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sfolax said:

Stopped reading at the first sentence, factually wrong as can always expect from a DED piece.
The data was not obtained without permission
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/18/facebook_confirms_cambridge_analytica_stole_its_data_its_a_plot_claims_former_director/

“Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,” the statement reads.

The kicker’s in the last bit of that. Unless users had their Facebook privacy settings locked down the app slurped not only the 270,000 consenting users but all their friends as well - over 50 million people according to Christopher Wylie, a former researcher director at CA, who had a copy of the data set.

Facebook is peeved that the data was collected under an academic license and then sold commercially.

If they had a commercial license, nothing would have been said about this.

Lastly, why don't you care about this as well - https://www.rt.com/usa/421808-obama-facebook-mine-data/

Thank you for the "what-about-ism" directly from Russian state news.  If you would have written that first you could have saved me a little time.

“While Pedometer++ users are only a small subsampling of Apple Watch owners, the analytics provides general insight into owner preference. “

  Nope. The insight is only into people who think they need a pedometer app to count steps on a watch that already counts steps. So, maybe representative of “low information” users, which might bias the results in the direction of older models. 

Only the vipers without this whiz-bang automation will be impervious to the next Cylon attack. 

This long, rambling article turns out to be just another rationalization for headphone jack removal?  Thanks for wasting my time promoting an excuse (reliability) that even Apple didn’t use (they mentioned it was a dinosaur, space, and waterproofing) in a debate that ended a year ago. It seems DED also thinks the bending problem is still debatable even with the hindsight that Apple strengthened the case for the 6s.  

A lot of what Daniel writes about the marketplace, tech journalism, and paid studies seem right on the money, but his inability to see any flaws in Apple whatsoever destroys his credibility. 

Overall, pretty good article. I was not aware that Android Wear was dead.  The only thing that seemed disingenuous was this remark about iPads not supporting Flash:

“...all of which sounded virtually identical to the themes in this year's launch of HomePod”

Not supporting Spotify is not the same thing. There is no battery life, performance, or security risk to support a third party streaming product.  

Also, iPad is great, but why can’t I have a calculator again??