I always wondered if anyone would even care if Apple openly admitted that it was completely capturing every bit of data you send and receive. With the recent revelations (Zdziarski et al) we are moving dangerously close to that point.
This company, with its billions in cash, is in a position to exploit user data. Imagine you are a small company using Apple products to conduct technical discussions of an upcoming design. And Apple gets its hands on that discussion, and uses their enormous wealth to front run a patent. The implications are absolutely incredible. But what is even more incredible is the sheep like willingness to tolerate anything even remotely like this in the marketplace. Will that sheeplike tolerance continue? You have to believe it will in order to believe their ecosystem has a future.
People are more than willing to keep using Google's services, and Facebook's.
I read about the back-doors (nice of you to include the links that support your FUD), and although they could be a cause for concern is there any actual evidence that Apple is even thinking about doing this terrible thing that you say that they could do (collecting user data en masse, sorting through all of this user data, identifying potentially valuable ideas, writing up and then applying for patents for said ideas). You understand the sheer work involved with that... right? There are 600mil+ iDevices out there.
Gosh, I sure hope you've destroyed the iDevice that you hate so much (and yet you bought it) so that they can't think about maybe stealing all your data.
I always wondered if anyone would even care if Apple openly admitted that it was completely capturing every bit of data you send and receive. With the recent revelations (Zdziarski et al) we are moving dangerously close to that point.
This company, with its billions in cash, is in a position to exploit user data. Imagine you are a small company using Apple products to conduct technical discussions of an upcoming design. And Apple gets its hands on that discussion, and uses their enormous wealth to front run a patent. The implications are absolutely incredible. But what is even more incredible is the sheep like willingness to tolerate anything even remotely like this in the marketplace. Will that sheeplike tolerance continue? You have to believe it will in order to believe their ecosystem has a future.
I have to pick a street. Half my products are apple half android and pc
Is apple a safe bet?
Because, as is displayed very often in the console gaming section, one cannot be reasonable and own both competing side's products. Having a PS4 and an Xbox One is simply unpossible! You must pick a side and stick with, otherwise, you can't equate your value as a person with the value of a particular company, thus rendering you worthless!Why do you have to "pick a street". As long as the services you want to use are available on both platforms what is wrong with mixing and matching?
I have an Android phone, an iPad and a MacBook Pro where I use both OS X and Windows 7. The only issue that I have run into is that I purchased some TV shows on iTunes some time ago which I can't use on the other platforms. However, I knew this going in and have since decided to not do it in future. I will just rip what I need.
Overall, it works well.
-KeithP
Because, as is displayed very often in the console gaming section, one cannot be reasonable and own both competing side's products. Having a PS4 and an Xbox One is simply unpossible! You must pick a side and stick with, otherwise, you can't equate your value as a person with the value of a particular company, thus rendering you worthless!
I always wondered if anyone would even care if Apple openly admitted that it was completely capturing every bit of data you send and receive. With the recent revelations (Zdziarski et al) we are moving dangerously close to that point.
This company, with its billions in cash, is in a position to exploit user data. Imagine you are a small company using Apple products to conduct technical discussions of an upcoming design. And Apple gets its hands on that discussion, and uses their enormous wealth to front run a patent. The implications are absolutely incredible. But what is even more incredible is the sheep like willingness to tolerate anything even remotely like this in the marketplace. Will that sheeplike tolerance continue? You have to believe it will in order to believe their ecosystem has a future.
I am really confused at people constantly claiming Apple is on the verge of capturing all your data and that Android (created and maintained by a company already capturing all your data) is the answer.
Never put all your eggs in one basket.
It's good practice for working in a mixed Linux/Windows environment.Unless you do with Apple - and it's uniquely for Apple - you're going to have a bad time, in that a lot of your time is going to be spent figuring out how to twist one Apple software / service / product into doing something it's not intended to.
for full scale lock-in, it is. With next OSX there will be pretty good integration with iOS devices, but not much with competing products.
Never put all your eggs in one basket.
It is nice - until you want just that one little thing that Apple didn't design to accommodate, or you want to do it for a fair price.I dunno, I have plenty of friends who are waist-deep in the Apple ecosystem & are perfectly happen there - Airports, Time Capsules, iMacs, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV's, etc. Gives them a fairly hassle-free residential computing experience! :thumbsup:
It's good practice for working in a mixed Linux/Windows environment.
It is nice - until you want just that one little thing that Apple didn't design to accommodate, or you want to do it for a fair price.
RAID-1 on a time capsule, for instance. (Sorry, no, but we can totally sell you a Mac Mini server and a Thunderbolt drive enclosure!)
Right. But that's the point - you have to fiddle a little bit to make the non-apple stuff work with the apple stuff.There are plenty of other devices on the market that will accommodate RAID1 on a NAS and not disrupt anything about the Apple ecosystem. No, it might not be the same color but that's about it. There has to be some caution taken to ensure that time machine will work with whatever you buy, but it's not like it doesn't happen. My approach is a bit convoluted because I owned the device before I came about needing for the specific application, so it's not time machine compatible. I run Crashplan locally to a RAID1 device, then do time machine to an internal drive simply for quick and easy file recovery. Sure, it might waste a bit of space but it works.
Currently locked myself into the Apple ecosystem completely with the purchase of the iPhone 5S. Contract expired, didn't want to wait for the 6 as I smashed my previous phone screen in the lab. IOS8 and Yosemite's hand-off features are what really sealed the deal. It's been weird going from a 4.7" device to a 4" device, and maybe it's a bit too small, 4.3-4.5" would have been ideal however nothing I've used before has felt as rapid and fluid as the 5S.
Right. But that's the point - you have to fiddle a little bit to make the non-apple stuff work with the apple stuff.