Again, then the Apple Watch doesn’t appear to be for you (Which perhaps you just don’t want to accept that given you own one). The features included are _not_ a bonus, it’s a watch that is meant to bring a variety of convenience tools and health monitoring in the technological era that we live in. Rather you choose to utilize those tools or not is your own prerogative, however; it’s exactly how Apple intended it to be.
My statement had nothing to do with what Apple thought was appropriate for a Watch, and everything to do with what I thought was appropriate for a Watch that would attract me to buy that particular Watch. I wanted a good-looking timepiece that adds a few convenience functions. I don't live my life around how much of it I can put on a cloud and reduce to metrics. You do, thats fine,
You’re misinformed. Apple Pay Doesn’t ‘parse’ anything. It’s a completely secure form of payment with data encryption standards through randomized code. Not everyone carries cash with them, we live in an era where I suspect the majority resort to using a debit/credit card for payments when in public places, Apple Pay is a completely secure network. If you choose to pay cash for your items, that’s your prerogative, you don’t have to use Apple Pay, even though I trust Apple Pay over using my debit card, due to which has a higher potential that _could_ be skimmed.
I carry cash, and the only time I use a debit card is at a branch ATM. I don't care what the majority does. I don't trust Apple with the data any more than I trust any other company or institution. It doesn't matter how encrypted it is, the data is there for their use, just like any other company. They may or may not do anything with the data now, but you have your head in the sand if you think Apple is some kind of benevolent company that will not find a use for that data in the future. Especially with Goldman Sachs running their new card operation for them.
Based on these five post(s) above, this goes well beyond the logic as you make it appear ‘I don’t like certain features on my Apple Watch’, when you appear to be the type of individual that believes the ‘world is out to get me’ from my perspective.
Ok, straw man argument, and nice framing to steer perception. Add that to the numbers arguments elsewhere in this post and you're building some ethical fallacies that would make Edward Bernays proud.
If I were you, I’d be far more concerned about all the other ways your information could be potentially abducted versus owning an Apple Watch with certain features that you choose not to use. There seems to be a lot of details that are not mutually exclusive from your concerns in your posts versus what an Apple Watch has the option of using.
You're just not getting it. I am not simply worried about any company or any possibility, but rather more worried about the fact that the information is out there in the first place, and much more worried that not only are companies making it so easy to give it up but that people just don't understand whats going to happen here. You seem to think that its just about what financial info someone can get from something, or perhaps identity theft. Its a lot more detailed, deeper, and darker than that.
When you use the word ‘companies’, I don’t think it’s necessary to group Apple into that specific category. Yes, there are ‘companies’ that do extract data, but I don’t believe Apple is one of those companies to the extreme of ‘They want to know every last detail about us’, especially when they value your privacy more than any other tech company in retrospect. If there was one company that I do trust my information with, it would be Apple. It’s good to be guarded and self aware, but I definitely believe you have very misguided logic when you’re saying ‘every last detail’.
Call it misguided if you want, but I'm still waiting to see
any logic out of you.
Apple is part of "these companies", because they have access to our data, and they set their new gear up to vacuum up as much of that data as possible right out of the box. Its opt-out now, instead of the opt-in of just 5-6 years ago. Try and start up a new iPhone without having the iCloud account vacuum everything out of a restored backup. Turn off all the iCloud permissions, sign out and back in, and most all those permissions are back on. Why? Wait - don't answer that. I really don't want to deal with any more of your diversions and non sequiturs.
The Apple Watch is a good experience for what it offers, I find the fitness features and the health monitoring to be mature and dynamic. But since you’re visiting an Apple Watch forum, I also gather almost 99% the users are here are ‘happy’ with Apple Watch, not just me.
Numbers again. If we were in a group having this discussion right now, in person, you'd be looking at everyone around you while you say this, with a smirk on your face, and nodding with everyone to generate agreement. Your posts make me feel like I'm dealing with an 8th grader.
This is completely unnecessary. You’re involved in a discussion, you replied to my post, you telling me ‘not to respond any further here’ is inappropriate and really would be the complete opposite of why you’re participating in your own thread if you’re telling others not to respond.
Thats laughable. I simply wanted to know what people would delete from their Watch if they could do so. Similar threads have gone on in various forms for years here, for things like the MacOS and iOS. People have talked about that as far back as Windows95, actually. While some people might say "just ignore the unwanted stuff and move on" I don't ever recall reading a post where someone came in and said "maybe you shouldn't have bought it". I don't recall anyone ever trying to make it about the poster's world view or outlook. I didn't make the post to get personally attacked or belittled. So I wanted you to know that I was fine with how you deal with your own tech (I'm not here to try to change your mind - take a note from that, you'll have a happier life), I'm aware of how you use your gear and that you're ok with more compromises in your privacy than I am with mine, so move on. Please.
Nope. I was projecting, but not overly. Irrationally is not the word that would be appropriate in your situation, pedantically easily describes your thought process on the Apple Watch and how you believe your information could be potentially hijacked:
Here is a more literal example:
{‘Sill’ is pedantically worried using certain features on the Apple Watch will allow their information to be potentially hacked/stolen/abducted/infiltrated due to companies that want to ‘know every last detail about them’.}
I think, again, that you're not applying the word correctly. A pedant is a person overly obsessed with the details in any given event or process. I'm not overly concerned with the details. I just care about the end result. Maybe you just saw the word "detail" in your sentence and figured "hey, 'pedantically' would work here".
Put your "Word of the Day" calendar aside.
