If Apple truly care about their customers, they would have allowed us to set Google Maps as the default map application. Especially in countries outside of the US where Apple Maps does not even have accurate building numbers.
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Let me guess... "Apple is doomed" right?
SMH. When are people going to learn. Remember these dandies?
- "iPhone is going to be a failure."
- "Japan already has better phones than this"
- "The price of the <insert product here> is too high"
- "No physical keyboard on the iPhone? No way this survives"
- "They took out the CD/DVD drive. Terrible idea"
- "Only USB ports on the iMac? Terrible idea"
- "USB-C only? Terrible idea"
- "Physical Apple Stores will never work"
Is Apple perfect? No. They have made plenty of mistakes, and they can afford to. It's what $250 billion of cash in the bank allows you to do. But the "it will all go down the pooper" arguments keep coming year after year and Apple proves time and again that they know the secret recipe to their success, and will keep on dishing it out, whether you like it or not and whether you agree or not.
What they claim is not always what they do.
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28...sage-contacts-and-may-share-them-with-police/
You're conflating two different things--Google's intentional collection of all of your data forever, such as everywhere you go!, without anyway around the collection in a massive dossier versus Apple's 30 day retention of some meta data to ensure iMessage works as intended with a simple way around it. Apple is far from a perfect company, but no serious person equates the threat to your privacy and the security of your information if you use Apple's platforms with Google's platforms. Apple has a corporate ethos about protecting customer's privacy, in contrast to Google and Facebook, (Zuckerberg has infamously proclaimed that privacy was no longer a social norm). Google's insatiable quest to know every intimate aspect of each individual's life is intrinsic as they would go out of business overnight if they stopped selling access to people--over 90% of their revenue comes from selling what they know about you to advertisers.
For a sober review of the iMessage issue:
https://www.imore.com/imessage-metadata-and-law-enforcement-what-you-need-know
What I am concerned over is the "WTH?" moments when material I have deleted suddenly "re-appears" on my device or another device linked to my Apple accounts. This tells me that this information is being stored somewhere which implies the someone is doing something with it.
With Google, I know what is being done or intended. Apple ... I am in the dark.
Mystery solved. Well, of course, if you have linked your devices via iCloud, Apple ID, etc., and that's always your choice with Apple, applications, documents, etc., are available to all the devices you've linked. It's easy to go into those applications and delink any devices.
Secondly, it's great that you state you have researched it and are aware of what Google is doing. Most people are stunned to learn that every email sent or received is scanned and retained forever. That when you use Google photos you give Google and it's successor companies a perpetual worldwide license to use them. That everywhere you drive, every search you make, every website you visit, everything you say to Assistant, every document you upload, etc., etc., is linked and retained forever by Google via a universal identifier. That while Google doesn't currently sell that information, only access to it, there is nothing to prevent Google from selling it or transferring it to another company in the future; they only promise you will get a new privacy policy. Finally, most people don't bother to think about the consequences of Google, Facebook, etc., assembling every possible detail of you and your family's life and owning it for whatever purpose they decide to use it for, along with the consequences of law enforcement, despotic governments, hackers, criminals and intel agencies having access to that file.
For Google, it isn't quite as expansive as you make it but you have the right framework. I do find a lot of it personally beneficial. Google behavior is executing as expected.
For Apple, I use basic iCloud for Notes. That's it. Yet some contacts, photos, iMessage, etc. ... all old and supposedly deleted, keep randomly showing up on my devices. Apple behavior is not executing as expected. Wish I knew why. Apple has no answer they are willing to provide.
As for linking; example: I have my contacts on my iPhone set to pull from Work and Gmail. I have the contact on my iPad set to pull from a different email account. I used to have a @me account. I do not pull or save contact to my iCloud account. Yet, old contacts from my @me account will ad hoc show up in my contacts. This happens on both devices. I have the same issue - tried iCloud and photos ... ouch. Still, occasionally I will have photos "come back" even after that feature has been emptied and turned off. Not earthshaking, just annoying.
It sounds as though you have educated yourself about the tradeoffs. For example, as long as you are comfortable with Google scanning all the emails you send and receive and keeping that info, you are at least aware of the tradeoff you are making, which most people are stunned to find out is occurring.
I have a DJI Phantom 3 that I play around with, but that's it. I subscribe to /r/multicopter and enjoy watching the vids and mods posted there.Yup. You fly?
Nice. I have a Mavic Pro. They are such amazing pieces of technology when flown by the book. I check out /r/multicopter, and /r/drones. Lots of great videos. Hopefully I'll get there some day. Lots of experience working with RAW files, but a complete noob with video.
Is this a joke? The Atlanta airport is one of the nicest and easiest to navigate airports that I have ever been in. In fact, I was just saying to someone recently that it is my favorite of all the airports I have travelled to/through. I can not imagine how you could find it confusing.
It already does this. I think someone else pointed out that if you have Bluetooth in your car, the phone remembers where you parked without you doing anything. However, if you do not have Bluetooth, you can tap the i (info) button in Apple Maps and then tap Mark My Location and save it.
So you're not going to test it to see if it has improved? That makes sense...
I agree, granted I'm a local. Other than international terminal... the domestic is a freaking straight line with alphabetized T branchings and a train to speed between them.