22july2013

Foster also designed the McLaren HQ building in England, which looks a lot like the Apple campus. Search for it on Google Maps. And I still think Apple should buy out McLaren completely, which is the equivalent of Apple in the car manufacturing business. Back when I first started pushing this idea on these forums, McLaren's market cap was around $2B, (less than what Apple paid for Beats) but now it's $4B. Pocket change for Apple.

If Apple does buy McLaren, McLaren should build a new car to fully implement Apple's CarPlay ideas and values, and the car should be called the "McLaren Macintosh." It rolls off the tongue.

I would never use a product (like Grammarly) that requires sending my text to a remote site, possibly even in another country, and let the people who work there or the company itself take advantage of the information in my text to profile me or sell me products based on my words (how safe are my credit card numbers if they appear in the text?)

Apple's solution is approximately 100% secure, (I would even say Apple's "Private Cloud Compute" is 100% secure) since Apple cannot gain access to your data even with a government warrant. Until proven otherwise, I will assume Grammarly is 0% secure. There is no comparison between these two products. There shouldn't even be an article written comparing the functionality of these two products because they work on entirely different privacy premises. It's somewhat like comparing the quality of a disposable camera with a permanent camera - what's the usefulness in that? They are completely different products. In this case, one product is for people who care about privacy, and the other product is for people who don't.

I have seen 100 ads for Grammarly this year, and not a single one touted any respect for my privacy.

avon b7 said:

22july2013 said:

The only thing that would make me consider buying a ring is whether it allows my devices to track me in my own house and automatically turn lights on and off as I move through the house. Right now I'm doing that with motion sensors, but it's messy, complex and inaccurate. If Apple can improve on this with a ring, preferably including people who visit my house with their own ring, then I would consider buying it.

That should be coming with network sensing in 6G and should be able to 'identify' people volumetrically. 

I googled it. You taught me something. But 6G doesn't go through walls, and I don't want to buy a 6G sensor for every room in my house, so I'll take an Apple Ring, assuming it uses a wireless signal that can detect where I am anywhere in my house.

The EU should get familiar with this story.

jagrahax said:

This is also affecting Mac Safari users

Like me.