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Apple's Find My Is 'Super Creepy Surveillance Tech' That Shouldn't Exist, Says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney
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What a dummy. That is the scenario you are going to shock people with?
Stolen property geolocated! Thief has lost their privacy! The outrage!
Stolen property geolocated! Thief has lost their privacy! The outrage!
And everyone wonders why Nintendo stuck with Friend codes... creepy Sweeney likes to watch the kiddies
"Find My" services were five years old when Tim Sweeney presented at WWDC ten years ago. Tracking your family's devices was mentioned in the keynote. Tim's been obsessive about Apple policy for a decade and he's only just learning this feature exists?
Considering this in the context of all we've heard from him in more recent years, I'm guessing he sees some advantage in being perceived as a person who leads with outrage rather than coherence, I suppose…?
Considering this in the context of all we've heard from him in more recent years, I'm guessing he sees some advantage in being perceived as a person who leads with outrage rather than coherence, I suppose…?
Everyone has preferences and opinions.
I believe that Fortnite should be tech that shouldn't exist.
I believe that Fortnite should be tech that shouldn't exist
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Sweeney is absolutely suffering from his hatred of Apple and finds ways to complain about success at every turn. Apple is not perfect, far from it, but it does do its best to promote privacy even when that means letting me find the dirtbag that stole my laptop. What an A**hat.
Sweeney is a weeny who hates Apple because he didn’t get his way. Dude needs to realize he’s in the smallest minority for his thoughts on tracking stolen devices.
A bro with more money than he knows what to do with. For most people a stolen laptop can be a financial burden especially a Mac. Real easy for a guy who can buy a new MacBook every week to act like theft is no big deal.
As someone who had his car raided, windows smashed out, and $3,000 in work and personal items stolen during a 40-minute gym session in a parking lot with patrolling security. This dude can seriously pound sand.
Before others argue this was during peak covid where you could enter the gym, but you couldn't bring any belongings inside other than your person. No, the gym didn't care and I was actually the fifth car raided that week. The patrolling security just said oh they know our patterns and smash and grab as soon as we pass by. The security was hired due to the fact things were in cars, but it was all typical security theatre.
Now some fun facts:
Can't claim anything that belongs to work. I lost security tokens as well so beyond the value it was an insane nightmare that negatively affected my job for weeks.
Police took an hour to show up and it was 35 degrees outside and I'm in shorts and a t-shirt. Gym folks didn't want to stay and said wait in my car (with no windows). Police pretty much said yeah it happens and nothing is ever recovered. Even if you have tracking they don't/won't act on it. Police officer even sympathized with the thief saying it was the holidays and money is tight for too many people.
Car insurance doesn't cover items stolen from cars. You have to claim to homeowners' insurance, and it will raise your rates the following year guaranteed.
Considering I had to pay my car deductible to get the car repaired combined with the impact to homeowners insurance and another higher deductible needing to be paid it was just a loss and move on situation. I just fixed the car and had a really terrible December that year.
If anything, Find My needs to be expanded and it's an automatic raid to the thief by local authorities.
As someone who had his car raided, windows smashed out, and $3,000 in work and personal items stolen during a 40-minute gym session in a parking lot with patrolling security. This dude can seriously pound sand.
Before others argue this was during peak covid where you could enter the gym, but you couldn't bring any belongings inside other than your person. No, the gym didn't care and I was actually the fifth car raided that week. The patrolling security just said oh they know our patterns and smash and grab as soon as we pass by. The security was hired due to the fact things were in cars, but it was all typical security theatre.
Now some fun facts:
Can't claim anything that belongs to work. I lost security tokens as well so beyond the value it was an insane nightmare that negatively affected my job for weeks.
Police took an hour to show up and it was 35 degrees outside and I'm in shorts and a t-shirt. Gym folks didn't want to stay and said wait in my car (with no windows). Police pretty much said yeah it happens and nothing is ever recovered. Even if you have tracking they don't/won't act on it. Police officer even sympathized with the thief saying it was the holidays and money is tight for too many people.
Car insurance doesn't cover items stolen from cars. You have to claim to homeowners' insurance, and it will raise your rates the following year guaranteed.
Considering I had to pay my car deductible to get the car repaired combined with the impact to homeowners insurance and another higher deductible needing to be paid it was just a loss and move on situation. I just fixed the car and had a really terrible December that year.
If anything, Find My needs to be expanded and it's an automatic raid to the thief by local authorities.
Tim, don’t leave compromising pictures of yourself on a laptop, in your car. Those pictures, just add to small feet, hands, and shallow voice. Confirmation.
The amount of information the EPIC Game Launcher scrapes off your PC and he thinks Apple is the creepy one? Not touching his or Valve’s platforms but man, projecting much?
