TL;DR: #Apple don't care that much about your privacy (gasp); and if you don't want your router or access point's BSSID to be passively scanned by hundreds of nearby devices and sent to Apple (and #Google), append "_nomap" to its SSID.
News alerts just notified me that I'm included in a request for attorneys fees. Okay, so, back in late 2022, I was hired to serve as an expert/hybrid witness for a fraud class-action against #Apple, but when Apple found out, Apple flipped out & got me kicked off. Apple's response now to the motion mentioning me is apparently feigning amnesia & pretending they don't know who I am.
I was very excited to discover that my #whistleblower case against #Apple was featured in yet another article about how companies are not supposed to fire their employees in #retaliation for reporting crimes!
Setting aside the fact our tech has been getting smaller and thinner for decades so I don’t really understand this question, I think the larger benefit is weight.
As someone who has been using a 13” iPad Pro for ~ 80% of my daily work and play for years, every fraction of an ounce they can shed is welcome, especially since this device is designed to be held; it doesn’t just sit on a surface like a laptop.
@chartier For sure. I mean if I could have thinner, lighter AND longer battery, that’s a no brainer. Trying to imagine an iPhone the same thickness and this new iPad and having a hard time visualizing it. At some point the camera bump is going to be the limiting thickness factor 😂
@chartier I’ve been baffled by this too. I’ve even seen people say “no-one was asking for a lighter iPad”. Which suggests to me they were using it like a laptop most of the time. That might be why they’re so annoyed it isn’t like a Mac laptop. For me, who mostly uses the iPad Pro 12.9in handheld, a change in weight would be fantastic.
I currently have an iPhone 13 Pro and want to buy a bicycle after moving to a new city. Do you recommend a phone holder for my bike or Apple Watch for navigation purposes? I don’t own a watch yet but I can see how it would make sense on a bicycle. I just don’t know which solution is best. I probably would have to bring my...
« Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag » by @briankrebs
« Apple did not respond to requests for comment. But in late March 2024, #Apple quietly tweaked its #privacy policy, allowing people to opt out of having the #location of their wireless access points collected and shared by Apple — by appending “_nomap” to the end of the Wi-Fi access point’s name (SSID). Adding “_nomap” to your Wi-Fi network name also blocks Google from indexing its location. »
a new article on 9to5Mac comparing the iPad Pro with the upcoming Surface Pro. unfortunately it also conveniently ignores the fact that one is effectively running a super limited phone OS while the other a fully flexible desktop OS.
I hope that this will finally force Apple to allow iPad Pros to run macOS (even virtualized) as all that awesome power is just getting wasted.
@stux there is confirmation that they collaborated with the PRISM program in the past. Reformed offenders? Maybe. But also let's not forget that #privacywashing is a very good marketing and PR enabler. I personally still don't trust them.
@stux It happened to my iPhone and my iPad. I noticed it because my albums are kept almost empty. I had always assumed iPhones used some type of secure delete, but clearly not.
@bacteriano la diferencia está (si uno lee el artículo) en que mientras google le devuelve su ubicación al dispositivo android que la pregunte, apple le devuelve la ubicación de cientos de BSSIDS al dispositivo que la pregunte. Efectivamente permitiendo que otros individuos puedan localizar a virtualmente quien sea. No solo la compañía.
@categulario Si por eso apple perfeccionó su find me y los dispositivos apple se intercomunican via bluetooth y te localizan con precisión. Eso ya se sabia.
Lei el articulo pero quizá deje de poner atención cuando sentí que estaba un poco tendesioso, voy a tratar de leerlo con calma mas tarde
@kaplag Solid take. Obviously, I don’t know anymore than you do. But if I had to make a guess, I’d say the Vision Pro will get lighter and lighter and continue to add both features and content. And, presumably, there will come a day when two people or a group of people can share the experience more than simply being on the same FaceTime call.
@davemark Imagine proposing a movie night with a bunch of friends. How many groups of people today could get everyone invited to bring their Mac laptop or iPad to the party? I'd be kind of inconvenient for 4-5 people to all lug these devices to a friend's.
Apple Vision Pro seems more like a platform akin to those devices.
The only tech I know of where a bunch of people could get together and all have a device on them is a smartphone. Even then it might be a mix and have android devices.
Did you know you can opt out of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced SSID Location Services now?
You have to rename your SSID to end with “_nomap”. To know more about this read Apple's “about privacy and Location Services in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS" document. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102515
@danie10 perhaps they can't - National Security Letter. Just like with the push-notification debacle. It's good practice to install a device from scratch from time-to-time and if you have software like iMazing, it's quiet an eye opener.
I wish I didn’t feel like Apple was one of the very few, sometimes only, major tech companies trying to build with privacy in mind. Yes, I get there are arguably places it may or can erode that design. They’re besides the point for now.
And granted, I generally like Apple’s products. But in some ways I also feel like I’m stuck here; I truly wish more of its peers valued our privacy.
When I was in high school and I was just starting to get super into #Apple, I was very very broke. These stickers were like a badge of honor when I eventually got my first Mac when I started college.
15 years later, I’m not sure I could tell you what happened to a single sticker we’ve gotten since.
But not using on-device ML doesn't fit the Apple brand. Having dedicated data-centres just for the AI stuff would also go against there net-zero goal. Great if the building is powered by renewables, but I would rather use the resources for something different.
@stefanzweifel If it's not locally I don't want it. At least make the Stuff that runs on the server optional.
But as face detection and other stuff in photos also runs on device while you charge your iPhone, it would be unlikely that Apple wants to use servers for this.
Especially when you look at the headlines for Microsoft. What was it? 30% increase in energy consumption because of AI? That's nuts. Definitely nothing Apple wants to have on their side. If the iPhone runs it locally it's distributed between all iPhones.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of a collaboration between Apple and OpenAI. But as long as OpenAI doesn't gets my phones data, I think I'm fine.
Der Ausverkauf beginnt, wer möchte gerne eine, aber Achtung keine EU-Garantie. Da kommen bei mir so einige Fragezeichen auf wenn ich das in einem Schweizer Mitarbeiter Shop vergünstigt kaufen könnte.
The sale is starting, who would like one, but beware, no EU guarantee. This raises a few question marks for me if I could buy it at a discount in a Swiss staff store. #Apple#VisionPro
My little #RealityKit / #visionOS debugging tool is getting closer to release. Still a few things to be done, but I'm quite happy w/ it already. Completely written in #SwiftUI.
