Would you feel the same if it was your wife and child that would go hungry and homeless because of their greed? They did this to gain an unfair business advantage and make lots of money. That money comes from market share they stole from other competitors that have employees. Those employees have families that depend on there wages. If their company losses money they lose work and real innocent people suffer! Cheating industry damages the economy and hurts individuals.
Don't get so excited this is only for Apple sanctioned promotions where the advertiser wants permission to use Apple trademarks in their ads. Every company has guidelines for this. This really only applies to Apple dealers and sellers. Your free to do whatever you want if your not using Apple's IP or under contract with Apple already.
Its not a EULA it's an advertising contract. it has nothing to do with consumers.
Silly Fonts aren't even copyrightable let alone trademarkable. But a product name in a specific font is... that's called a logo. So yes they can prevent you from using "iPad" in Myriad. And they can enforce it on anything under the reasoning that official trademarks would indicate Apple's involvement when there isn't any.
Cell towers transmit there location to the phone and the wifi locations are looked up and sent from skyhook. None of this is useful information for Apple they already have access to all that info. This data is not transmitted. When you use location services to find your location it looks at this file and the towers and wifi signals to get a head start for the GPS system if once your location is found there are new wifi signals in the area these are sent anonymously. This file is never sent. only new APs discovered when you activate LS which are of course also added to the file. (OK it's actually 3 files well 1 database 3 tables)
Cell tower data is always collected and always will be. That's how phones work. Wifi locations are mostly downloaded from skyhook with only newly discovered AP locations being transmitted if the user enables it.
Who's the fanboy here? The data is in the users folder and the whole user folder is backed up. But somehow to you that indicates a clear and malicious intent save the data. Of you may not understand that since when it comes to backing up your data "Droid doesn't".
Exactly how does 42.231,82.629 tell me where the nearest gas station is? It Doesn't. GPS data is useless to humans without a database of some other info to compare it to. Use google maps or google earth then google has your location. Other then a few nav systems that allow you to download a map anything using location services transmits your location.
And even just getting your GPS coordinates will transmit your location since the phone will ping cell towers to help it speed things up (called AGPS and required by law)
NO the don't haven't and never have. The only issue was that the log file was still being updated. However it was not used and could not be without turning location services on.
Steve has never outright said he's not an Alien from the planet Kanzis. Therefore he must be hiding that fact right. Yes lets ignore the fact that bunches of researchers inspecting every packet transmitted from the phone have not found any data being transmitted. Steve must be using some of his Alien technology to transmit it via subspace. Put your tinfoil hat back on and go back to watching Fox News.
Google has allowed you to actually turn off tracking by Google. It is part of the setup procedure in every Android phone. They don't even stop you from using location services if you tell them not to collection our location data.
I know Android users aren't that smart but really? Do you even understand the concept of location services? When you use location services your phone can only determine it's GPS coordinates. That in and of itself is pretty useless. So then the APP SENDS THAT DATA TO A SERVER SOMEWHERE where it is logged and the server checks its database to send back a location. The reality is unless you only use location services to display GPS coordinates on your screen. YOUR STILL BEING TRACKED!
Older phones used a different file that can not be accessed directly in any way. Not that this one could be without jail-breaking or the users authorization.
Once again STOP MAKING SHIT UP!!! The phone did not transmit this data and does not and never has transmitted location data with location services off. There has never been any secret transmission of data! Everything sent to Apple has been known from day 1.
Well duh! why cache data that's already on The Motherships (Google's) servers. And note the file did not keep years worth of data just years old data. Data for each tower was overwritten. Thus the further you went back the less data there was.
Just shut the hell up with your made up issues. Foxconn workers are far less likely to commit suicide then the general population. The line should be making iPhones makes workers happy saving them from suicide.
And People still can't stop making shit up! There is one file. (the Cache) its not hidden. It contains locations of cell towers and wi-fi APs. It does not contain the users location. The data for each tower was over written and only logged when towers came into range. As such the data never could be used to "trace some ones every move". The data would only show the general location of the user (being somewhere near a tower). The app that showed the locations sensationalized the whole thing by showing a week or mores worth of data by default putting in many more data points. Many days would actually contain few or no data points at all. And no one has shown this data being sent to Apple.
Well then they lose. Neither Google or Apple send an "unique ID attached to the specific phone" both use randomly generated IDs. Unfortunately Google only reset its ID when the phone is reset while the iPhones resets twice a day.
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Would you feel the same if it was your wife and child that would go hungry and homeless because of their greed? They did this to gain an unfair business advantage and make lots of money. That money comes from market share they stole from other competitors that have employees. Those employees have families that depend on there wages. If their company losses money they lose work and real innocent people suffer! Cheating industry damages the economy and hurts individuals.
I'm writing a browser in JavaScript that will run on itself !!!
anyone?
As far as anyone can tell Lodsys is one patent attorney and thats it.
Don't get so excited this is only for Apple sanctioned promotions where the advertiser wants permission to use Apple trademarks in their ads. Every company has guidelines for this. This really only applies to Apple dealers and sellers. Your free to do whatever you want if your not using Apple's IP or under contract with Apple already.
Its not a EULA it's an advertising contract. it has nothing to do with consumers.
Silly Fonts aren't even copyrightable let alone trademarkable. But a product name in a specific font is... that's called a logo. So yes they can prevent you from using "iPad" in Myriad. And they can enforce it on anything under the reasoning that official trademarks would indicate Apple's involvement when there isn't any.
Cell towers transmit there location to the phone and the wifi locations are looked up and sent from skyhook. None of this is useful information for Apple they already have access to all that info. This data is not transmitted. When you use location services to find your location it looks at this file and the towers and wifi signals to get a head start for the GPS system if once your location is found there are new wifi signals in the area these are sent anonymously. This file is never sent. only new APs discovered when you activate LS which are of course also added to the file. (OK it's actually 3 files well 1 database 3 tables)
Cell tower data is always collected and always will be. That's how phones work. Wifi locations are mostly downloaded from skyhook with only newly discovered AP locations being transmitted if the user enables it.
Did you even read the post you replied to?
Who's the fanboy here? The data is in the users folder and the whole user folder is backed up. But somehow to you that indicates a clear and malicious intent save the data. Of you may not understand that since when it comes to backing up your data "Droid doesn't".
Exactly how does 42.231,82.629 tell me where the nearest gas station is? It Doesn't. GPS data is useless to humans without a database of some other info to compare it to. Use google maps or google earth then google has your location. Other then a few nav systems that allow you to download a map anything using location services transmits your location.
And even just getting your GPS coordinates will transmit your location since the phone will ping cell towers to help it speed things up (called AGPS and required by law)
NO the don't haven't and never have. The only issue was that the log file was still being updated. However it was not used and could not be without turning location services on.
Steve has never outright said he's not an Alien from the planet Kanzis. Therefore he must be hiding that fact right. Yes lets ignore the fact that bunches of researchers inspecting every packet transmitted from the phone have not found any data being transmitted. Steve must be using some of his Alien technology to transmit it via subspace. Put your tinfoil hat back on and go back to watching Fox News.
Google has allowed you to actually turn off tracking by Google. It is part of the setup procedure in every Android phone. They don't even stop you from using location services if you tell them not to collection our location data.
I know Android users aren't that smart but really? Do you even understand the concept of location services? When you use location services your phone can only determine it's GPS coordinates. That in and of itself is pretty useless. So then the APP SENDS THAT DATA TO A SERVER SOMEWHERE where it is logged and the server checks its database to send back a location. The reality is unless you only use location services to display GPS coordinates on your screen. YOUR STILL BEING TRACKED!
No actually your understanding is flawed. Data is from radio logs. The poster was Right.
The bad behavior was in reading peoples location from their phone when they were told not to.
To bad this never happened! Data was never transmitted.
At this point though Apple hasn't come out and said that they will stop secretly tracking iPhones.
Funny how something that's been public for years is somehow secret.
The big question is, are they still reading location data when location services are turned off
Once again they never were.
The data wasn't sync the users folder was the file just happened to be in it. HEY IDIOT THAT"S WHY ITS CALLED A BACKUP.
WHAT you mean that when I click the button that says use location services the the phone secretly uses location services!!! I'm shocked NOW SHUT UP!
Older phones used a different file that can not be accessed directly in any way. Not that this one could be without jail-breaking or the users authorization.
Once again STOP MAKING SHIT UP!!! The phone did not transmit this data and does not and never has transmitted location data with location services off. There has never been any secret transmission of data! Everything sent to Apple has been known from day 1.
Well duh! why cache data that's already on The Motherships (Google's) servers. And note the file did not keep years worth of data just years old data. Data for each tower was overwritten. Thus the further you went back the less data there was.
Just shut the hell up with your made up issues. Foxconn workers are far less likely to commit suicide then the general population. The line should be making iPhones makes workers happy saving them from suicide.
And People still can't stop making shit up! There is one file. (the Cache) its not hidden. It contains locations of cell towers and wi-fi APs. It does not contain the users location. The data for each tower was over written and only logged when towers came into range. As such the data never could be used to "trace some ones every move". The data would only show the general location of the user (being somewhere near a tower). The app that showed the locations sensationalized the whole thing by showing a week or mores worth of data by default putting in many more data points. Many days would actually contain few or no data points at all. And no one has shown this data being sent to Apple.
That is completely false. Examinations have clearly shown that while location services are off no data is transmitted to Apple.
Shut up Apple lets you turn it off just as much as google.
Well then they lose. Neither Google or Apple send an "unique ID attached to the specific phone" both use randomly generated IDs. Unfortunately Google only reset its ID when the phone is reset while the iPhones resets twice a day.