Not sure NOW is a good time to announce you can track women's cycles based on their temperature in the new smart watch, Apple. Not exactly a selling point at this time.
That's like when my tracker says stupid shit like, "you'll get your period sometime in the next two weeks!" Like that's helpful. I'm always like, are there not women on this team? 😂😂😂👍
Yeah. I'm in a safe state. And Apple seems to be pretty good about privacy but I'm not technically savvy enough to know just how good etc. But like... still does seem tone deaf to not at least address privacy. I mean, maybe they did in the entire presentation. I only read highlights and didn't see anything.
They're a global company though, with hundreds of millions of customers who are not in the USA. Why is it tone deaf of them because one country can't get it's shit together?
But, it would have been tone deaf at other times than just, "... at this time..." for them introduce these kinds of health features if you're talking globally
(Apple is far from perfect (they're downright shitty about some things), but they do go on and on and on and on and on about their privacy features, especially about health data. It's how they've chosen to differentiate themselves from Google/Android.
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: From a technical perspective their privacy and security mechanisms seem to be well designed. Ultimately we can't know for sure how well they adhere to their stated principles. I would say though, that they are heavily incentivized to deliver on their promises.
I feel less uncomfortable with them than I do with anyone else (I also suffer no illusion that their posture toward privacy is ultimately anything other then self serving)
I always thought the air tag drama was super dumb because the only reason apple got flack for it is because they had the only one that beeped to warn you it was there. Durrrrr
I've been using Apple's health features in my phone for a few years now. I certainly don't implicitly trust Apple (they are a corporation after all) but when it comes to privacy and data security they've generally done a good job. I think the temperature sensor stuff will be ok, too.
Apple planned the temperature sensor stuff long before all the SCOTUS madness this summer. My guess is they were going to release it this year no matter what.
I used to work in a doctor's office and wholly, wholly agree. You think people who work in medicine are smart but you would be mistaken! at least in this sense.
But, it would have been tone deaf at other times than just, "... at this time..." for them introduce these kinds of health features if you're talking globally
(I also suffer no illusion that their posture toward privacy is ultimately anything other then self serving)