[Apofis]

Why hell would it need this? I would really like to know as well. Was seriously about to place an order for a Pro but this leaves me wondering...

[digi_owl]

Just speculating here, but it could be similar to how Google such do voice controls. Meaning that there is some processing that needs to take place that is offloaded to some server cluster somewhere, rather than attempting to do it locally.

[monochromatic]

This is the impression I got from watching a video linked elsewhere in these comments.