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by Despegar 7y ago
I think what I didn't like about your comments about GDPR is that it used the worst example of the effects on users when you could have used a better one. Take the iPhone for example. The iOS permissions system has basically nailed the
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by Despegar 7y ago
>In the meantime, are there things that average internet citizens can do beyond following the Tech Solidarity guidelines to both protect their own privacy and also support/advocate for progress on these issues? Focusing on tech solu
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by Despegar 7y ago
Great synergies here with the Philip Morris of tech.
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's Instagram but it's Apple's user interaction design [1]. >and works the same on any phone. Well yes, that's what Jobs' "thermonuclear war" was about. In fact Google is still at it with Android Q. Th
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by Despegar 7y ago
Counterpoint: https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1121186334243213314
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by Despegar 7y ago
The Apple brand since the launch of the Mac in 1984 has been "the computer for the rest of us". That has always rubbed a certain kind of tech person the wrong way and it still does to this day. The democratization of computers and
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple Maps not being as good as Google Maps has nothing to do with data collection. The privacy part is just an aside in that article, the main part is how they're making their maps better.
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by Despegar 7y ago
While I agree with the rest of your post I want to respond to this particular part of it: >I will happily give Google my location if it helps me avoid traffic jams, something many HN readers object to. The premise of this statement is th
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by Despegar 7y ago
>privacy is not a tangible to be sold or exchanged It is right now in the US (outside of health data). It isn't in the EU because of GDPR.
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by Despegar 7y ago
HomeKit doesn't require an internet connection for smart home devices to work, it doesn't require you to use the smart home maker's garbage apps or sign up for accounts with them, it gives away for free features that smart ho
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by Despegar 7y ago
Once again HomeKit's design proves to be prescient. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16083996/internet-of-shit-...
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by Despegar 7y ago
Watch and AirPods are early in the S curve of adoption and have clear product market fit and no viable competitors. It's clearly inflecting higher.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Microsoft could have thrown their lot in with Apple, but I guess they're going to look more like the ad-tech giants than Apple and need to preserve the status quo. Apple should assemble a separate coalition of businesses that would lea
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by Despegar 8y ago
Better link https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/navy-seals-crimes-of-w...
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by Despegar 8y ago
>Why didn't the people calling for Facebook's death by fine make the same arguments in these other cases? Because they don't really believe in this as a general policy. This is complete nonsense and shows you weren't
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by Despegar 8y ago
Here's a nice infographic with some of the settlements. https://dmxvlyap9srmn.cloudfront.net/production/articles/353...
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by Despegar 8y ago
>It does not seem at all clear to me that any tech company could sustain routine fines of this scale and remain a going concern. It will be fine if they stop doing the things that cause the fines. A $3-5B fine is nothing compared to the
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by Despegar 8y ago
From the New Yorker profile of Jony Ive a few years ago: >Apple employs three recruiters whose sole task is to identify designers to join the group; they find perhaps one a year. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20
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by Despegar 8y ago
This might be the only video of most if not all of the ID team at Apple [1]. I've been following Apple since I was 16 or 17 and I think in that time they've been pretty anonymous in the Apple story. Found a photo of them [2]. [1]
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by Despegar 8y ago
This is an incredibly well reported story. >As far back as 2014, the question of how Ireland would handle the new privacy rules under the GDPR was on the minds of Facebook’s leaders. As it happened, Ireland was in the process of choosing
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by Despegar 8y ago
Those are from employees of Apple. And I have no problem with Apple lobbying if they're going to lobby for federal privacy legislation that is as strong as GDPR. The ad-tech giants are certainly lobbying to defang it. https:/&#x2
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by Despegar 8y ago
They haven't needed outside capital because Amazon has been generating free cash flow since 2002 or 2003. They were losing money on a GAAP basis because they were investing in capex heavy things like warehouses and data centers. Lookin
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by Despegar 8y ago
>But there seems like there should be a technological solution. Even if there was (there isn't) I wouldn't waste a single second thinking about or advocating for it. The only sustainable "solution" can come from Congr
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Big business is trying to gut California's landmark privacy law(latimes.com)
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by Despegar 8y ago
I don't see why it's in Apple's interest to get the FTC to settle.
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by Despegar 8y ago
>If Qualcomm has given up on tying patents to chips then it has effectively lost. If they can maintain that position with everyone but Apple, they'll probably be OK with the outcome. Apple now has a direct license with Qualcomm. The
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by Despegar 8y ago
The one time payment is likely just what they've been withholding for the past few years during litigation plus interest.
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by Despegar 8y ago
Hopefully the FTC case doesn't get settled.
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by Despegar 8y ago
What? The point of end-to-end encryption is that Apple doesn't retain the keys. iMessage and FaceTime are end-to-end encrypted. And after Messages in iCloud, you get the benefit of E2E while everything stays in sync across all your dev
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by Despegar 8y ago
From the article: >Investigators who spoke with The New York Times said they had not sent geofence warrants to companies other than Google, and Apple said it did not have the ability to perform those searches.

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