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Steve Jobs: 'We Don't Track Anyone'
fysdt writes "There has obviously been a lot of discussion about last week's disclosure that iOS devices are maintaining an easily-accessible database tracking the movements of users dating back to the introduction of iOS 4 a year ago. The issue has garnered the attention of US elected officials and has played fairly heavily in the mainstream press. One MacRumors reader emailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking for clarification on the issue while hinting about a switch to Android if adequate explanations are not forthcoming. Jobs reportedly responded, turning the tables by claiming both that Apple does not track users and that Android does, while referring to the information about iOS shared in the media as 'false.'"
Apple has now been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the location-tracking issue.
What google does about location 'tracking' is not same as what Apple has been reported to be doing.
And then you proceed to not back up your claim with any actual data.
Both iOS and Android have a location cache. The difference is I'll bet from an Android app I could read that cache and from iOS you cannot. On iOS I know the cache is not sent to Apple, are you so sure the same is true of an Android device?
Any other differences we should know about besides Android being potentially less secure?
It's not like people are making up these claims to smear Android, they are just pointing out the facts - something Android fanatics seem curiously unwilling to discuss.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This is true. The contents of that .db file are never sent to Apple or anyone else.
Yet.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
You were modded down because your post was an incomprehensible train wreck, like they always are.
What's most surprising is the fact that you're surprised.
Celebrity worship is a poor substitute for Deity worship and costs more to boot.