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Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?

Do you trust apple with their claims?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Makes a lot of sense until the closed source affirmation. The source code of the OS they develop is closed source, but a lot of what they do is open source and independantly audited by experts, so there's that in the balance.

Windows is just a pile of trash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

What that Apple does is Open Source? This is the first time I've read this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Swift, Webkit, Researchkit, Carekit, FoundationDB, CUPS, Darwin, LLVM and Clang, SwiftNIO, Turi Create, Homekit ADK,

Its one thing to be against a product but its essential to be well informed and not base our perceptions on biased informations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with all of them, but I know several of them are tools. Isn't it in apple's best interest to open source the tools if people use and improve them, and subsequently it means they get more money from the app store? And if these are the only things they open source, they still have a tight fist on the vast majority of their code base.

While on the subject of apple and FOSS. They may open source some tools, but do they give back to other projects? I.e. does apple push upstream? Substantially less than google and ms. And I would go so far to say almost never.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You're diverging from the main subject from what is open source to what you find acceptable behaviour from a corporation, which i do not involve in.

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