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Another case of how Apple doesn't care about its customers. They offer the opt-out option but turn the service on by default and don't notify anyone. Good thin
by thechut 14y ago
Another case of how Apple doesn't care about its customers. They offer the opt-out option but turn the service on by default and don't notify anyone.
Good thing (for Apple) most of their customers have had too much koolaid to care.
- headShrinker 14y agoWhat a ridiculous comment. Take your trolling comments somewhere else. Nearly every company is guilty of reusing collected data and almost always without telling customers.
- suyash 14y agoIt's not a ridiculous comment. Do you work at Apple? What's wrong with him expressing his opinion. I feel the same way and belive we can have a discussion about what's right and what's wrong. I agree that most companies just automatically subscribe you in when they create new feature and they make it users responsibility to opt out but I hate it as much as most of us. At least they (including Apple) should be responsible of informing users if they decide to keep us opted in automatically. Tracking is not a joke, people are very concerned about it.
- Karunamon 14y agoIt's not a ridiculous comment. P> Good thing (for Apple) most of their customers have had too much koolaid to care. We're going to have to agree to disagree on that. One bit of snarky bullshit ruins the whole comment.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoIt is counterfactual to say that Apple does not care about its customers. It does way too much for them to make that statement anything but ridiculous. That said, it's also possible to recognize cases where their behavior might not be in the customers' best interests. Whether you think this is one of those cases probably depends on how much harm you think tracking does to the average consumer. Personally, I'm completely satisfied with their opt-out approach. People who care can opt out. The vast majority of people who don't* can receive more relevant advertisement. But I can accept that other people have different value functions where this approach would be considered less benign. *And before someone quotes a survey where people claim to care, my personal view is that actions speak louder than words on this point. If you really care, you'd be taking steps to make yourself aware of what is happening on your phone and responding accordingly.
- radge 14y agoThis change was communicated in the iOS 5 beta over a year ago.
- mooism2 14y agoIf you'd left out the final sentence I would have upvoted instead of downvoting.
- mikeryan 14y agoAs a note this actually represents an improvement for Apple. It used to be that advertisers were able to use the raw UDID to identify users and it was used widely until the whole Path blowup got Congress involved. Advertising is a necessary evil and tracking users is a part of that, while its opt-out instead of opt-in this at least allows users who have concerns a lot of ability to choose if and how they want to be tracked.