As I said earlier, I don't believe that any senior management at Apple knew about or approved this. It's just not the sort of thing that fits with all the other things they do. It has the same "feel" to it as the Google WiFi problem - something done at lower level and, in Google's case, an oversight.
I think that the same is likely here also. As John Gruber put it - it's a bug. It's only supposed to keep the last location or two - not the whole list.
You've got to be kidding! Let me get this straight: you're bending over backwards to explain away a gross, and clearly intentional violation of millions of user's civil rights as a "bug" and you want the rest of us to take you seriously?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people just immediately jump to nasty conclusions based on no evidence at all.
Apple has probably one of the most stellar records on privacy in the industry. Yet these same weenies will defend Google to the death when there are multiple, grievous, instances of Google intentionally doing exactly the kind of nefarious things that they are taking Apple to task for. The kind of things Apple has actually never done.
It shows you what's really happening here. It's just plain old irrational hatred of a market leader simply because they are successful. If any of these posters are above the age of 12 or so, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
You sir are a true lemming!
Keep an eye on your inbox....
We could use your talents in our upcoming march~
Until then, keep your head in the sand and your eye on the internet!!!
In the greater scheme of things, this so-called tracking issue really doesn't matter. Apple made a big boo-boo and that iOS4 bug will be fixed in the next iOS update. Even Steve Jobs himself has chimed in to basically say so:
But for anyone who really knows Apple and Jobs, you already knew this to be so. Again, it's a non-issue. The media is just hyping it up because they get more money from sensationalism. And the people most worried about it are typically people who do things they shouldn't while toting around their iOS devices and therefore stand the most to lose when someone sheds light on their past! And even for those who aren't so naughty, accidentally exposing this data to thieves who stole your iPhone wasn't a risk UNTIL those two geeks brought it into the public eye. And considering one of those geeks self-admittedly worked at Apple for 5 years, why didn't they just quietly report it to Apple to see that it got fixed? Could "shameless self-promotion" have been at heart here? Answer: absolutely. They are exploiting a previously hidden software flaw for personal gain. (Which, for those of you who have low moral standards and therefore may not know, is actually something "bad" not "good.")
Now for Android lovers this kind issue may be of some concern. For does anyone honestly think that "search giant" Google is not in the business of "search"? Tracking is Google's middle name. (The two "oo" characters in the company's name are actually little eyes watching you.) But for Apple, it is very uncharacteristic and therefore until more information from Apple comes out, we shouldn't get all bent out of shape over it.
No, if there is any major problem here it's AppleInsider's continued apathy toward proper English spelling. I mean really, "udpate"? It's bad enough when you AppleInsider writers make spelling mistakes INSIDE its articles. But now AppleInsider is making them in the article titles?! Absolutely shocking and unbelievable, especially when spelling checkers are so prevalent these days. Sometimes I wonder if AppleInsider authors are doing this deliberately to punish readers for some reason unknown. A mistake "now and then" is forgivable. But with AppleInsider, these mistakes are perpetual. Brush up on your English language skills -- PLEASE!
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Time for folks to do a reality check.
As I said earlier, I don't believe that any senior management at Apple knew about or approved this. It's just not the sort of thing that fits with all the other things they do. It has the same "feel" to it as the Google WiFi problem - something done at lower level and, in Google's case, an oversight.
I think that the same is likely here also. As John Gruber put it - it's a bug. It's only supposed to keep the last location or two - not the whole list.
You've got to be kidding! Let me get this straight: you're bending over backwards to explain away a gross, and clearly intentional violation of millions of user's civil rights as a "bug" and you want the rest of us to take you seriously?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people just immediately jump to nasty conclusions based on no evidence at all.
Apple has probably one of the most stellar records on privacy in the industry. Yet these same weenies will defend Google to the death when there are multiple, grievous, instances of Google intentionally doing exactly the kind of nefarious things that they are taking Apple to task for. The kind of things Apple has actually never done.
It shows you what's really happening here. It's just plain old irrational hatred of a market leader simply because they are successful. If any of these posters are above the age of 12 or so, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
You sir are a true lemming!
Keep an eye on your inbox....
We could use your talents in our upcoming march~
Until then, keep your head in the sand and your eye on the internet!!!
http://www.cultofmac.com/steve-jobs-...acks-you/91995
But for anyone who really knows Apple and Jobs, you already knew this to be so. Again, it's a non-issue. The media is just hyping it up because they get more money from sensationalism. And the people most worried about it are typically people who do things they shouldn't while toting around their iOS devices and therefore stand the most to lose when someone sheds light on their past! And even for those who aren't so naughty, accidentally exposing this data to thieves who stole your iPhone wasn't a risk UNTIL those two geeks brought it into the public eye. And considering one of those geeks self-admittedly worked at Apple for 5 years, why didn't they just quietly report it to Apple to see that it got fixed? Could "shameless self-promotion" have been at heart here? Answer: absolutely. They are exploiting a previously hidden software flaw for personal gain. (Which, for those of you who have low moral standards and therefore may not know, is actually something "bad" not "good.")
Now for Android lovers this kind issue may be of some concern. For does anyone honestly think that "search giant" Google is not in the business of "search"? Tracking is Google's middle name. (The two "oo" characters in the company's name are actually little eyes watching you.) But for Apple, it is very uncharacteristic and therefore until more information from Apple comes out, we shouldn't get all bent out of shape over it.
No, if there is any major problem here it's AppleInsider's continued apathy toward proper English spelling. I mean really, "udpate"? It's bad enough when you AppleInsider writers make spelling mistakes INSIDE its articles. But now AppleInsider is making them in the article titles?! Absolutely shocking and unbelievable, especially when spelling checkers are so prevalent these days. Sometimes I wonder if AppleInsider authors are doing this deliberately to punish readers for some reason unknown. A mistake "now and then" is forgivable. But with AppleInsider, these mistakes are perpetual. Brush up on your English language skills -- PLEASE!