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iOS 6 to Bring Systemwide Facebook Integration
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You mean The New iOS?
Apple seems to be keeping software version number, just dropping hardware version numbers.
So I guess as a 41 year old married professional who owns/is president of his own company, uses Twitter and Facebook throughout my day for both business and personal reasons, and owns an XBox 360, I guess I should just give all that up and move back in with my parents, huh?
The extent to which some of you people are expending a lot of churlish effort to knock other MacRumors users down says a lot about your own insecurity. Some of my clients interact with me on the phone or in face-to-face meetings. Others use e-mail. Others Facebook, or even text messages. I could care less how they want to communicate with me. Same goes for the friends I have scattered all over the U.S. and world from when I was a kid all the way up through college and my career. If my mobile device integrates the single most popular social network on the planet into my efforts to stay in touch with people who are important to me and my clients, that's a net plus no matter how you want to spin it.
You don't like Facebook/Twitter/The color blue/anchovies on pizza? Awesome, good for you: You made a choice and I respect that. But making sure everyone knows about your choice, and how much better you think you are because of that choice, defines you as nothing but a slave to people's perceptions.
"Grow up" indeed.
I don't need to take time to learn privacy controls. By default my privacy should be private. Sadly, most of the time it is the other way around.
Thats a bit rich. He is probably a long time Mac user who see's things as tools. To get a job done.
Not the typical sheep who must have the next 'fad' from a glorified toy company.
Apple's customer base? The 80% of kids who couldn't string a paragraph together? That's a set of customers to be proud of.
Exactly, people are too stupid or blind to see the facts, you get a FREE service yet the company was valued at 100 BILLION dollars!! Which we all know soon plummeted, but rumours are that was so some scamming could happen and people get very rich of it....
But yes, with Facebook, your comments, what you like, what you do, your photos, your habits are ALL commodities it sells.
Christ, big employers hire companies to do profiles on your FB account irrespective of your security settings to screen you before they interview you.
That's why I have and will always state, Facebook would sell your very soul for profit if it could get it..
Just think about the family photos on their, the children, all property of Facebook now to use at it sees fit..
I think Apple is hitching themselves to a sinking anchor with this move. Facebook is on the decline.
It probably wasn't ready as the agreements with FB weren't in place.
Personally I don't care for widgets. I have an android device and hate it, I also have a WP 7 phone and like it. I love my iPhone 4S and new iPad. Why? Because of the lack of annoying widgets taking up valuable screen real estate. I like iOS 5.1.1 and find it a fairly mature OS.
I have a FB account but won't be entering my details into any baked in integration. I'd rather keep them separate. That's my preference, but I have no objection to the feature being available to those who want it.
For me the biggest area that needs updating is maps. Google maps quite frankly suck cartographically. Contour lines are missing (I know there is the terrain function, but then the roads are monochrome), as are public footpaths.
I'm hoping that maps will indeed see the big update that was touted.
You don't get it. It's still optional. You don't provide sign in details, the apps are disabled. There that wasn't so hard was it?
That seems a bit drastic, what if you want to use it, sometimes. Isn't a per app granularity a better fit?
Facebook Kill Switch
If there's one checkbox in system preferences enabling me to switch off all Facebook supporting code then I will sleep better. From a security standpoint I don't want my phone initiating any contact with Facebook servers.
On Mac OS X I disallow any facebook.com http requests via Little Snitch. Would like the same control on iOS.
If there's one checkbox in system preferences enabling me to switch off all Facebook supporting code then I will sleep better. From a security standpoint I don't want my phone initiating any contact with Facebook servers.
On Mac OS X I disallow any facebook.com http requests via Little Snitch. Would like the same control on iOS.
Remember when Apple included Twitter integration into iOS, forcing everyone who upgraded to get Twitter accounts?
Exactly I don't do Twitter but the integration in iOS doesn't get in my way so I see no reason why FB should either
There is a very suitable workaround. It's called safari. It's actually better than the facebook app! (IMHO)
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Just don't give iOS any facebook account details and it can't sign into Facebook. easy!
No, third parties can't read your mind and know what info you expect to be private. Especially if it's information that you volunteer to them
Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like your beef is with internet privacy in general, not FB specifically
If not, explain why creating a FB account is a black/white vulnerability mistake, and creating a user account on this message board isn't
Yes as long as you only interact with Facebook directly, not through integration in other apps, or used for authentication in places other than FB.
It doesn't. But that's facebook's problem. They will probably update their app to solve it. Which is not required to be installed for the OS integration to work.
At the presentation of iOS 5, many analysts believed that it was the other way around, meaning that Apple intended to integrate either Facebook or Twitter into iOS and Twitter "made a better offer". For me that is more plausible than Apple having to pay something, as it brings additional users to Twitter/Facebook if you have this feature spread all over iOS.
At the moment, Facebook doesn't even derive revenue from their own iOS App, so why would they want a compensation for someone else who is using their API, as thousands of unofficial, free Apps already do? Also, a Facebook integration does not completely substitute for the App, as I doubt that you can see the whole newsfeed on iOS or directly access pages. So this still leaves Facebook with ways to place some advertisement in their App.