Apple sucks, don't succumb to iRape

Nobody really knows me, so no one here would understand my hatred of everything Apple. Rather than get into that, here are some new stories I've heard about (out of MANY) that remind me if Apple were a person, it'd be a fucking douche bag.

Besides their overpriced bullshit devices and OS, they have a locked down App Store. Apple will forbid a South Park app on grounds of obscenity (source), but a Gay Cure app has no objectionable material (source)? It's an app that supposedly will cure you of your gay illness (not a gay illness, as in, "man this flu is totally fucking gay", but being gay as the actual illness). So there was a panel of near FCC-level tightwads that took a look at this app and said, well surely nobody will have a problem with this, we're all Puritan homophobes after all.

Now granted, there are possible ulterior motives at work behind disallowing some apps (that are of a financial and non consensual violation of your holes nature). Still, neither of them makes their shit toys any more appealing. When my wife lost her last iPod, I made her by a walkman, she was simply amazed at how simple she can maintain her music now that it can stored as USB mass storage (and uninstall that girthy itunes). The Android experience I get is levels above the experience of having to mess around on an iPhone. Alright, so I got into it just a little, but oh well.

You got raped with an Old Geezer's cunt-apple?! No wai!!! :O

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

Nobody really knows me, so no one here would understand my hatred of everything Apple. Rather than get into that, here are some new stories I've heard about (out of MANY) that remind me if Apple were a person, it'd be a fucking douche bag.

Besides their overpriced bullshit devices and OS, they have a locked down App Store. Apple will forbid a South Park app on grounds of obscenity (source), but a Gay Cure app has no objectionable material (source)? It's an app that supposedly will cure you of your gay illness (not a gay illness, as in, "man this flu is totally fucking gay", but being gay as the actual illness). So there was a panel of near FCC-level tightwads that took a look at this app and said, well surely nobody will have a problem with this, we're all Puritan homophobes after all.

Now granted, there are possible ulterior motives at work behind disallowing some apps (that are of a financial and non consensual violation of your holes nature). Still, neither of them makes their shit toys any more appealing. When my wife lost her last iPod, I made her by a walkman, she was simply amazed at how simple she can maintain her music now that it can stored as USB mass storage (and uninstall that girthy itunes). The Android experience I get is levels above the experience of having to mess around on an iPhone. Alright, so I got into it just a little, but oh well.

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If only they'd make an Android sentence constructing app, you'd be sorted.

I think iTunes is probably the worst piece of software installed on my PC. True story.

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Originally Posted by Something Else

If only they'd make an Android sentence constructing app, you'd be sorted.

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I wouldn't need nor use one. I have the following three methods of writing at my disposal: scientific (proper); legal (very tightly, get my money back proper), and internet forum (parenthetical). I would have called the third one email, but I post more on forums than I write email (as far as word count goes). Your assumption has been invalidated, and I apologize for misleading you.

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I think iTunes is probably the worst piece of software installed on my PC. True story.

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I wouldn't even try to argue... unless you are on a Macbook running Jaguar, Leopard, or mauling kitty cat, then I would say it's your OS.
*or quicktime

Quicktime is even worse than iTunes, it's the most annoying piece of shit ever assembled.
And that shitty pathetic bonjour service.

The list could go on and on. Apple does crap software, that's a known fact. Just take a look at the latest Safari flaws.

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Quicktime is even worse than iTunes, it's the most annoying piece of shit ever assembled.
And that shitty pathetic bonjour service.

The list could go on and on. Apple does crap software, that's a known fact. Just take a look at the latest Safari flaws.

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I couldn't imagine locking myself down to Windows/Internet Explorer/Outlook/WMP(streamserver)/*insert any random app where you have a microsoft default*. And then on top of that, only be able to easily install apps (and alternatives) from a Microsoft approved list... err marketplace.

I kind of doubt anyone is reading the articles, but to clarify, the gay cure app was published by Exodus International. It's some religious fervor bullshit (and Apple is A-OK with that).

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Originally Posted by Something Else

If only they'd make an Android sentence constructing app, you'd be sorted.

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I wouldn't need nor use one. I have the following three methods of writing at my disposal: scientific (proper); legal (very tightly, get my money back proper), and internet forum (parenthetical). I would have called the third one email, but I post more on forums than I write email (as far as word count goes). Your assumption has been invalidated, and I apologize for misleading you.

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Why do you write like a spastic then. :unsure:

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If only they'd make an Android sentence constructing app, you'd be sorted.

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I wouldn't need nor use one. I have the following three methods of writing at my disposal: scientific (proper); legal (very tightly, get my money back proper), and internet forum (parenthetical). I would have called the third one email, but I post more on forums than I write email (as far as word count goes). Your assumption has been invalidated, and I apologize for misleading you.

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I posted about that the other day. Get with the programme.

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I wouldn't need nor use one. I have the following three methods of writing at my disposal: scientific (proper); legal (very tightly, get my money back proper), and internet forum (parenthetical). I would have called the third one email, but I post more on forums than I write email (as far as word count goes). Your assumption has been invalidated, and I apologize for misleading you.

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I posted about that the other day. Get with the programme.

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You quoted that post twice in a row, so it's obviously a mistake on your part. Since there is no correct context, no point was made...

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Originally Posted by Something Else

Why do you write like a spastic then. :unsure:

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You know, I've never been around any existence of a *British subculture to hear "spactic" used in any manner that doesn't mean "relating to muscular spasms" (e.g. spastic colon). But if I were asked to define it based on the way I've seen yourself and 2 others use it, I would say it's synonymous with witty, or maybe facetious. You also seem to be using it as a noun, which feels a little odd as well.

*British can be interchanged with any country, region or diaspora in which English is spoken with a funny little accent.

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Apple sucks, don't succumb to iRape

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The act of rape requires that it is against a person's will and I don't see anyone holding a knife to people's throats forcing them to do anything here.

I won an ipod nano once, it's pretty good. I downloaded itunes, but only so I could rip CDs, I never use the store, like. (Buy music? WTF lol, I'm not biggles ffs!) :dry:

Errr so yeah, itunes does the job too, gets the songs off the cds and onto the ipods without too much fuss. So yeah. good.

Never bought anything made by apple like, but can't complain.

Don't understand this hate for Apple, you can't say that they aren't one of the most innovative company of the last 10 years. :mellow:

I'm happy with all the mac os products I own, not that I praise Apple or anything. Really don't see how iTunes is such a bad program, it gets the job done for me...

All this haping and raping. It's not good for anybody.

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Originally Posted by Barbarossa

I won an ipod nano once, it's pretty good. I downloaded itunes, but only so I could rip CDs, I never use the store, like. (Buy music? WTF lol, I'm not biggles ffs!) :dry:

Errr so yeah, itunes does the job too, gets the songs off the cds and onto the ipods without too much fuss. So yeah. good.

Never bought anything made by apple like, but can't complain.

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Originally Posted by KFlint

Don't understand this hate for Apple, you can't say that they aren't one of the most innovative company of the last 10 years. :mellow:

I'm haping with all the mac os products I own, not that I praise Apple or anything. Really don't see how iTunes is such a bad program, it gets the job done for me...

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^Pretty much all that.

I used to despise iTunes. Hated, hated, hated, hated it. There's a few old threads around here where you could find me dishing out thorough rants about it. But when I started using iPhones back in '07, I was forced to use iTunes again, and not the current versions, that was like iTunes 3 and it was a heaping pile of laggy, crashing shit. But over the years they've fixed everything I disliked about it. I still use it with my current iPhone as well as to manage all my tunes and it's a pretty solid piece of software nowadays.

I also can't complain about Apple. In the rare instances I've had to call their customer service number, I've spoken to someone in my own country and they were the definition of customer service each time. They also make some pretty sweet laptops, but I just can't begin to justify the cost.

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All this haping and raping. It's not good for anybody.

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I had to check on google to find what haping meant, couldn't still figure and then : :pinch:

I have enjoyed my "fatboy" iPod Nano for years. It's a great player. My daughter has an iPod shuffle. She loves it. However, I also have a Creative Zen, and my family has an assortment of mp3 players.

My point is that I'm not a fanboy of any particular product. I use what I like, and what I feel works well. I enjoy certain Apple products, and there are others that I feel suck bawls. I feel the same way about Microsoft and other software companies and their products

I can't speak ill of iTunes since I have never used it. I've always used Floola to rip CDs and manage my iPod's music.

I'm not that fond of Steve Jobs. He comes off as a arrogant prick, and just rubs me the wrong way. However, he did help turn Apple around when he came back.

I don't feel like he's the next incarnation of Satan, tho. Jon Bon Jovi seems to feel different however: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20043351-71.html :dabs:


Peace, brotherdoobie

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All this haping and raping. It's not good for anybody.

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I had to check on google to find what haping meant, couldn't still figure and then : :pinch:

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:lol: :earl:

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

The act of rape requires that it is against a person's will and I don't see anyone holding a knife to people's throats forcing them to do anything here.

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Rape comes in different flavors. The one I'm describing is NOT the violent confrontational type. The kind I'm talking about is the one where you go out with a couple of friends, and you meet some of their friends who seem cool enough. After lots of drinking the night just feels naturally fun, until you start feeling funny over that last salty shot you had. It's not the "that tequila seemed bad" bad, but "I feel like I'm leaving my body" bad. You wake up in the back seat of your car with your pants and boxer briefs crumpled up behind the passenger seat. You reach back and there's dry crusted blood and semen all over your ass cheeks and legs... and that's when you realize... you spent the night with Steve Jobs.

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Don't understand this hate for Apple, you can't say that they aren't one of the most innovative company of the last 10 years. :mellow:

I'm happy with all the mac os products I own, not that I praise Apple or anything. Really don't see how iTunes is such a bad program, it gets the job done for me...

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Sure I can, Apple is not one of the most innovative companies in the last 10 years. They certainly didn't innovate technology, rather they designed and marketed successfully, then charged a ridiculously overpriced amount. That second thing is what people are really calling innovation, aka branded appeal, but that's been done by others in the past (put your own examples here, I'll give you some obvious ones... Nike, Rolex). Apple won't be the last to do it either, it's a scheme that will persist into the future, like what's happening now with "organic food". It impresses the simple minded, but as someone who has never been swept up with a brand and generally recognizes the population as manipulated sheep, it's just not impressive. So that would be why I CAN make the statement in the first sentence of my reply.

It was asked of me earlier, was there an incident in my past that lead me to be this way? Unfortunately yes, I grew up a very poor child. Because of this great misfortune, our family had always been forced to truly evaluate the worth or value of products compared to their price and make intelligent and well thought out decisions about consumer purchases. This was forced onto me at a young age, and I have also adopted this mentality. So while all the other kids were branded, I sought only the most comfortable clothing with a style I could personally agree with, and not any one piece of clothing over $10. I would get the Sega Genesis as the Saturns would come into play, get the PSOne 3-4 years after launch. I got all the same enjoyment, just later down the road. It's like avoiding the $13/mo to watch some excellent HBO show while it's first on, and just renting some 2 seasons at a blockbuster in one sitting (at least that's how I would have done it in the past).

Currently Apple is only riding its own marketing wave, their style is just an Apple style, their technology is not superseding (I could have sworn that's spelled with a 'c') any other technology, and they're still clinging to the same restrictive policies that have made their products shit in the past. Recently someone I know suffered from this affliction and spent $2000 on a laptop, when I could have easily found one with better hardware, a nice design, and ran a newer version of Linux on it (he was MS weary). This genuinely pains me, to see someone so fresh a victim, and only a little bit of time will pass before he realizes what a mistake it was, since I personally take it upon myself to show them better products at better prices after the fact. Yes, I am that much of a dick to my friends, it should make all the more sense of my exaggerated personality here.

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Don't understand this hate for Apple, you can't say that they aren't one of the most innovative company of the last 10 years. :mellow:

I'm happy with all the mac os products I own, not that I praise Apple or anything. Really don't see how iTunes is such a bad program, it gets the job done for me...

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Sure I can, Apple is not one of the most innovative companies in the last 10 years. They certainly didn't innovate technology, rather they designed and marketed successfully, then charged a ridiculously overpriced amount. That second thing is what people are really calling innovation, aka branded appeal, but that's been done by others in the past (put your own examples here, I'll give you some obvious ones... Nike, Rolex). Apple won't be the last to do it either, it's a scheme that will persist into the future, like what's happening now with "organic food". It impresses the simple minded, but as someone who has never been swept up with a brand and generally recognizes the population as manipulated sheep, it's just not impressive. So that would be why I CAN make the statement in the first sentence of my reply.

It was asked of me earlier, was there an incident in my past that lead me to be this way? Unfortunately yes, I grew up a very poor child. Because of this great misfortune, our family had always been forced to truly evaluate the worth or value of products compared to their price and make intelligent and well thought out decisions about consumer purchases. This was forced onto me at a young age, and I have also adopted this mentality. So while all the other kids were branded, I sought only the most comfortable clothing with a style I could personally agree with, and not any one piece of clothing over $10. I would get the Sega Genesis as the Saturns would come into play, get the PSOne 3-4 years after launch. I got all the same enjoyment, just later down the road. It's like avoiding the $13/mo to watch some excellent HBO show while it's first on, and just renting some 2 seasons at a blockbuster in one sitting (at least that's how I would have done it in the past).

Currently Apple is only riding its own marketing wave, their style is just an Apple style, their technology is not superseding (I could have sworn that's spelled with a 'c') any other technology, and they're still clinging to the same restrictive policies that have made their products shit in the past. Recently someone I know suffered from this affliction and spent $2000 on a laptop, when I could have easily found one with better hardware, a nice design, and ran a newer version of Linux on it (he was MS weary). This genuinely pains me, to see someone so fresh a victim, and only a little bit of time will pass before he realizes what a mistake it was, since I personally take it upon myself to show them better products at better prices after the fact. Yes, I am that much of a dick to my friends, it should make all the more sense of my exaggerated personality here. I'm a cheap bastard.

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-doobs

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Originally Posted by brotherdoobie

I don't feel like he's the next incarnation of Satan, tho. Jon Bon Jovi seems to feel different however: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20043351-71.html :dabs:

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That says he called Jobs, "personally responsible for killing the music business." You can't argue with the enormous success of iTunes or the numbers it's put up. What a moran.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/a...way-to-the-ba/

It seems someone read this thread.
That gay's cure app was removed: http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/apple-removes-gay-cure/

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It seems someone read this thread.
That gay's cure app was removed: http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/apple-removes-gay-cure/

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The news of it spread rather rapidly, after all there's a lot of tech (err prog) people out there that despise the app approval process. So when they pull some shit like this, word gets around quickly. It was an inflammatory decision made by Apple given the context. I didn't doubt it was going to be removed either, but it doesn't undo the fact that they reviewed it and found nothing objectionable.

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I'm a cheap bastard.

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/fixed.
My 3rd grade book report

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I have two rules when thinking of buying new technology: don't buy it until it's been out at least a few years (the time it takes to iron out the kinks), and then pore over Which? magazine to get the best model for me. I seem to remember Creative came out on top on price and value for money last time I bought an MP3 player and that's why I bought a Zen XFi, but I would get an Apple product if it rated well. Most of the anti-Apple brigade are just contrarians who believe they are purer and more whole human beings when separating themselves from mere mortals and do not wish to sedate themselves with 'the opiates of the masses'. Sometimes they ponder on their individuality as they sit on tube trains listening to RATM loudly on their non-Apple MP3 players, sneaking furtive, hopeful glances at the women sat in the carriage also, wondering if these women have any idea they are sat right next to greatness. They don't though, because all they see is a pathetic scrawny web designer with bad tattoos on his puny arms, wanking over his own brilliance.

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Most of the anti-Apple brigade are just contrarians who believe they are purer and more whole human beings when separating themselves from mere mortals and do not wish to sedate themselves with 'the opiates of the masses'

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Though I am personally above mere mortals, and revel in contrarianism, they're surprisingly not the reason I'm anti-Apple. That might qualify for other companies with a much broader spectrum, but Apple is just too specific. They have:
iPod - MP3/music/video player
iPhone - a touch screen phone with iOS
Macbook - a laptop
iPad - tablet computer on iOS
then the less successful Apple TV (media device) and desktop (a computer that is harder to move around than a laptop).
So, for each of these Apple devices, there are numerous devices that are much more versatile, equipped, and cheaper than their iCounterparts.

What I am contrary to, is the idea that the iVersion of any of these product classes is the top of the class. Even if they sell more, it doesn't make them the better purchase...

I remember a few professors going on about when they do presentations, they must have a Macbook. As if it was some faux pas to connect your PC laptop to the projector when travelling. It was slightly based on the concept the video-out port, like it was some voodoo to make a signal to the projector. So essentially, you're paying an EXTRA $1000 to avoid learning how Windows handles external displays (though admittedly I don't really like XP's method/reliance on CCC or nVidia control panel for cloning displays in some situations). Just shit like that bothers me.

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Cheap simply brings more choices, and the ability to do more that matters to you (extra projects around the house).

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That's what we are doing, and I am literally scrambling to get the best deals on every single item so that we can get these major renovations done. I'm freakin' swamped.

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Cheap simply brings more choices, and the ability to do more that matters to you (extra projects around the house).

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That's what we are doing, and I am literally scrambling to get the best deals on every single item so that we can get these major renovations done. I'm freakin' swamped.

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Botched quote or over my head?

http://i.imgur.com/DEuAG.jpg

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I have two rules when thinking of buying new technology: don't buy it until it's been out at least a few years (the time it takes to iron out the kinks), and then pore over Which? magazine to get the best model for me. I seem to remember Creative came out on top on price and value for money last time I bought an MP3 player and that's why I bought a Zen XFi, but I would get an Apple product if it rated well. Most of the anti-Apple brigade are just contrarians who believe they are purer and more whole human beings when separating themselves from mere mortals and do not wish to sedate themselves with 'the opiates of the masses'. Sometimes they ponder on their individuality as they sit on tube trains listening to RATM loudly on their non-Apple MP3 players, sneaking furtive, hopeful glances at the women sat in the carriage also, wondering if these women have any idea they are sat right next to greatness. They don't though, because all they see is a pathetic scrawny web designer with bad tattoos on his puny arms, wanking over his own brilliance.

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To be fair, that mindset describes Mac fanatics perfectly, too. The "Window lickers" just happened to adopt it after years of constantly hearing the "MacNuggets perpetual hyperbole.

How have you been, btw. I hope well.

-doobs

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To be fair, that mindset describes Mac fanatics perfectly, too. The "Window lickers" just happened to adopt it after years of constantly hearing the "MacNuggets perpetual hyperbole.

How have you been, btw. I hope well.

-doobs

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Afternoon hunny x
Well in the body if not well in the head. You know how it is!

http://filesharingtalk.com/nzbs/tv/w...AC2.0-H.264-MC

To quote the splendid current iadvert

If you don't have an iphone how the fuck can we trace your every move!

Or something like that.

If that worries you, then you probably don't want to read this, or put the mac address of your wifi router into here.

Alternatively if you think that it might be quite a nice feature to have your phone show you how to get somewhere, or even locate where you are when you're lost, read it in the knowledge that without infrastructure like this, all those things become much less accurate and much more prone to error.

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If that worries you, then you probably don't want to read this, or put the mac address of your wifi router into here.

Alternatively if you think that it might be quite a nice feature to have your phone show you how to get somewhere, or even locate where you are when you're lost, read it in the knowledge that without infrastructure like this, all those things become much less accurate and much more prone to error.

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My phone is not that smart so it doesn't bother me overly. It does rather seem though that our technology is a two edged sword if in the wrong hands.

Doesn't matter how smart your phone is, the network provider can pinpoint you down to about 10 metres anyway. That's how the emergency services know where you are should you ever call them on a mobile.

Newer technology is just extending location services to everyone, and of course the only way phone manufacturers can do that (across multiple network providers in multiple countries) is to create their own geo-location system, using cell location, and wifi hotspot locations. Lots of phones come with GPS, but that drains the battery quite quickly, so wifi and cell location systems are far less draining to use. But of course they need a big database of where the cells and wifi hot spots are for it to be able to work. That's all this is. Apple should really change their iPhones to be an opt-in system (like Google), but they're Apple so I wouldn't hold your breath for that. They have already committed to fix the never ending location cache that the iPhone keeps, reducing it down to 7 days. As well as committing to fix other issues with it.

Google maps whips every SatNav systems arse on an Android system, the Apple map system isn't so good for navigation, but has this wonderful compass capability built into it, so it can actually show you which way you're facing on the map. I think it's good stuff.

All technology is a double edged sword, always has been, and always will be.

Especially two edged swords