Well phone cams can not be always on or always listening since that would drain the battery extremly fast and the stuff would seem broken and people would return it or let it repair so no company would let the cam or microphone run 24/7 not even in standby letting it listen for keywords even that would require too much power. same goes for notebooks but the xbox has a steady powerline kinect is infact listening and has a great view on your living room unlike phones.
So I can understand that people dont like the idea of the kinect and it is infact a problem for a lot of persons irrational or not the problem is you can not be 100% sure the world works like you think. Unless you can see it for yourself all thats left is to hope that nobody actually gives a shit. Which I infact believe (but dont know for sure) so Kinect wouldnt bother me at all except for the fact that I have to pay for it eventhough I dont care about any of its functionalities atm.







