> They were planned to make your private information into a commodity.
Are you seriously suggesting then when Apple launched the iPhone it was a plan to spy on you?
Are you seriously suggesting then when Apple launched the iPhone it was a plan to spy on you?
[1] http://www.cellphonedigest.net/news/2008/08/iphone_3g_has_a_...
[2] https://venturebeat.com/2013/09/09/nsa-calls-iphone-users-zo...
[3] https://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-the-039-Warden-039-of-...
Tim Apple is likely in bed with the NSA. For sure everything is backdoored and in 20/30 years time there will be some heroic Snowden type who'll leak what everyone has known but gets called a foil wearing conspiracist.
Grapes are delicious.
With regards to the aims of Apple, Google et al - yes I think they wanted to spy on us from the start. It has always been about better governance of the masses. Corporation owners think they own us - everything we are provided with is only done with a view for them to apply greater governance of us. Historically, it would have been expedient to use stories (religions) to do this, then debt, and now technology.
Bringing us to the present, if you ask me, the virus we are apparently experiencing, is just a pretext. It is just another story, that leverages us into a technocracy. They want to boot up a technocratic system that we will all live in from cradle to grave, unaware and unable to do anything about our circumstances. This has been planned since the 1930's - IBM shared work space with Technocracy Inc as it was known then.
We are spending our time online, shopping online, isolated, dependent on corporations for the news, our food, intermediating our experiences, etc. We are sold on the future, Elon's neural lace, augmented reality, smart metering/cities, etc. I'm not joking when I say it seems to me that these plans are so progressed, and everyone is so on board, that the human experiment must surely come to an end soon. It will be a great reset, but we're not going to like it.
PS Here's a good article from 2016: https://www.technocracy.news/global-smart-grid-technocracys-...
This wasn't all of a sudden. In 1999, I already had a Palm PDA with touchscreen, pen and handwriting recognition. Digital cameras also existed, but were limited by storage size and power efficiency. Handheld color screens were a commodity since the Gameboy Color in 1998, and had existed since the Atari Lynx in 1989.
All of those technologies already existed before the iPhone came along. The limiting factor, before 2005, was silicon (transistor) density and power draw, which also saw gradual increases (Moore's Law), not a leap. After 2005 or so, the processors became powerful enough to support a generic OS and that allowed all those technologies to be combined in a single device.
In my memory this was a bit different though, or more nuanced at least. There was progress towards smartphones starting halfway the 90s, then somewhere around 2000 there was internet access and the first devices with mail/GPS maps etc came out. Then the first iPhone came, and indeed it was a big step, but cdefinitely not out of nowhere: most or all of the tech itself was already there. Just less polished and not always all of it in the same device.
I was around when it came out. There was no staggering leap. The first iPhone was nowhere near desktop power and the camera wasn’t meaningfully better than what was available in other high-end “feature phones” or the blackberry.
The major breakthrough was the real browser and the capacitive touchscreen. It didn’t even have an App Store.