There's no such thing as an "unbiased" take on anything — we're all standing somewhere, looking out.
True, except that the code will still be there on your device, and (as the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out) you're forced to trust Apple's promises about how and for what purpose they will/won't activate the it. Inactive spyware is obviously better than active spyware, but not installing it on the device in the first place is a better option.
Actually EFF is wrong in this case.
Thank you Tim. Those are all obvious points for those of us in IT, but I trust they will be helpful for others in the forum.
I actually do believe that Apple's acting in good faith right now — following Hanlon's Razor, it's likely incompetence/cluelessness rather than malace (plus ego — Apple always wants to do things differently so that they can claim to be better than everyone else, but it backfired hard this time).
I could rationalize it somewhat but hey, I bought 1 Rolex that doesn't keep any better time or is more water resistant than my dozen Seikos or Timex. I know some use the opposite reasoning. I could rationalize over the overheat shutdowns, my former iphones did that countless times, but as others would say and I agree, it's a safety feature not a bug. Maybe the finger swipe code? Has Apple added a similar feature yet. Does Apple offer anything Mil-Spec tough? They are 'da bomb IMHO.
I disagree. Scanning in the cloud affects only things I've chosen to share off my device (even though I still should have a reasonable expectation of privacy).
Recent posts have been about a major security and privacy debate in the news, not brand preference (normal thread drift).
I'd suggest just FltPlan Go on your Android phone as a backup. It has a clunky UI, but it's 100% free, uses much less CPU than Garmin Pilot or Foreflight (because it was designed for older devices), starts up fast, and is rock solid (in my experience) as a platform for basics like moving maps, geo-referenced approach plates, airport info, and flight planning.
Not a fan of the term myself. It's from the expression "sheeple" (people who blindly follow something, like sheep following a shepherd). "Sheeple" is on my list of trite, over-used terms, along with others like "cancel culture", "politically correct", "redneck", and "fascist" (unless the person is an actual fascist, which is rare these days). When you see any of those surface in a discussion, you know the intelligence meter is falling fast.
Well, I kind of know the answer, but it doesn’t make any sense. I don’t see many people buying iOS products blindly because that’s what the neighbors are doing. But I see LOTS of people eschewing Apple because they’re too cool, just like all of the cool kids at their work. So maybe there’s such a thing as a “Galaxy Sheep?”
What about the rabid, sensitive Open Source guys?
Android is an open-source mobile-device OS based on Linux; Samsung is a phone and tablet manufacturer that happens to use Android (with a lot of their own and Google's apps preinstalled).
I'm going for both hardware and software redundancy -- I have 2–3 Android devices with me on each flight, each of them running both Garmin Pilot and FltPlan Go. That's probably overkill, since I also have the panel-mounted GTN 650 with its own nav database and map, but it has come in handy (for example, once I messed up updating GP, but was able to switch seamlessly to FltPlan Go to open the plate for my approach).
I also was/am an Avare user, but since getting Garmin Connect ADS-B In, I gave Garmin Pilot a try for ADS-B weather which only sometimes works. They fix it in one version then in the next version it is broke again. Currently it does not work only traffic does. Most ADS-B weather works on Fltplan Go except radar.
Mine seems to work perfectly if I can get it to connect on Bluetooth. Seems I have to go through the pairing process every time and even that's a crapshoot. Seems to have a problem connecting to my tablet but starting pilot at a specific time in the process gets it going most of the time. But yeah, it's a pain in the arse getting it all going. Once I get connected it works as advertised.
They all do it. If you are against tracking and datamining, get a dedicated aviation tablet and turn off wifi.
That was more-or-less true until Apple's latest announcement that they're going to enable scanning apps on the user's device, with a weak excuse that it's to detect child porn being uploaded to iCloud (technically, it would be simpler and safer for user privacy to scan the file on the server side when it's being uploaded, like other cloud providers do, rather than breaching the privacy protection of the user's device).
What Garmin device are you pairing with, a GTX345? My bluetooth connects fine and shows connected, it gets traffic but no other weather. My Google Pixel phone is running Pilot 7.7.5 and it works, my Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite tablet was also working on the same version, but now with Pilot version 7.8.2 there is no ADS-B weather.