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...)
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.
Sheets Tabuer said:
My Android keeps telling me the how long it will take to get to Virgin active..
I'm not a f
king 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.
Trabi601 said:
SilverSpur said:
So whats the next big advance in mobile phone tech that's going to make us go 'oh wow' or even perhaps 'oh fek!'?
Targeted and location specific advertising.I've been talking about this at work recently.
In theory, as someone approaches one of our outlets, we could send an offer to their phone to encourage them to stop there. Don't think anyone has had the bottle to implement it yet, though.
And I had. Not much different I guess. (and was about 7 years ago!)
Sadly it wasn't an Alfa 8C. or any other car....
Haven't received such push advertising since though..
gottans said:
Interesting thread, I think it highlights the lack of informed consent for the data collection about you.
The statements of 'it suddenly started doing this' highlight that people haven't understood the effect of accepting software/application updates and what is being agreed to.
I'm not arguing for or against the technology as some people find it useful and others do not. Personally I don't like it but accept mobile devices need a certain amount of location info to route calls, etc but don't need a gps fix to achieve this.
If people understand what is happening and give informed consent that is fine but when it happens without consent or do not understand they have given consent that isn't fine.
I suspect most people don't understand and are being turned into a product and monetised for someone else's profit.
I agree totally mate. I've got no problems with what is going on this far, but that's because I dont understand the scope of the data being recorded, as it's not disclosed. I'm certainly so far not afraid of it, but these things seem to sneak up on you don't they? The statements of 'it suddenly started doing this' highlight that people haven't understood the effect of accepting software/application updates and what is being agreed to.
I'm not arguing for or against the technology as some people find it useful and others do not. Personally I don't like it but accept mobile devices need a certain amount of location info to route calls, etc but don't need a gps fix to achieve this.
If people understand what is happening and give informed consent that is fine but when it happens without consent or do not understand they have given consent that isn't fine.
I suspect most people don't understand and are being turned into a product and monetised for someone else's profit.
My phone started doing this last week. I've no idea what I did to suddenly enable this feature which others have said has been around for some time.
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