Why don’t you lose the Washingtons and get a couple Grants? That should free up some room.Ok ok.. I removed a few of the bills and it isn't so bad. Just wish the AirTags were flat and not rounded. I do use Apple Pay everywhere but you never know when you need a few bills.
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Yeah, but law enforcement cannot track someone else without a warrant and probable cause to do so whereas a private company can with direct consent. I don’t want my iPhone being used for anything with these at all, so I’m hoping that I can turn off everything and have it truly be turned off. We really need a more robust restatement of our constitutional rights (especially 4A) in light of technology. Tracker technology should concern everyone, and the false narrative of “trustworthy vs. not trustworthy” will eventually lead us far astray because it is nothing close to a black and white issue. Trust should be on a per-issue basis, not a per-company basis. Companies change roles, leadership, and values over time, and iPhone is so entrenched as a product and exists within a monopoly market between Android. Even not having a phone at this point subjects someone to surveillance, so “don’t use it” isn’t even a viable option. And what, if they start to do super Draconian things, we have to keep a phone for 10 years that doesn’t implement the feature? Where’s the point of pushback?
Indeed tracking is pervasive and there are much cheaper and smaller tracking devices on the market already, and it’s pervasive. A 3G SIM can be tossed into just about anything with a negligible data plan and achieve geolocating coordinates. I’m mostly concerned with if they’re just straight up lying. I listened to Rudy Giuliani tonight say how the DOJ just pulled all of his documents off of iCloud while representing Trump (which is privileged information and blatantly unconstitutional/illegal). And I’m getting smug “Lol” replies on here when I mention that any evidence possessed is evidence able to be subpoenaed. We should all care when surveillance is used inappropriately instead of buying into political garbage. Because it’s numbing us to privacy/constitutional rights violations.
I suppose Apple could use the reporting device’s location and the relative distance of the AirTag to geolocate and then null out the data. It would be nice if they’d expose more of the implementation details, but I suppose it’s enough for them to just make the claim and then be sued for invasion of privacy if it turns out to be false. Yeah, without any collateral on the line, I don’t believe a word any corporation says. It’s actually stupid to since they can and do freely omit and mislead constantly. I watched it happen in front of my eyes with things I’ve worked on myself!
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Trust is not a black and white issue except where Rudy and law enforcement is concerned
Got notified from Costco that the Airtags have shipped via UPS and estimated to arrive next week, Tues/Wed.
Now to download and install iOS 14.5 from 14.0. Hopefully, the new iOS update doesn't harm 8 Plus' the battery life or anything else as it's ~1 year old.
Now to download and install iOS 14.5 from 14.0. Hopefully, the new iOS update doesn't harm 8 Plus' the battery life or anything else as it's ~1 year old.
Toxic? The whole world is litter with coke bottle caps. It’s not like people are throwing away these trackers. You make zero sense.
Before: Function first, form second, and profits will follow.
After 2013: Maximize profits, form first, function shall follow while we continue to ride on our “it just works” coattails that brought us to the dance and made us the homecoming queen from around 2002-2013.
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That is for sure…but at a cost not tracked on Apple’s balance sheet….the hidden cost of slowly-growing frustration level for many customers growing tired of what feels like having to stomach more trade-offs now than before for staying in the Apple ecosystem…bad keyboards for the sake of thinness, heavy-handed port-embargoes, controversial implementation of things like the Touch Bar and arrow key layout with seemingly a blind eye for the functional loss by many when discrete function keys and inverted-T arrow keys were abandoned, mobile/desktop operating system interfaces that continue to favor a light, airy, monochromatic, minimalist aesthetic but often at the expense of clear intuitiveness...
One definite example is my veering towards making my apple products last as long as possible since 2014, compared to my behavior during, say, 2005-2013 when I would be strongly lured into the Apple Store and could convince myself to upgrade/replace when I “wanted to,” well before I “needed to.”
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I think that’s just normal expectations with the consumers Apple focuses on shifting over time, though. Those buying systems in 2015-2023 are where Apple’s focused now(and most of these are buying iPads). And I wouldn’t be surprised if, for those folks, some system in 2024 will be the last one many of them buy in a long time. Because, Apple will THEN be focused on the things that folks buying their first systems in 2025 will want.