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What licensing issues? It's your phone, your data. I don't think Apple gets to say what you get to do with your data on your phone. If it was on Apple's servers
by aditya42 15y ago
What licensing issues? It's your phone, your data. I don't think Apple gets to say what you get to do with your data on your phone. If it was on Apple's servers, maybe they would have a case.
Plus, it's data that Apple shouldn't have been storing (in its current state, anyway) in the first place.
- jaredsohn 15y agoThen you could make a similar argument for Microsoft scraping Google search results via their browser toolbar. Writing code that has users doing the scraping for you is still scraping.
- caf 15y agoThe data on the phone isn't observations made by the phone of the location of base stations and access points. It's just a cached subset of access point / location (and base station / location) pairs from an existing, online database.