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I'm really starting to appreciate this kind of thing about Apple. They seem to be concerned about keeping data in the hands of their users as much as possible,
by mschwaig 10y ago
I'm really starting to appreciate this kind of thing about Apple. They seem to be concerned about keeping data in the hands of their users as much as possible, when the rest of the industry defaults to a cloud-hosted solution that requires the user to completely give up control.
- wstrange 10y agoThat's a nifty feature, but I am sceptical that Apple can offer the same kind of experience when compared to cloud-based solutions that leverage massive amounts of aggregated data and backend processing. Apple has made a pretty big deal about privacy, but they do collect user data (see the interview a few weeks ago with Apple's mapping lead -saying they are collecting user data to improve maps). Ultimately if users want ultra smart AI assistants (Siri, Google Now, Cortana, etc.) they will need to give up some of their data. That may be very unpopular with the HN crowd, but I suspect the vast majority of consumers will be OK with that tradeoff.
- mschwaig 10y agoApple also works on technology that is meant to help users give up less of their privacy. They talked about this at WWDC 2016 under the headline 'Differential Privacy'. They're trying to use statistics to make it harder to attribute data points to individuals while still providing a workable data set on the collective of users. Here's an article about that: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-collecting-data/ https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...