I'm not paranoid but, how smart are smartphones?

[I'm With Stupid]

In terms of the number of instructions per second, smartphones are more powerful than the combined computing power of NASA in 1969. In fact a single iPhone 6 could guide 120,000,000 Apollo era spacecraft to the moon simultaneously.

Not with Apple Maps they couldn't.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Your phone is the least of your worries.

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[Ifwecouldjust.......]

In terms of the number of instructions per second, smartphones are more powerful than the combined computing power of NASA in 1969. In fact a single iPhone 6 could guide 120,000,000 Apollo era spacecraft to the moon simultaneously.

The moon landing had the computing power of a stylophone.

 

[che_don_john]

Couple of weeks ago I went on a trip to Budapest to see some mates. Booked my flights - 09/08/19 to 11/08/19 - and then forwarded the confirmation e-mail to my wife, who is Canadian, a couple of days before I was due to leave.

Her iphone tried to be 'smart' by extracting the information from this e-mail and putting the flights in her calender - except of course, that her phone/account has Canadian settings.

"Why have you booked to fly out in September and coming back in November?", she asked. Cue me nearly shitting myself, thinking I'd booked the wrong dates. But, of course, it was just her phone wrongly interpreting the date format.

So I'd say not so smart after all.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Couple of weeks ago I went on a trip to Budapest to see some mates. Booked my flights - 09/08/19 to 11/08/19 - and then forwarded the confirmation e-mail to my wife, who is Canadian, a couple of days before I was due to leave.

Her iphone tried to be 'smart' by extracting the information from this e-mail and putting the flights in her calender - except of course, that her phone/account has Canadian settings.

"Why have you booked to fly out in September and coming back in November?", she asked. Cue me nearly shitting myself, thinking I'd booked the wrong dates. But, of course, it was just her phone wrongly interpreting the date format.

So I'd say not so smart after all.

A perfect example of how technology is only as clever as the idiot that programmed it. Lol!

Some other idiot will one day allow this code logic into determining something more serious and it will cause a major problem.

 

[inchy14]

I checked out the Health app on my iPhone. For the past few years it recorded every step I made and every floor I climbed, all time-stamped. It also knew exactly where I've been, when I was there and for how long.

The fucker knows me better than me.

Well i never knew that........

 

[Ballet-on-ice]

Try saying "OK Google" then, "how do I make you stop reacting to my OK Google voice command."

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Try saying "OK Google" then, "how do I make you stop reacting to my OK Google voice command."

It took about 7 settings to get it to stop working on mine. I had to do it because it was starting to listen to the words in my music in the car and acting accordingly. "No, this isn't the way to Amarillo, turn left at the next junction".

 

[Damocles]

A perfect example of how technology is only as clever as the idiot that programmed it. Lol!

Some other idiot will one day allow this code logic into determining something more serious and it will cause a major problem.

Dates/Timezones are invented by the Devil and all programmers despise them with every fibre of their being.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Dates/Timezones are invented by the Devil and all programmers despise them with every fibre of their being.

That's why we have Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), however even that can get tricky because if you store everything as UTC, it means historical activity can then appear to happen on the day before/after it actually did. Very tricky indeed.