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  • Apple growing its own ad business as privacy changes limit rivals

    elijahgelijahg
    CloudTalkin said: I don't think you read it carefully enough. Apple's definition of "track" is precisely worded: Apple’s advertising platform does not track you, meaning that it does not link user or device data collected from our apps with user or device data collected from third parties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes, and does not share user or device data with data brokers.  Apple's definition of tracked only means what's bolded.  It does not mean they don't track.
    What you bolded is what 3rd parties are complaining about not being able to do anymore without user consent, so obviously even if you personally want to label what Apple still allows as "tracking" that doesn't change the fact that it's inherently different from what 3rd parties preferred for "tracking". 
    Kinda moving that goal post aren't you?  You claimed, according to the support doc, Apple doesn't track.  I claimed, according to the same support doc, Apple indeed does track.  Now you're going to argue "that doesn't change the fact that it's inherently different..."  Okay, when was that ever a point of contention?   Apple tracks.  Pretty much always have tracked.  Moreover, they tell you they track.  App Tracking Transparency is about 3rd party tracking.  This topic and the subject of the article, is about 1st party tracking which Apple doesn't prohibit.  Which is also what Apple will be reported taking advantage of with this new rumored ad scheme. 

    I'm not sure of your end game here.  Are you actually disagreeing with my assessment of what that document says? 


    Your assessment is correct IMO. He's trying to claim Apple's better than third parties because it "doesn't track" when it in fact does, just with a different name. In Apple's privacy T&C's they state "Apple may share personal data with service providers who act on our behalf, our partners, or others at your direction. Further, Apple does not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes." and "Others: Apple may share personal data with others at your direction or with your consent, such as when we share information with your carrier to activate your account. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate. We may also disclose information about you where there is a lawful basis for doing so, if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or to protect our operations or users, or in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale."

    So in other words Apple can share your personal data to "others" when they decide it is "reasonably necessary" to enforce their vast and onerous terms and conditions. This shows how carefully worded the advertising and privacy support page is, in that it says they "    do not share user or device data with data brokers", and then elsewhere say they will share personal data when they feel like it, to whomever they want. Excluding only "data brokers" leaves an almost limitless number of companies they can share data with who aren't "data brokers".
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple debuts colorful 24-inch iMac with M1, upgraded camera and audio

    elijahgelijahg
    caddyman33 said:
    Who uses Ethernet ?  
    People who live in a city and can't get anything more than 20mbps over wireless due to interference.
    Pezadocno42MplsPtenthousandthingsfirelock

  • Apple debuts colorful 24-inch iMac with M1, upgraded camera and audio

    elijahgelijahg
    MacPro said:
    jcc said:
    sflocal said:
    I fail to understand the hate people have towards the iMac's "chin".  It really comes across as petty and that chin I think is what differentiates the iMac instead of making it look like some large, generic monitor.  Get over it people. 

    I actually glad there's some kind of chin there, especially with the new color options, it allows some of that color to come to the front of the unit as well.  Good job Apple.

    I do with the specs for the iMac were more beefy.  I used an M1-based MacBook and while I was absolutely floored by the performance, I expected Apple would give the desktop Macs with ASi chips made for desktop-class machines.  I just hope that whatever Apple has in store for the larger 27"+ iMac, it better include more RAM, and much higher spec ASi chips.
    A chin serves no purpose. It should be removed.
    It's where the computer actually resides.  
    They manage to have no chin on the iPad Pro, and the iMac is basically an iPad Pro. There’s nothing really in the chin except speakers on the intel iMacs, and from the pictures it looks similar on this one. 
    kkqd1337

  • Apple launches new Apple TV 4K with A12 Bionic CPU, redesigned Siri remote

    elijahgelijahg
    Detnator said:

    elijahg said:
    First impression is wow that's expensive. The remote seems better though, which was one of my main complaints. Also, no use having a CPU "as powerful as an Xbox One" when all the games are graphically about the same as the first gen Xbox or PS2, and all but a few are nowhere near as immersive.

    Hopefully this gives the game developers more to work in order to build decent games.  Maybe the processing just wasn't up to it before?  

    It could be that or it could be "Apple stuff just isn't for real games" syndrome.  The devs (perhaps incorrectly) think that so they don't build the decent games, thus self-fulfilling prophecy type thing?
    Actually part of it is Apple forces devs (with Apple Arcade at least) to target the iPhone 6S as a minimum spec. That presumably is rolling, so until the minimum requirement ends up at whatever phone has the AppleTV CPU in, in say 5 years time, nothing on AA will be making full use of the GPU. Not sure if that applies to other games on AppleTV too, but currently it's pretty stupid. Historically Apple has put a lot of barriers in the way for Mac gaming devs, which is where the "Apple stuff just isn't for real games" comes from.
    patchythepirate

  • Parallels Desktop 16.5 released with native Apple Silicon support

    elijahgelijahg
    Philtky said:
    I’m pretty sure I’m totally mixing everything, but since the PowerPC was also a RISC processor. Does it mean we could now virtualize old Mac OS 9 on ARM based Parallel?
    No, PPC is not the same instruction set as ARM, but the architectures are more similar than x86 is to ARM or ASi
    Philtky