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Originally Posted by macattack
It looks as if the purpose of this "evil" functionality is to protect the iPhone's users from applications that could send a phone's location information back over the internet. If iPhone users suddenly started receiving targeted advertising (via SMS, or otherwise), based on their current location, people would be crying foul as well. They'd demand that Apple should have seen this coming and built a system into the iPhone's software to prevent such "abusive" and "intrusive" use the devices GPS data.
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The problem with this is that Apple gets to decide what is "Evil" and end-users have no say in the matter. Perhaps Apple's view of evil is different than mine, or perhaps Apple decides this is a good way to lock out a product that offers similar services that they are making money off of. If the feature is truly intended to protect me, how about letting me decide if it's turned on or off. I don't need Apple, Microsoft or any other corporation deciding for me how to use a device I bought and paid for. If the intent is as benevolent as you imply, Apple could have easily added an on-off switch to the device settings, enabling me to decide if I want this monitored.
Once again, we see double standards on this sort of thing. "It's Apple, so they are protecting us from evil". If it was Microsoft, I suspect we would be hearing things differently.