[LINK] apple phone data collection - just a bug

[Richard Chirgwin]

PR's answer: release the white iPhone, right now.

Google News -  White iPhone - 2,267 stories plus.

It's hard to get a metric on how many "Apple Tracking" stories there are 
now accepting the "bug" line - there's a couple of thousand iPhone 
tracking stories but they go back much further than today's white iPhone 
story.

So the bottom line, from the festering pile of dung that is "Apple 
Journalism", is that a new phone colour is more important than (a) 
whether the tracking was a feature or a bug, and (b) whether there's any 
reason to trust the "it was a bug" statement.

(shakes head sadly)

RC

On 28/04/11 5:53 PM, Fred Pilcher wrote:
> Jan wrote:
>
>> Apple denies intentionally tracking iPhone
>> locations and has promised that new software will
>> be available to fix the bug in the coming weeks.
> Tr: "Oh oh - we've been caught. Quick - somebody call PR!"
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