davgreg

eightzero said:

Pretty sure private employers would like this data. 

My employer, a hospital, has a strict policy of "On Stage and Off Stage" for all employees.

We are not to be using personal devices- even on break- if we are where the public can see us. All internet capable devices are monitored with a system called Fair Warning that is capable of tracking not only pages visited, but cursor movement. They do operate a public wireless network for visitors and employees and that is monitored at a certain level.

We also have cameras most everywhere.

They do not pay you to shop on eBay or talk to your imaginary friends on Facebook

Businesses are funny that way- they expect you to work when they are paying you to work.

On the software side iOS 12 is still a battery eater on both my iPad Pro and iPhone 7 and Mojave is on my MacBook Pro as well. This seems to be a norm on newer Apple IS releases that gets fixed over time.

As to the Trucks vs Cars quote of Steve Jobs, I think he was referring more to the iPad than the Jesus Phone. iOS is still not ready for any kind of decent workflow I want or need on any device and the phone- any phone- is just too small.

The Hip-Hop audio they stream is more offensive than anything on HBO, Showtime or Netflix.

Apple should get out of- and stay out of- content.

Having a physical copy of the file does not mean you can play them. Apple has DRM embedded in its supposedly DRM free audio files and I have seen files purchased from iTunes become unplayable on any Apple device despite having purchased them long ago- or they were iTunes Match files downloaded from content I own.

I have spent way too much time with Apple help over a number of these files and ended up purchasing them a second time just to be done with it and I doubt this is unique to me.

Amazon has had this issue where purchased books disappeared from Kindles after the company had rights disputes with publishers.

To be truthful, the only way to be sure you have audio files you cannot have revoked is to buy physical CDs and not rely in any way on anything from an Apple server. I have mostly stopped buying iTunes tracks and buy physical CDs from Amazon to rip for my own use in ALAC (formerly Apple Lossless) or buy them DRM free from HD Tracks and others.

Tim wants to rent you everything- just like Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft.

badmonk said:

Crap, I am so pissed off.  They already have access to our Twitter, FB, Google, iCloud data and access to location data.  What more do they want???

They also have hacked SIM cards and commonly use Stingrays to suck up data without a warrant on whole geographic areas. 

What the law enforcement and intelligence agencies want is a 1984 tele screen in your pocket with a back door so they can let you self incriminate yourself 24/7/365.
The other risk is that with a back door,  crap could be planted on your devices if they ever need a reason to discredit you.

There is no way this ends well.