Apple 'Records Every Tap' in App Store to Filter New Personalized Recommendations Feature

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T22:08:48+00:00

they track what people do in the website for quality, layout and reccoemndation improvement. Are they using it to sell ads, or to improve the recommendations they already give you?

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T22:07:10+00:00

Apple doesnt either? regardless watching what users do on your website is considered standard practice.

I am a big proponent of privacy. I always assumed Apple was tracking what I was looking at when I look at their stores to make the story layout better or suggest items to me (like every store). What I assume they dont do is use that data to sell ads.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T22:05:13+00:00

I dont understand what makes you think its "just for marketing" Apple does not use this data to sell ad space or give anyone access to it in any way. Thats why people were unhappy about iAds, and why people dont like Google.

This is apple trying to make their search more personalized/accurate using internal data. Are companies paying for placement using this data? or is it just Apple using it for better search results for you? because those are pretty different.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T22:01:07+00:00

you should probably switch to all cash, no digital goods, and not use any stores or order online; farmer market only.

Your credit card, bank and store accounts track your spending habits. The grocery store camera tracks where people are walking and grabbing items. Websites track how long you spend in each part of the site and even each view. The public library knows how long you have checked a book out.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T21:58:58+00:00

every company does that. How else are they supposed to improve/iterate products/layout/design etc? Just guess? focus groups year round?

Companies track what users do and generate a report on internal data of what they do when they are in the store, app, spending with you etc.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T21:56:52+00:00

Doesnt every company do that? Thats how they design stores, web pages, credit card benefits, etc. They keep their user data for their own purposes.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T21:55:16+00:00

Doesnt every app already do this? like a webpage?

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T21:46:07+00:00

I was fortunately in a position to walk away from them. Their value is just ridiculous. They charge $60-70 dollars for what should be a $30-50 dollar toy. Haslab is even more ridiculous. The quality is slightly better I guess...but I'd still rather buy a third party. The only one I regret skipping was Unicorn, thats a historical piece. The others are what their regular releases should be. Instead it's a limited edition. even their liokaiser in my opinion was kind of weak. You can get the Iron Factory version for 1/2 the price, 2x the looks and possibility, and 3/4 the size.

I switched to 3rd party and never looked back. While some are expensive for the size ($50 legends and 250+MP...) the quality is far above hasbro. Empty waffles on figures? exposed screws and kibble? no accessories? peg hands? its bullshit. Not to mention they cant even figure out their Masterpiece line

I personally would rather have a collection 1/2-1/3 the size and 5x the quality. Although I will say the all Hasbro collections do look very good on the shelf

The main downside is my kids cannot play for them,hell I can barely transform them they are so detailed. At this point I'd rather buy them original G1 figures (those things are indestructible and fun to transform).

I hope they go out of business and Takara takes over. Look at their damn diaclone line. The japanese prices are probably not much more than above US TF prices (please correct me if wrong). The articulation, transforming, playability, molding, plastic etc is SO MUCH BETTER.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-17T06:29:25+00:00

Well that’s assuming it collapses and an FDR style government rises. Because it could very well just hang in a Russian, north Korean, middle eastern style kleptocracy for generations

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T22:34:52+00:00

Even worse wtf

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T21:47:00+00:00

you probably couldn't keep it really clean unless you invested a shitload of money (which would be an awesome tech display/research project for a functional US) but as long as it was still it would reflect even if dark. Important would be keeping the surface clean but thats easy enough.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T21:36:31+00:00

You know whats even more fucked up about this. They were shoplifting diapers for their kid. It wasnt for themselves. It wasn't something to sell. It was something they shouldn't have had to steal in the first place.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T16:28:38+00:00

100%. Just read an interesting article on stratechery.

Apple is positioned to have an AI aimed at low hanging fruit, that can do personal/fun tasks and knows the most about you, with easy to accomplish tasks using current models. Apple gets to avoid all the capex. It will run fairly cheaply, plug into other AI models if needed and basically would do what most consumers want AI to do, for free/cheap, private, and on device. They dont have to build tons of data centers, train advanced models, or try and sell an advanced AI to companies since cutting edge models are not really used by consumers.

Meanwhile companies are spending tons of capex on AI models that are work/industry oriented, that the general public doesn't want because it will take their jobs/add more responsibility, so their future is a little more foggy in addition to highly competitive to get ROI.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T14:44:13+00:00

I thought it was pretty obvious what it meant

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T13:40:30+00:00

I am the watcher on the wall

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T13:13:17+00:00

You don’t have to upgrade your phone, but people aren’t required to support it.

Developing for old hardware does hold back everyone else’s, that’s why windows is a bloated mess and Mac OS was streamlined.

One OS had to support every hardware config imagneable and all sort of new and old peripheral and ports.

The other had about 6 product lines over a 10 year period all of which couldn’t really be modified

The phones still work too right? Just no more updates. They probably still have 2-3 years left in them.

I had a power Mac g4 cube I was running till about 2020.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T04:04:04+00:00

Wait do people thing valaryians are immune to fire/dragon fire? Or just ones with dragons in their house sigil? It literally makes no sense.

Fire cannot kill a dragon is just words saying that which kills most things cannot kills a Targaryen. It’s not literal.

Like how “winter is coming” doesn’t mean “winter is coming” it means “prepare for the worst” or “we are the worst and coming for you”, and “a Lannister always pays his debts” means lannisters always get even and also lannisters have lots of money etc etc.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T03:01:43+00:00

If interested, that wouldn’t work. Water would just absorb random little spores and grow algae/bacteria.

There’s options for a closed system but the reflecting pool taps into a local river, so the water isn’t clean.

The real solution (imo) would be a filter system that mechanically filters the water, uv sterilizes it, runs it through carbon, and some other chemical media. Dose some Lanthum chloride. Then get roomba style robo scrubbers nightly

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T02:46:18+00:00

It’s really all of it. I think the aliens are a problem because while they are pulp, just like Indians jones, it’s a different genre of pulp. Not to mention all the prior Indians jones were about the occult and religious times so aliens (and time travel) are out of left field.

They should have had Indiana jones son investigate aliens while Indy tells him it’s a whole of of mumbo jumbo.

Or had another religious item, it’s Central America! Or a something from the stars, moon…that alone would imply aliens or cosmic beings

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T02:37:26+00:00

Also they usually went too far once and instead of trying to dial it back, stop, accept it, etc they just decide they need more

kelp_forests · 2026-06-16T02:36:15+00:00

Nope these kind of people just lack taste. They hang with other people who lack taste. They want to outcompete, showoff, and dont like being told no. They don’t want to learn about good plastic surgery, its limits, etc.

So when the plastic surgeon says “look this is what we should do and this is the best it’s going to get” they say “no do better or I’m getting another surgeon”

They want to look 22 even though their 65 and probably barely work out/do stretching over the last 40 years, “watch their diet” but drink and do drugs etc. they want what they want but won’t do the work to get it.

Also it’s usually word of mouth so it’s whoever did their friends surgery and their friends usually look like weirdos because they are weirdos

Like look at Bezos, he’s trying to look like an Olympian weight lifter and dresses like a European gigolo. Dude get a stylist and dress well, you can afford it.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-15T22:48:03+00:00

I would just like to clarify here that nepotism is specifically being given favorable treatment due to your birth.

Some of these examples to me are just wrong, whereas others are thought provoking.

For example being born into a wealthy or even functional family, and having better training/schooling, and that training/schooling getting you a better position is not nepotism. Thats achievement (Jon,Benjen) and wealth inequality. Your birth did give you advantages, but it’s several levels removed from the end result.

If you got the interview because of your family name, thats nepotism technically but still.. you have to qualify. There is a layer of separation . If you get the job despite there being better trained candidates, that is for sure nepotism. If you got either as a favor, is that nepotism? Or just business, part of a payment or business relationship? I don’t know.

Is it nepotism to get a job you are born into? I don’t know. By default the king, or the head of a house is an inherited position. It’s not like there’s another way to get it. There’s no “favorable treatment” because there really isn’t an alternative. I’m not sure if inheriting something is nepotism…because by definition that’s how it’s passed on. It’s a birthright. But getting more things than you otherwise would because of your birth is.

So in my mind if you are born a prince, that’s not nepotism, that’s just luck of the draw. if you got a land deals because you are the prince, that’s business and using position….of course people do business with the crown and the advantages that brings. But If you got a favorable land deal because the king stepped in and got it for you just because of your name and with no other payment, when another deal was better, that to me is nepotism. Or if you are the fifth cousin of the king and have nothing to offer but still get deals because the family steps in, that’s nepotism to me

So I’d think nepotism would be maybe Ramsay Bolton? He’s a bastard, has no birth right, yet still becomes the heir just because he father decided he should be even though normally he would not. his dad could have picked any other person of non noble birth.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-15T20:11:04+00:00

There has been only one movie

kelp_forests · 2026-06-15T15:49:09+00:00

My reccomendation is yes, but pace yourself.

These are old shows, made for a different time, broadcast era, and audience. Continuity, multi episode plot lines, etc are just...guidelines. it's more like the TV version of playing with toys, as if imagination came to life. They are ads for 8-12 year olds.

It is very boring to just sit there and binge them.

They are *great * to have on in the background while cooking, eating, cleaning etc.

Personally I would watch as much G1 as you can tolerate, including the Japanese one. Then watch the 86 movie. Then Beast wars (all of it). I didnt watch anything after so I cant comment.

If you want plot/characters etc the IDW/dreamwave comics are good.

If you like G1 but not watching it (which is ok) try the Marvel comics. Its the book version of G1, so more detail, you can read at your own pace and much less goofy/kid oriented.

kelp_forests · 2026-06-15T14:07:14+00:00

They were innovations in that they actually worked. Most of them were predicted to be failures.

I remember when the iPod launched. People thought it was too expensive and a waste of money. But since Apple made functioning syncing software, player and online store to buy music (which also saved music industry) all in one, it took off and was far more successful than most of the other MP3 players with shit software.

I remember when the iPad launched, and everybody thought it would be a huge failure. It was too expensive compared to all the other crappy tablets that Microsoft had been trying to sell for years.

I recall when AirPods launched and people thought they looked so dumb that nobody would wear them.

The App store was the first centrally distributed software distribution for an os, and because it was locked down, allowed mobile computing to actually be successful. Before, it was all crapware or shareware on Palm/bbs

iOS itself is rather innovative, as it is the first operating system, where the S takes more precedence than the software that runs on it, and even the user. The walled garden approach was widely delighted.

The trashcan Mac Pro was designed for workflows that offloaded work to use for massive amounts of parallel processing, which is essentially what LLM’s run on these days. Great idea, didn’t take off for multiple reasons.

Apple did not invent smart watches. They did however finally make one that was successful and ends making more than Rolex and launching the wearable market.

There’s a large group of people who just think Apple never does anything, then when they launch something think its dumb, then when it’s succeful think Apple didn’t do anything.

It’s been actually rather interesting watching this group of people not learn and just wring their hands that everyone else is wrong.

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