I hereby claim:
- I am dwb on github.
- I am dwb (https://keybase.io/dwb) on keybase.
- I have a public key whose fingerprint is 406A 4E7C B210 6201 3E24 EE3E F52A CDCD 146B B715
To claim this, I am signing this object:
// | |
// RecordAudio.swift | |
// | |
// This is a Swift 3.0 class | |
// that uses the iOS Audio Unit v3 API and RemoteIO Audio Unit | |
// to record audio input samples, | |
// (should be instantiated as a singleton object.) | |
// | |
// Created by Ronald Nicholson on 10/21/16. | |
// Copyright © 2016 HotPaw Productions. All rights reserved. |
I hereby claim:
To claim this, I am signing this object:
Read, if you haven't already, Apple's Commitment to Customer Privacy. It's an apparent denial of shady involvement in U.S. govenerment programmes of snooping on people's data in a wide and varied way. It may or may not use some precise language to the effect that it's not denying quite as much as it is at first glance, but that's not what jumped out at me.
It's fast becoming a cliché that if you're not paying money for something, you're not the customer. Google's free services, for example: since you don't pay for a Gmail account you are being shown adverts, the companies behind which being the real customers. The user's attention is sold for ad space. In Apple's statement, they make plain who their customers are, and whose interests they have most at heart. Apple charges users for services, and so they get treated as valued customers (well, that's the plan anyway).
It is massively in Google's interests to l