In fact, When I am done with my final exams, I am heading to Cambodia with 200 donated macs to teach blind students skills in voice over, with an NGO called Krusar thmey. The IT staff there is also blind and is excited to use the mac platform as they know a lot about its positives. See, I’m not so poised as to defend apple at all costs, including my own reasoning, nor am I bashing apple when they do good things. So far, with all the things I do on mac os, I can basically say that I don’t need any other platform for all the tasks required of me at home, study and work. And I’m very happy with the way accessibility has gone up thanks to the mac. I wouldn’t be doing my course were it not for my macbook and I wouldn’t be this independent weren’t it for the iphone OS.
This thread was to discuss over the fact that apple might be missing on this one very important tech which is A.I, whether deep learning or data aggregation to increase the precision of semantic algorithms, or to better searches when we use spotlight for example. All this requires access to our data, but this data is not required to be given to third parties. Way out from that, this data can be kept confidential between the gate keepers of our icloud accounts and our devices. What I am saying is that to totally deny the fact that big data is an important step to better software is to me a mistake. I like the fact that apple will keep my own personal data mine, and not for a bunch of peddlers to bother me constantly with what they think I want to buy. But the other aspects of data inclusion being omitted is no good, so I raised this. Am I to be lambasted for this? If y’all can’t take a debate and are simply consumers, then good on you. But as far as I know, some of you have taken personal affront as if you belonged to apple and so I find it ridiculous. Ridiculous as in taking a one sided perspective, probably also because of some of my past emails which always seem to be controversing some when it’s just my nature to be bluntly honest with no compromise. It has always taken me to where I want, and my freedom of choice, expression and action are very important to me. Maybe I’ll water my expressive self down so as not to offend anyone but hey, this would mean that there will be no discussion and therefore no evolution in any way. if this mailing list is just about a bunch of people telling each other how one software they found is accessible or some low level tech help stuff, then I will excuse myself and go to some more specialised mailing list. It’s alright. Not every opinion is for everyone. But seems there’s a lot of sheep and little inventors and creatives in here. Cheers, > On 6/06/2015, at 11:58 pm, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > What would you have us all do? If you are so concerned about the direction > Apple is headed, the smart thing for you to do is to donate all your Apple > possesions to your favorite charity and move on. > > You are out of line to come down on those of is who either do not share > your concerns or prefer to focus on other more productive tasks. Lighten up. > > From The Believer. . . > By way of the Chariots of the > Gods cameth the Aliens who > dwelt amongst the humans, > and bringeth much knowledge. > > On 6/5/2015 11:30 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: >> Again, y’all didn’t even get the essence of the concern. >> >> the concern is about apple adopting a technology or Artificial intelligence >> technique that other tech companies are adopting which will surpass what any >> of you can imagine. I can say this, being at the uni’s computer labs with >> other peers working and studying on artificial intelligence. You only see >> the crap google and facebook are trying to do to monetise their shit. The >> difference here, the nuance you were basically not able to catch, is that >> Mister Timmy, on the basis of privacy legalese, has not saught out to adopt >> deep learning, which requires data collection. If he went “we’re making sure >> your data is safe, and granularly reflect on which data should be anonimised >> but kept for the purpose of making your experience richer” then I wouldn’t >> be concerned. I am because he flatly went against any of these technologies. >> Hence the concern. >> >> man, some y’all are purely and simply blinded by all the hardware you buy >> and living only apple everyday of your lives. >> >> >> >>> On 6/06/2015, at 11:12 am, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> I do not know if many people, with brains that cannot comprehend >>> legalese, will take the time to read terms of service and user agreements >>> every time they are updated, if in fact they read them at all. >>> >>> I have no clue if Apple has me on the receiving end of anything but the >>> great produicts I own. I do not get gobs of spam that I need to opt out of >>> like one company whose cable services I no longer use but they cannot take >>> no for an answer, so now and them I must opt out yet again or continue to >>> get bucket loads of offers eqch month. >>> >>> Now that Paypal has split off from eBay as of July 1st, what I saw of >>> their new terms could be of great concern. >>> >>> In a nutshell, they state that if you do not agree to accept bucket loads >>> of spam via texts and robocalls, feel free to close your Paypal account. >>> >>> The virtual universe we live in is a wide open environment. Danger lurks >>> in every nanobyte. >>> >>> That said, of anyone is unhappy with Apple, or any other company, they >>> have a simple fix. Send everything to Davy Jone's Locker. >>> >>> From The Believer. . . >>> By way of the Chariots of the >>> Gods cameth the Aliens who >>> dwelt amongst the humans, >>> and bringeth much knowledge. >>> >>> On 6/5/2015 5:03 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >>>> Hang on a minute. You’re concerned about Apple’s continued business >>>> viability in spite of overwhelming evidence of their success, because >>>> unlike those guys over at Facebook and Google, they don’t make gobs of >>>> money by harvesting user data for free services, and your explaining your >>>> justifications by way of sources quoted by Business Insider? >>>> >>>> Just so there’s some sort of accessibility-related edge to this nonsense, >>>> I’d just like to say that I feel very fortunate indeed that the most >>>> accessible platform also respects my privacy the most of all the >>>> mainstream proprietary platforms. Sure, I think Timmy-boy is telling a >>>> little white one when he says they don’t collect user data—of course they >>>> do, and they would rather you used their iCloud and store services, and >>>> will if necessary take steps to accidentally rope you into the family. >>>> But honestly, I infinitely prefer the completely optional wallet rape you >>>> get from Apple to the completely involuntary data raping practices of >>>> FarceBook and the great chocolate factory in the sky. Those two companies >>>> make you the product in exchange for little tasty morsels of mediocrity, >>>> and have done more to harm personal privacy than any other organisation >>>> with the possible exception of the NSA and GCHQ. So if the suggestion >>>> here is that Apple should take my data in addition to their > ex >>> cessive margins, then the person suggesting it is all about the money, >>> plain and simple, and can sod right off. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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