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<blockquote data-quote="mackerr" data-source="post: 26585" data-attributes="member: 307">Re: Contemporary Culture Loses My RespectI think following Apple&#039;s response today there is a simple solution. I admit I am a longtime Apple fan, but I also admit I think the &quot;it&#039;s a bug&quot; line is lame. Even if it is a bug, it should have been explained better. However the explanation of what the data is, and how it is used is good. I think that now that they are going to shorten the time frame of the tower and hotspot location data they should also increase the radius that the date encompasses. Since the data is locations submitted by all iPhone users who have connected to those locations, they should make the radius of the data 100 miles. That would make it useless for locating a phone by looking at the tower location since it would be over 3000 square miles, but would still provide the phone with accurate location data of the cells and hotspots it is near when it needs to send its location. Since the database would only be a week&#039;s worth of data instead of years worth it shouldn&#039;t be a hell of a lot bigger.Mac</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mackerr, post: 26585, member: 307"] Re: Contemporary Culture Loses My Respect I think following Apple's response today there is a simple solution. I admit I am a longtime Apple fan, but I also admit I think the "it's a bug" line is lame. Even if it is a bug, it should have been explained better. However the explanation of what the data is, and how it is used is good. I think that now that they are going to shorten the time frame of the tower and hotspot location data they should also increase the radius that the date encompasses. Since the data is locations submitted by all iPhone users who have connected to those locations, they should make the radius of the data 100 miles. That would make it useless for locating a phone by looking at the tower location since it would be over 3000 square miles, but would still provide the phone with accurate location data of the cells and hotspots it is near when it needs to send its location. Since the database would only be a week's worth of data instead of years worth it shouldn't be a hell of a lot bigger. Mac [/QUOTE]

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