How long until my iPhone becomes 'self aware'...?
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So yesterday morning, my iPhone told me how long it would take to get to my place of work, and told me that there was no traffic problems on my route. Just before I left the house and got in my car.
In the afternoon, when I got back into my car at a petrol station, it told me how long it would take to get home from there, and what the traffic was like.
Unprompted.
I didn't ask it to tell me this, I haven't told it where I work, I've never used it for any route guidance, I've not told it where 'home' is.
New features of the last iOS update obviously....
But how long until its telling me to cheer up, or giving me advice about my sex life, or asking me why I even bother.....
(I'm writing this on a works computer, bit scared the iPhone will comment on here next...)
In the afternoon, when I got back into my car at a petrol station, it told me how long it would take to get home from there, and what the traffic was like.
Unprompted.
I didn't ask it to tell me this, I haven't told it where I work, I've never used it for any route guidance, I've not told it where 'home' is.
New features of the last iOS update obviously....
But how long until its telling me to cheer up, or giving me advice about my sex life, or asking me why I even bother.....
(I'm writing this on a works computer, bit scared the iPhone will comment on here next...)
My iPhone always does this. It think it just uses GPS and know's that at 8.15 every weekday morning I make the exact same journey. After work it always tells me it's xx minutes to home. Then if I get in my car at around 7-8 in the evening it will tell me it will take xx minutes to my girlfriends house.
SilverSpur said:
So yesterday morning, my iPhone told me how long it would take to get to my place of work, and told me that there was no traffic problems on my route. Just before I left the house and got in my car.
In the afternoon, when I got back into my car at a petrol station, it told me how long it would take to get home from there, and what the traffic was like.
Unprompted.
I didn't ask it to tell me this, I haven't told it where I work, I've never used it for any route guidance, I've not told it where 'home' is.
New features of the last iOS update obviously....
But how long until its telling me to cheer up, or giving me advice about my sex life, or asking me why I even bother.....
(I'm writing this on a works computer, bit scared the iPhone will comment on here next...)
It has been doing this for a while. In the afternoon, when I got back into my car at a petrol station, it told me how long it would take to get home from there, and what the traffic was like.
Unprompted.
I didn't ask it to tell me this, I haven't told it where I work, I've never used it for any route guidance, I've not told it where 'home' is.
New features of the last iOS update obviously....
But how long until its telling me to cheer up, or giving me advice about my sex life, or asking me why I even bother.....
(I'm writing this on a works computer, bit scared the iPhone will comment on here next...)
it knows where the phone is, and where it spends prolonged periods of time and starts regular patterns. So it assumes that the place it resides overnight is "home" and the place it resides during the day is "work"
it tells me on a Tuesday how long it will take me to get to the pub for quiz night (even though I always walk there) and for a while it used to tell me how long to get to the Mother in law's house on a Sunday when we were helping her move house etc.
Shakermaker said:
It has been doing this for a while.
it knows where the phone is, and where it spends prolonged periods of time and starts regular patterns. So it assumes that the place it resides overnight is "home" and the place it resides during the day is "work"
it tells me on a Tuesday how long it will take me to get to the pub for quiz night (even though I always walk there) and for a while it used to tell me how long to get to the Mother in law's house on a Sunday when we were helping her move house etc.
Bet its a good companion at the quiz tooit knows where the phone is, and where it spends prolonged periods of time and starts regular patterns. So it assumes that the place it resides overnight is "home" and the place it resides during the day is "work"
it tells me on a Tuesday how long it will take me to get to the pub for quiz night (even though I always walk there) and for a while it used to tell me how long to get to the Mother in law's house on a Sunday when we were helping her move house etc.
SilverSpur said:
Shakermaker said:
It has been doing this for a while.
it knows where the phone is, and where it spends prolonged periods of time and starts regular patterns. So it assumes that the place it resides overnight is "home" and the place it resides during the day is "work"
it tells me on a Tuesday how long it will take me to get to the pub for quiz night (even though I always walk there) and for a while it used to tell me how long to get to the Mother in law's house on a Sunday when we were helping her move house etc.
Bet its a good companion at the quiz tooit knows where the phone is, and where it spends prolonged periods of time and starts regular patterns. So it assumes that the place it resides overnight is "home" and the place it resides during the day is "work"
it tells me on a Tuesday how long it will take me to get to the pub for quiz night (even though I always walk there) and for a while it used to tell me how long to get to the Mother in law's house on a Sunday when we were helping her move house etc.
I'm not an Android fan, but my s
tty S3 Mini was doing this for me 3-4 years ago.
My iPhone doesn't (yet)
I for one don't fear a Skynet type uprising by the BILLION iPhones that Apple have made (they made their billionth iPhone a few days ago) - I can't fear an enemy that so readily self-destructs with the application of a small amount of water or gravity and runs out of power every 4-5 hours.
tty S3 Mini was doing this for me 3-4 years ago.My iPhone doesn't (yet)
I for one don't fear a Skynet type uprising by the BILLION iPhones that Apple have made (they made their billionth iPhone a few days ago) - I can't fear an enemy that so readily self-destructs with the application of a small amount of water or gravity and runs out of power every 4-5 hours.
Sheets Tabuer said:
My Android keeps telling me the how long it will take to get to Virgin active..
I'm not a fking member of Virgin active you bd phone!
I think it knows I'm fat.
lol its got all these photos of me stored and it hasn't told me to go to the gym yet so its either very polite or it knows I'll probably keel over if I hit the gym...I'm not a f
king member of Virgin active you bd phone!I think it knows I'm fat.
P-Jay said:
I'm not an Android fan, but my stty S3 Mini was doing this for me 3-4 years ago.
My iPhone doesn't (yet)
I for one don't fear a Skynet type uprising by the BILLION iPhones that Apple have made (they made their billionth iPhone a few days ago) - I can't fear an enemy that so readily self-destructs with the application of a small amount of water or gravity and runs out of power every 4-5 hours.
its all in the settings, somewhere. tty S3 Mini was doing this for me 3-4 years ago.My iPhone doesn't (yet)
I for one don't fear a Skynet type uprising by the BILLION iPhones that Apple have made (they made their billionth iPhone a few days ago) - I can't fear an enemy that so readily self-destructs with the application of a small amount of water or gravity and runs out of power every 4-5 hours.
My iPhone has been doing this for about the same length of time, since, whenever that iOS release with Apple Maps happened or soon afterwards...
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