In this last week, innumerable allegations have been made from variety of sources in the technology news world as they published infinite reports claiming that Apple’s iPhone and 3G-iPad locate user’s location discreetly. Apple was accused publicly for mutely keep an archive record of the location of its users of the mentioned devices. Apple had till now kept complete ignorant response to these allegations, and in fact it was completely non responsive to any query made in this regard.
Image via Wikipedia However, just today on 25th April, MacRumors has announced that this ignorant behavior has been suspended. In fact, according to their sources, Steve Jobs, the C.E.O of Apple Inc. has himself personally himself felt the need to finally respond an email inquiry in this regard. According to the website post, an email sent by an anxious user of iOS spoke extremely cordially investigating the authenticity of allegations.
He wrote it in his letter that:
“Steve,
Could you please explain the necessity of the passive location-tracking tool embedded in my iPhone? It’s kind of unnerving knowing that my exact location is being recorded at all times. Maybe you could shed some light on this for me before I switch to a Droid. They don’t track me.”
Could you please explain the necessity of the passive location-tracking tool embedded in my iPhone? It’s kind of unnerving knowing that my exact location is being recorded at all times. Maybe you could shed some light on this for me before I switch to a Droid. They don’t track me.”
Whereas later, the website also stated this email was responded by Mr. Jobs himself. It said:
“Oh yes they do. We don’t track anyone. The info circulating around is false.”
Certainly, it was never thought generally by the mainstream audience that Apple was actually ‘tracking’ anyone, which will be called stalking the users. But the controversy was initiated on the question that whether or not the iOS devices of Apple Inc. keep storing the locations of users, which also seemed to be a very true report for many. Whereas, the “false” query which Jobs apparently applied, mistakenly complains that perhaps Apple is in some way intentionally monitoring customers, which was not actually the case.
On the other hand, the first phrase of Mr. Jobs reply said that “yes they do” which looked like being to Google’s Android accordant to their conversation. One the Apple’s iOS devices were alleged to be vulnerably location-tracking system became published last week, another magazine The Guardian UK, also made the allegation to Google’s Android, which currently rules the market.
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