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once a person connects to another person on FaceTime it for some reason non of us in the office can figure out, sends us APPLE a message and says those two peop
by madair 16y ago
once a person connects to another person on FaceTime it for some reason non of us in the office can figure out, sends us APPLE a message and says those two people are connecting via Facetime and gives out their location to us. So for whatever reason we need that information just blows my mind. As a consumer why would you need to let Apple know that you are connecting with a person via FaceTime, its non of Apple’s business.
That seems pretty bad.
- tptacek 16y agoWhy? Every time I log into AIM I tell AOL where I am too.
- madair 16y agoYeah, and a phone call is analogous. I'd retract my comment, but it's too late.
- cooldude127 16y agoLocation information could be used to connect people to a server that gives them a better connection. Not necessarily an evil thing.
- cheald 16y agoThat information can be had passively via a GeoIP-like service, though, since it's only usable on a wifi (and thus, tethered to some hard line) connection. Sending GPS coordinates seems rather unnecessary.
- astrange 16y ago> That seems pretty bad. It's required so you can map phone numbers to the other person's IP address. I assume it's also used for STUN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN). (This is just me guessing, of course, but the "don't automatically assume a huge conspiracy theory" method almost always ends up with me being right, so there.)
- madair 16y agoI wasn't thinking so much conspiracy theory...just marketing overreach, I didn't think there's possibly a technical explanation that holds water, interesting.
- jsz0 16y agoIncrementally connecting to random IPV4 addresses has been shown to be a really awkward way of setting up a peer to peer connection. When you try it with IPV6 people have the tendency to get born, live 70 or 80 years, and die before their FaceTime call gets connected.