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How many hyperbolic, bad faith posts about Yosemite are going to be made and voted to the top at HN? (This is the third I've seen this week, and they all make e
by aisenik 12y ago
How many hyperbolic, bad faith posts about Yosemite are going to be made and voted to the top at HN? (This is the third I've seen this week, and they all make extremely negative insinuations based on incorrect assumptions and the shallowest possible examination of the functionality being excoriated.)
It appears that the only new functionality in this case is increased visibility via iCloud Drive. Presumably these documents were always saved on iCloud, which has been default behavior when you don't save to the local file system for a while.
As usual, there's an unfounded insinuation that this is intentionally nefarious activity on Apple's part. Documents and Data sync is easily disabled -- what did anyone think it was doing previously?
- sneak 12y agoIt's both intentional, and nefarious - separately. "Intentionally nefarious" implies bad faith - I think it's just wickedly reckless and violates the huge amount of trust that end users place in their OS vendor. The synchronization of the email recents list across iCloud via recentsd is the big problem. If I add a third-party email account that I access via IMAP, it is not the job of my phone or workstation to send the metadata (sender list) to my OS vendor's servers, even if it does enable the feature of easy address autocomplete on my other devices.