CheeseFreeze

Aren’t we all overthinking things? It’s quite a stretch to correlate Apple’s dark and light mode to late 80s operating systems.

Shit ‘music’ for a generation out of touch with music as an art form.

No reason to use FaceTime if other systems support screensharing and multi-platform support. 

That said, I do think Google maps is actually pretty good. I'm not super concerned about the tracking aspects, but I can't ignore it either.  Still, I'm inclined to stick with Apple maps due to the level of integration across all my devices, which seems to keep getting better, and I prefer to support Apple in this regard.

There’s a lot of anti Google sentiment on data collection on this forum, often rightfully so, but sometimes just sentiment. Not saying you are the latter btw.

Google may have your data but it’s actually how they store it what matters. For example your tracked info is only very temporarily stored, but most likely not at all. What is stored is your aggregated data, aka indexed data that cannot be traced back to you. If you have to take another route than suggested by Google because the road is closed down for example, and Google doesn’t have a manual report from the roadworks peeps, Google will store a ‘weight’ of all vehicles moving around the obstacle in their system which then is used to suggest an alternative route as the accumulative weight is too high. As the roadblock gets cleared this weight will go down until it is considered an obstacle no more.

A database query with individual user routes would be way, way to ineffective anyway, however an indexed ‘weight’ is not. So in the end Google does not care about your tracking, it cares about what it does on a macro level. And yes, also to check how many go to the Starbucks on Coffeelane for advertisement purposes, but again this is aggregated date that doesn’t lead to ‘you’.

That said, Google should be more transparent about the way they use data - in human readable text and not legal blah blah.

Also what many people don’t understand is that Apple’s stance on privacy is a PR and marketing trick. Brand perception. They want to be seen as the ecosystem that cares about your data more than the ‘other brand’. It’s driven by commercial gain, just as Google does but from another angle.

Apple’s stance is a tad naive though. Their services are performing measurably worse (think Siri) compared to Google because they can’t improve their services through machine learning and aggregated data server-side, not having the ability to properly scale as that data needs to be ‘indexed’ on the individual user devices instead. They could send your user tracking data to their servers by stripping it from anything that leads to ‘you’, and then index it while destroying that incoming data. Not doing that makes no sense to me. User data collection is needed to improve the product. It’s about what’s done with the data to protect you that matters. Google has to adhere to laws and standards just like Apple.

ttollerton said:

Would someone please explain to me the deal with “Quick View?”  Why is Apple obsessed with trying to do things in a file without actually “opening” it?  Is it really that hard to doubleclick on a file, do your edits, and close it?  

Im asking genuinely.  Apple makes such a big deal out of it and it doesn’t really look like it saves any effort to me.  

Batch editing. It’s a generic action on one or multiple files as opposed to opening the file in an app. It makes more sense the ‘new way’. Actually, ‘preview’ as an app doesn’t make sense at all - these belong integrated in the finder. Non-generic apps are for specialized actions, like composing music.