>> Unfortunately apple/google/carriers have a vested interest in making our devices very promiscuous. (location services, [...] > You don't see the contradicti

>> Unfortunately apple/google/carriers have a vested interest in making our devices very promiscuous. (location services, [...] > You don't see the contradiction here? You want your phones to have location-aware features, but right afterwards say that you don't want it because it makes your device "very promiscuous". I don't think it's a contradiction. You can have a phone that knows its own location without telling Google/Apple where it is, and that uses that information to toggle features. (I'm kind of skipping the cell carriers because you do have to give them coarse location by virtue of how cell network work.) A device can get location by purely passive GPS without involving any external services, but that's a pretty sucky experience (slow lock, low precision)... I think you can do AGPS without telling anyone where you are, though. Anyways, my point is that there is a world of difference between you having your information/location and anyone else having it.