iOS

Apple Inc. and You by Richard

If you got an iPhone then you are aware that Apple knows alot about you. You can run, but you can't hide!

Your identity

Apple knows your age, name, gender, date of birth, marital status, email address, telephone number, zip code, city, state, country and home address as soon as you register for an Apple account.

Your credit card information

Apple has your credit card information since you buy applications, music and movies from iTunes and the App Store.

Your outdoor location

Apple uses the GPS, Cell Tower Triangulation and WiFi access points in your iOS device to know your current and frequent locations.

Your indoor location

Apple uses iBeacon or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for micro-location geofencing, a highly accurate monitoring system for locating you inside buildings and malls at least in the US.

Your behaviour

Your purchases allow Apple to understand you and your behaviours as well as when you buy, how much you buy, what triggers your buying behaviors, just look at what the Genius recommendation service does.

Your movement

Apple’s new M7 movement coprocessor uses your device’s accelerometer, compass and gyroscope to keep track of your motion. It knows when you’re running, walking, driving and even sleeping.

Your health

Several apps monitor your heartbeat and how you sleep, as well as your blood sugar level and more depending on your apps.

Your face

Apple knows how you look since the pictures that are taken with your iOS device are stored on their iCloud servers. Apple can run these images through facial recognition algorithms and recognize you.

Your family & friends

Apple knows your family and friends since you are connected with your iOS device are stored on facebook, google+, LinkedIn...

Your voice

Apple stores your questions, messages and stern commands which you whisper to Siri for up to two years.

Your fingerprint

Apple stores your fingerprint in order for you to unlock your device and for prompt payments on iTunes and the App store.

...and FYI Apple join US government’s PRISM data mining program.

Next iPhone Will Track You by Richard

Apple's new operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 7, will track your movements and save your "frequent locations". I recently downloaded iOS 7,4 to my iPhone and discovered that iPhone logs my complete movements. In order to change this new default setting:

  1. Settings →
  2. Privacy →
  3. Location Services →
  4. System Services (at the bottom) →
  5. Frequent Locations

 Frequent Locations feature that tracks your GPS coordinates to learn about places you visit often seemingly to give you suggestions of nearby places but I am finding it more PRISM-style than helpful.

Here are my latest movements, if you ask Apple... 

rotten apples by Richard

Apple's greed is obvious lately, especially when you look at their their exchange rates. 

You can also notice their greed in some updates of the latest iOS operating systems, more features that used to be separate applications are incorporated into the core of what a smartphone does.

Weather prediction, photo, calendars, contact management and call-CTRL all used to be separate applications made by separate vendors. Slowly, they were built into the smartphone operating system and the applications quickly fell out of use. 

Apple's exchange rates are somehow different from the global foreign exchange markets, or? The official exchange rate the same day was $0,99 equal 6.73 Kr, and not 9.- Kr! Or is it just a convenient bug in their systems.

Here is the same app for sale, in SEK and USD the same day, in the US and Swedish Appstore:

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