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What kind of telemetry do you suppose they're collecting while people have stepped away from their computer for the night? And how does moving the power button
by nozzlegear 2y ago
What kind of telemetry do you suppose they're collecting while people have stepped away from their computer for the night? And how does moving the power button on the Mac mini help Apple collect more of that AFK telemetry when users can just as easily (or, indeed, more easily) use the Shut Down prompt via the system menu?
- m463 2y agoYou're kidding but what about find my? I suspect things like location services and find my are reasons apple has gotten in the way of turning off bluetooth and wifi on their devices. With wifi they get crowdsourced location data. with find my they get crowdsourced device and airtag location and relay. (and ios nfc can't be turned off afaict)
- nozzlegear 2y agoIsn't Find My E2E encrypted? I don't think Apple can get any useful information out of that beyond "user uses Find My." I'm not an expert though, I could be wrong.
- m463 2y agoApple makes money through these crowdsourced services. They depend on connectivity, so apple makes it tougher to turn them off. to be more clear: - location services uses wifi to gather information about wifi access points to add to their wifi<->location database - location services can use wifi to find your location - location services can use bluetooth in the same two ways with ibeacon - find my can locate your devices using wifi/bluetooth - find my can locate other people's devices using your devices