that Passover and Easter have overlapped at the start of April, and Americans wanted to celebrate with some flowers. Maybe it’s a host of Claude bots that are now running errands for AI-obsessed execs — or perhaps Americans are just impulse-buying some seasonal spring blooms after an unusually warm March, without a particular occasion.
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