Apple helps husband find locaton of wife as she cheats?

Man catches wife cheating with Apple’s “Find my Friends” app
[Via Edible Apple]

By Josh Rosenthall:

In conjunction with the release of iOS 5, Apple last week released “Find My Friends”, a new app which enables iPhone users to track the location of friends who have agreed to share their location data with a trusted group of people.

When Apple introduced the feature at their iPhone 4S media event, some of the use-cases proffered included finding friends when meeting up at the beach and tracking the location of road-tripping friends coming to see you to make sure they haven’t veered off course.

But with location sharing comes a number of important privacy issues. To this end, Find My Friends only works when a user agrees to share his/her location information.

But what happens when an iPhone toting user isn’t aware that his/her location is being shared?

Such was the case with a New York man who got his wife an iPhone 4S and enabled location sharing. Upon tracking her, he found her outright lying about her whereabouts, confirming his earlier suspicions that she was cheating on him – thought that point is purely circumstantial.

He posted the following synopsis on a MacRumors forum thread.

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Maybe it is faked but it certainly makes a great urban legend.

Preventing people from voting is no joke

“that one American would even think to deprive another American
[Via Dave Winer's linkblog feed]

“that one American would even think to deprive another American of their vote, is well un-American, in the extreme”

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Dave and I disagree about many things but the things we often agree on are things that are very basic and very American.

I do not find Huckabee’s humor anything but mean-spirited, especially since the GOP in many states is doing what it can to disenfranchise legitimate voters.

A Capitalist Reformation may be just what we need

JOURNAL: A Capitalist Reformation?
[Via Global Guerrillas]

Here is some thinking that you might find interesting.  Remember, history rhymes but doesn’t repeat.

Here’s a simplification of the historical pattern of Reformation.  Think of it in terms of the global Capitalist system:

• Universal system.
• Compliance and participation enforced by violence.
• Bureaucratic and lethargic.  Corrupt and unfair.  Hardship and misery.
• Loss of legitimacy.
• Challenged by reformers.  Corruption exposed.
• New technology unleashes a cacophony of criticism.
• Reforms are rejected by the existing bureaucracy.
• New, competitive systems are launched.
• An exodus begins.  People leave the old system to join the new.
• The old system fights back.  It reforms itself.
• A fight ensues between the old and the new.
• Eventually a peace is achieved and a new era begins.

Note that a Reformation doesn’t mean complete rejection of the current system.  It means a rejection of the existing implementation/hierarchy/rules due to corruption, failure, and injustice.

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I think he has some interesting points. The system itself does not need to be rejected – just the corrupting aspects of it.

And I think technology and the advances it brings in leveraging social networks will be driving this.

Just as with Martin Luther, people want a fairer system, one not so beholden to the corruption of its officials.

So, will there be a MArtin Luther for this Reformation or will it continue to be the leaderless one seen in Occupy Wall Street?

MS still trying to catch up to Apple

Steven Sinofsky accidentally discovers Mac OS X through extensive research
[Via RoughlyDrafted Magazine]

Daniel Eran Dilger Steven Sinofsky, the man leading Microsoft’s design of Windows 8, has been busy posting extensive blog entires detailing how the company has arrived at design decisions for its upcoming release of its new PC operating system next year. In his latest, he explains how extensive user interviews and research labs were able used [...]

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As one commenter mentioned, the MS innovation, while showing 7 applications – the same number as the Mac– is larger and not nearly as informative.

There is a reason Jobs has such an attention to detail. It permitted Apple to produce an OS that MS is still trying to catch up to.

Mac OS X essentially runs on all its mobile devices and hardware offerings. Not true for Windows. Different OS for different devices.

Nice video for Jobs’ day

Nothing to add.