Doesn’t Mac have something similar to Recall that they caught less flack for? I wouldn’t trust Apple over Microsoft, they both want your data, Apple just has a façade of privacy awareness that they use to make sure others can’t get their users data too
Mac used to have Time Machine, which was an automated, timed backup system. I think it was deprecated in the latest build? I never used it (only been a Mac user since 2023). I seem to remember hearing that Time Machine volumes — drives set up for that express purpose — were not going to be supported in the new version, which came out last month.
I don’t remember Apple ever catching flak for Time Machine though, so we may be thinking of different things.
So yes, as previously established by someone else, Apple collects telemetry like the rest of them. They don’t sell it to marketers though. They are still a computer/hardware company, not an advertising company (though, they do run ads).
If you’re a gamer and you recognise that macOS is the worst computer platform for gaming, that’s fine, but tell it to a gaming community. You’re in a privacy community. I’m a gamer, but read the room. Not everyone in a privacy community is a gamer willing to sell privacy for a platform more friendly to gaming.
The article you linked says rewind 3rd party, opt in, and stored locally. I don’t think anyone would have an issue with microsoft’s AI either if it was opt in and without telemetry.
Doesn’t Mac have something similar to Recall that they caught less flack for? I wouldn’t trust Apple over Microsoft, they both want your data, Apple just has a façade of privacy awareness that they use to make sure others can’t get their users data too
Mac used to have Time Machine, which was an automated, timed backup system. I think it was deprecated in the latest build? I never used it (only been a Mac user since 2023). I seem to remember hearing that Time Machine volumes — drives set up for that express purpose — were not going to be supported in the new version, which came out last month.
I don’t remember Apple ever catching flak for Time Machine though, so we may be thinking of different things.
So yes, as previously established by someone else, Apple collects telemetry like the rest of them. They don’t sell it to marketers though. They are still a computer/hardware company, not an advertising company (though, they do run ads).
If you’re a gamer and you recognise that macOS is the worst computer platform for gaming, that’s fine, but tell it to a gaming community. You’re in a privacy community. I’m a gamer, but read the room. Not everyone in a privacy community is a gamer willing to sell privacy for a platform more friendly to gaming.
The article you linked says rewind 3rd party, opt in, and stored locally. I don’t think anyone would have an issue with microsoft’s AI either if it was opt in and without telemetry.
Recall is meant to run and store locally. The pushback was around Microsoft likely changing this policy in the future, otherwise it’s the same thing.