And for those people, you can turn that setting off. It even warns you about it on the power off screen. If you don't trust the setting to actually turn off, then you shouldn't trust anything about the phone and should smash it up with a hammer.
Almost all of the digs at Apple have been things that apply industry wide and it is an interesting observation. There was one recently worded something like "EU to require Apple to update phones for 7 years" but if you look at the actual proposal, it applies to all phone makers and Apple is the only one anywhere close to compliant to this proposal.
Other scandals like Samsung disabling the cameras when unlocking the boot loader go practically unnoticed. Almost everything said about Apple is true and I don't dispute that, but people seem to believe that Apple is the only one using questionable labor, gluing in batteries, or applying software restrictions when it's basically industry standard right now.
That’s because you pay more attention to news relating to Apple.
As someone with little general interest in the smartphone market, the digs seem to be pretty widespread nowadays. Samsung did indeed take flack for disabling the camera. Complains about the Play Store and Google anticompetitive behaviors are common and Apple is often in the press due to their high profile legal battle with Epic.
I don't know I feel Apple really got worse than the competition.
It started with "You are holding it wrong.", horrible keyboards, "you need to use USB-C for everything, except our iphones come with lighting + old USB cables", to charge your mouse you need to plugin the cable on the bottom etc.
That's kind of standard.
Yet, the recent moves: Snitch Software that works against the user with a worldwide localization network + no care about security at all.
I mean after Pegasus hit the news, Apple announced their picture scanning initiative. They didn't acknowledge or try to fix their horrible bounty program (compared to Microsoft and Google) and waited for a non-profit (awesome Citizen Lab) to find and fix their bug ... (a 0 click in iMessage)
This is sort of more of the same as what I was saying. Android phones have horrible hardware flaws and they don't gain much attention. At the same time as "You are holding it wrong" Nexus 5x phones where bricking due to bad NAND chips. Nexus 6P phones where crashing due to battery issues similar to the iphone but they did not throttle the phone and left it to crash. Samsung had phones that would explode in to fireballs. Samsung's flip phones crack at the fold and are extremely expensive to fix. Google Photos has been doing the exact same image scanning for the whole lifetime of the product and no one noticed or cared.
All OEMs have had hardware issues or scandals but they are all quickly forgotten while any fault on an iPhone becomes memorialized forever. They were all real faults but they weren't ever any worse than the rest, only more news worthy.
Apple should have fixed these things with their iron grip on their production line. They shouldn't have had malfunctioning GPUs or CPU's shorting because they're too close to the display's power line, and they certainly shouldn't have dragged out the USB-C transition on iPhone so long. But they have, and it's always the same bullshit excuses that nobody wants to hear from the most powerful company in the world. These devices start to lose their 'magic' once you understand how the sausage is made (and at what cost), so I think criticism of them is perfectly warranted. Imagine how silly you'd look 15 years ago if you tried arguing that Microsoft didn't have a browser monopoly, or even today if you tried defending Facebook for 'trying their hardest'. It's all lip-service when your company is thousands of people large.
yet, what's new for me is the combination of not caring about security, scanning on your phone (not in the cloud) and implementing a world wide localization network.
the road to hell is plastered with good intentions ...
The scanning only touches photos which are stored on iCloud. Yes it does it on your phone but the reality is the same on iCloud or Google Photos. Both Apple and Google can push out changes live to every phone without warning, so what they may do in the future doesn't really matter. Only what they claim to be doing now. This is actually a more privacy friendly approach because it would be compatible with encrypted cloud storage.
again the scanning is implemented on the phone. That's what matters for me. I have some code on my device that works as snitch against me. That might just be a feeling and irrational, yet I really don't want that.
I know how it works. I don't use google photos. I don't WANT to use icloud ... Maybe I'm just too stupid, yet I enabled iCloud several times by accident due to updates/new devices.
That won't happen with my grapheneOS nexus5 :)
Ultimately it doesn't really matter anyway. Unless you are the worlds most wanted criminal and Apple is working with the government to track you down via your turned off iphone. And in that case, you should have done your research to see this anyway.
If the average user blows past this message, it has no impact on their life.
From the referenced tweet thread about someone finding this out for the first time:
In other news I updated my phone to iOS 15 and put it down to charge last night. When I woke up it was hot, and my battery has gone from 100% to 15% since 7:30am. I gotta get off this ecosystem.
"My phone's battery life has suddenly become much worse" sure sounds like a major impact to me.
That has nothing to do with this change. It doesn't even seem like they had their phone turned off for this to be in play anyway. The most likely answer is that they hit a bug in the new update or that they placed their phone off centered on a wireless charger. I'm not sure why the general public should care about rare bugs in day one updates which get patched pretty quick anyway.
The turned off pings use an ultra low power mode similar to the airtags which should last months on a "flat" battery.
The Chinese, Russians or Belarusians wouldn't agree with you. There's plenty of people there doing "illegal things". Why should you care? You never know when something can become illegal in the future or the social equivalent of cancelling. You might have made a joke that's not okay in the future, criticized a leader, read a book, played a game, used a VPN...
They have two use cases. You can use it to just click a link and close but the use case they go for is a full social media like reddit where the full features of an SPA make sense. Drive by viewers are probably lowest priority as they do not generate much revenue.
They were forced to go down this path as it was clear reddit would add their own image hosting and remove the need for imgur so the site would have to be self sustaining.
These kinds of things never work because people will come up with infinite dog whistle terms for blocked terms. Things like "egg plant", "13%", etc. You couldn't possibly block all of these things without blocking a lot of legitimate discussion.
Hmm. Tell that to our customers, who seem to think it effective enough to purchase. :)
I think that you are not aiming for 100% automated moderation with a tool like this. Rather, you are looking to screen out the obvious stuff as quickly as you can, and then escalate the iffy content up to humans. But I speculate a bit.
Since I'm not familiar with the Cleanspeak platform, happy to set up a call with you and our sales team. My contact info is in my profile. :)
egg plant is a dog whistle? It is the "official" name for my google account. I am Mr. plant. I don't associate anything with it aside from a vegetable I don't particularly like.
Silos work really well. Discord may have literal terrorist / hate groups on it, but as a user I do not see any of it and the platform only contains a group of my friends. There is no marketing, no spam, only content your friends have posted. And then discord can sit in the background deleting ToS violating groups while I don't see or care about any of it.
I have done this for years and it just works. You know these users give off a bad vibe and that others are put off by it. Just remove them and ignore the complaints from the user. They can find another space that accepts them. I don't even bother writing rules lists because they are pointless.
I do give warnings out first but usually that does nothing to change behavior anyway.
Eventually someone will come around and build a "Google docs FUSE" tool that stores arbitrary data in your system. I suspect this is the main reason Google switched docs to actually count against your usage. For normal users you can still store hundreds of millions of documents but it's pointless to encode data in it over just uploading it to drive.
