That’s not really how encryption works. If their chat bot can read/parse the message, then it has the keys, which means meta would have the keys. This doesn’t mean they absolutely are reading your messages, but it does seem to mean it would be possible.

Read all of the comments here, there are many stating why this would drive costs way up.

Not sure why you think this, it’s generally trivial to add non-volatile storage to microcontrollers, and much more complicated to add external RAM.

I bought a full size a few years ago but returned it cause I didn’t think it was worth the price. I got a mini as a gift last year and it works great. Even has built in temperature and humidity sensors

I’m not really a smart speaker kind of guy but HomePods are nice, sound quality is pretty good

Because i think cleaning up an iPhone is easy?

Kinda sounds like you just don’t know how to use an iPhone.

I feel they could easily ban VPN companies (maybe?), which is what 99.9% of people that want to browse from a different location use.

This won’t affect companies at all as they would be using their own VPN.

$300 today is quite a bit more valuable than $30 for 10 years.