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Apple Took Out a CES Ad To Troll Its Competitors Over Privacy (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shared a report: Historically, Apple hasn't had an official presence at CES. It's not surprising given the company's success at hosting and hyping its own product launch events -- long before the iPod and iPhone brought Apple to the top of the technology mountain, Steve Jobs keynotes were can't miss events. The company is also very deliberate about its marketing campaigns; when I see Apple billboard ads, they focus on new product close-ups with minimal messaging. This is why the giant ad banner I saw when I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday for CES 2019 caught my eye. Positioned not far from the convention center where CES takes place, the sign is a cheeky riff on the old "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" slogan -- and with just a few words, it casts an Apple-shaped shadow over the convention.
I don't understand why Google, Facebook, Twitter and a lot of other companies get a pass over privacy. It used to be that Apple, was a bad player in this area by unnecessary collecting data. While Apple didn't change, everyone else rushed into most outrageous abuses. So, sadly, now Apple is one of the better players in this area.
They're still a PRISM partner with the US Government which means they are completely compromised and your data isn't safe at all. Why does anyone even buy these fucking advertisements? Did everyone already forget about the Ed Snowden leaks? Are my fellow countrymen really that insipid, thick, and forgetful?
Apple is just great Nudging users to put their data on iClown vs saving locally, making it harder to use iPhones/iPads with USB or WiFi direct transfer, getting rid of USB ports to make offline external storage more annoying to use. Apple stinks like the rest of them.
...cause Apple has methodically made sure you will not get any spare parts to fix it.
Fortunately, there's a market that "fell from the truck", at least for not. Stolen or counterfeit parts are the best parts, and hopefully they'll be harder to stop from entering the country with the government shutdown...
that they have nothing to offer at the CES. The company is so irrelevant.
CES is for electronics companies not fashion brands,
How is this trolling? They are advertising a supposed feature of their phone, and supposing their competitors lack that feature then it's automatically trolling? I really hate Apple and think they are evil, but my view is not so warped as to think advertising advantages is trolling.
Apple says they don't make any money on repairs.
But they're making money on privacy so long as you believe the hoax, and others won't refute, only complain about it, because they're as equally guilty.
Slowly, the reality distortion field evaporated, the stock slid, and having nothing interesting, no new market to beachhead (as the marketing folks talk, having seen watches flop mightily as well) slowly slid back to oblivion with one of the largest offshore cash hoards ever assembled in the history of the planet.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
When you belong to a mafia-like cult, it's true that your secrets stay within the organization. So long as you acknowledge that Apple owns you, they will protect you.
How about Apple simplify the EULA's into one easy to read document and remove the parts where you share data with third parties.
How about they stop selling Apple users to Google if that is a problem. That 9billion is not a big deal.
Instead of criticising Facebook why don't you simply remove it from the App store, you removed Tumblr simply because women were sharing porn.
Apple lost out against Alexa and Google Home simply because it does not understand the difference between big data and privacy.
I am happy to give up my data so my emails are spam free, my journey to work easier, provides news/videos I am interested in. He'll i even want free content for being advertised to.
Apple fail to point out the 16000 requests they have had from law inforcement
Privacy as a selling point by Apple is a disgrace, when it is an issue that should be properly by Government.
Apple privacy means being bad at big data.A concern as Apple records medical information.
The one more thing was big data...and they missed it.
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If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
They are not at CES. Apple is struggling to sell their phones at the new price point. So now have to drive demand.
Xiaomi handed out chargers to those in Apple queues. Microsoft gave them directors chairs.
I hope their is a poster that says buy a better phone for a fifth of the price, rather than from hypocrites who abuse you as customers, with overpriced unimaginative products...maybe something catchy like the couldn't design it not to wiggle on a table or comes Apple's phones comes with children's sweat and blood.
But yeah is definitely a troll, and that is not a bar thing
That's the slogan used, for those who don't want to have to actually click on the story and supply advertising revenue to a clickbait site.
I bought an iPhone on the first day in '07, cause it was obviously a great thing.
In about 2012, I switched to Android, mostly cause I run linux everywhere else and like it.
I thought I'd have more privacy, then slowly realized how stupid that was.
Looked into Cyanogenmod and LineageOS over and over, but ran out of time to ever actually do it.
Finally gave up, bit down, and went back to iPhone (it was a hand-me-down 6S)
I really liked Android. Still lots that can't do on the iPhone.
I really wish there was a better choice, but for now, I'm depending on Apple to keep the worst data harvesters at bay.
With Google, you don't get that option, got burned too many times.
Listening to android fanboys cry tears of rage as their precious OS became a tool of great evil and controversy. They will soothe their fears by pretending Linux is popular and the desktop version will be used by everyone someday.
Meanwhile in the real world Apple and Microsoft make lots of money, and Linux / Android users get screwed by their poor choices.
The new Android fans are still playing with their new phones...like the whole of China, rather than bitch about the headphone jack, or the SE2 not being real because they could afford one.
This is just lipservice from Apple who sell you to Google for 9000000000 dollers. Apple users should be the ones Annoyed. If Apple is going to use that line...they need to step up.
Gmail used to scan your incoming mail for keywords in order to deliver contextually relevant advertising. It stopped that practice a year and a half ago. Since July 2017, Gmail ads are instead interest-based, drawing context from your browsing history on other Google properties and on third parties' websites that use Google analytics or advertising.
I wouldn't put pictures on iCloud unless you want them released. Especially those naked ones.
Apple USED TO BE? You must be naive to think that Apple isn't collecting tons of user data.
Trolling is really just a cop out and a sign of desperation. It means you're all out of ideas and you have nothing new to offer. So you resort to trolling your rivals. We see this all the time in our politics, and now companies are trolling too and thinking it's normal? That's not cool.
Most of them are a generation or two old high end phone, not unlike your 6S, but the well supported ones work great, and when combined with f-droid provide an end to end open source experience, including firewalling.
I personally use one all the time, although my particular model (which is officially unsupported) had a variety of quirks my first generation device didn't (Huwei brand phone from the Android 2 days.)
Both have served me well for many years, and the benefits of Lineage outweigh the detriments, unless you need netflix or other widevine/ARM TEE L1 DRM support.
Did you not know you are sold to Google for 9billion dollers.
Quick look at the top twenty on Apple store
YouTube
Instagram
Snapchat
Messenger
Facebook
Bitmoji
Netflix
Google Maps
Gmail
Spotify Music
Amazon
Uber
WhatsApp Messenger
Pandora
Wish
TikTok
Cash App
Google Photos
Google Chrome
Twitter
Looks like lots of Google and Facebook apps. Why hasn't Apple protected you
Ironically I moved from Apple to Android after watching the south park HUMANCENTiPAD about Apple's EULA and was disgusted by Apple.
You are right it is not an Apple only proprietary format...but that is a lie through omition.
Apple hold patents on the AAC format recent ones too.
Slashdot, this is beneath you. Apple's market capitalization is two thirds of a trillion dollars. Do you really need to give them free advertising just because they bought a banner at a trade show?
Apple still redirects 100% of all SMS traffic aimed at other iPhone users through its own servers. Installing facebook or twitter on my phone doesn't do that. If I buy an iPhone I can choose if I want to use Twitter or Facebook at all. I can't choose whether I want Apple to have all my SMS traffic.
That you don't see these signs at the Blackhat Hackathon where apple devices are continually hacked.
That's the slogan used, for those who don't want to have to actually click on the story and supply advertising revenue to a clickbait site.
It's almost like the apple-exclusive fappening never happened... You never really understand the term "Reality Distortion" until you see Apple's marketing literature (which sooner or later get regurgitated by iPhone users).
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
You are too dumb and boring to matter, stifle your urge to blather in public. You're a moron. Nobody cares. Hold it in, go bother your mom.
Simply don't have anything worth mentioning on there in the first place!
Or better yet, use encryption. Just because it's not enabled by default, doesn't make it less secure, it's there for people who want it.
Apple, who has usually had (IMHO) second rate hardware for over inflated prices, but they care about user's privacy. Or everyone else.
Some brands give your data away to the US gov under PRISM.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I use a Windows Phone to keep my data private. Works fine.
I don't respond to AC's.
So your response is Google used to read your e-mail until recently but now they just cyber-stalk you. That's technically an improvement.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
Only Apple's bosses determine what "Apple's purpose" is. We come to know what Google's main line of business is (spying) because what now know that they have been doing (spying). Now that we know more about what Apple, Microsoft, and other proprietors do we can retroactively say what they've been doing. Snowden and others have provided irrefutable proof that software proprietors don't care about one's privacy and the structure of proprietary software was a long-time clue to those who understand the power of software non-freedom over the user regarding what is possible. Certainly keeping secrets from the user and putting in general-purpose holes into systems for future exploitation are the most practical means by which to do many things against the user's interests including but not limited to not looking out for their privacy. If Apple gets a pass amongst technocrats it's because some technically skilled users are easily distracted by details and not repeatedly taught to look at the bigger picture (software non-freedom is the root of virtually all of these abuses). Here are some more specific examples of these points:
Digital Citizen
Tim Cock doesn't like to talk about that...
Should be maybe ask Jennifer Lawrence about this?
That's the slogan used, for those who don't want to have to actually click on the story and supply advertising revenue to a clickbait site.
Well, most of it ends up with Apple, who are happy to share it. Only the stuff you do while offline from the net, or since last sync is protected from the automtic sharing (which is what FBI is usually interested in).
What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. **
** Only while Airplane mode is active
No one made them tell that lie. They didn't have to bring it up.
Your iPhone constantly uploads gigabytes of your personal data to Apple servers.
I suspect that more of what happens on an Android phone without a Google account stays there.