Comments on: Why users should be scared of Apple's new notification system

The company's new workaround to notifications from third-party apps in the latest iPhone is worth a closer look.

[sagecock]

Yikes. That giant smiley face is appropriately Orwellian.

[evanwolf]

I explore the Apple Push Notification Service more at http://skypejournal.com/blog/2008/06/3g_iphone_misses_continuity_of.html

[Morisot]

How come Apple can get away with what Microsoft got dragged into court for?

[Emmanuel_von_Angst]

uhhh because it's Apple and they do no wrong and are the cure for HIV, cancer and mange. Haven't you heard?

[b_baggins]

Good grief. Lose the tin foil hat. There is nothing to indicate Apple is planning any of the nefarious deeds you are ascribing to it. Nor do they have a history of doing the very things you are terrified they're going to start doing.

You're looking at the wrong company. There's one company with an explicit history of mining data for the sole purpose of selling advertisements, and they're making a free phone operating system.

If you should be worried about your data being tracked, look at google, not Apple.

[George Orwellian]

baggins wrote: "Lose the tin foil hat. There is nothing to indicate Apple is planning any of the nefarious deeds you are ascribing to it. Nor do they have a history of doing the very things you are terrified they're going to start doing."



Yes they have.



They had the iTunes MiniStore run automatically (you has to opt-out and weren't asked whether you wanted to), and Apple was sending out your songs and Apple ID (identifying you) to a "suggestion" service.



After much complaining, Apple reversed the opt-out policy to opt-in.



http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=4d161c41-5af0-42db-9254-b967ee88da5b&k=6770

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6126_102-0.html?forumID=10&messageID=1673864&threadID=150332



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