Comments on: Is Apple’s Genius Good or Evil?

By: peter lembert

peter lembert — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:36:47 +0000

humm…..que tigueraje, yo sabia que habia gato entre macuto….
por eso busque en google …..”que pasaria si mi libreria de musica iba a parar a apple”…….

By: Rianeliza

Rianeliza — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:21:38 +0000

The points brought up here were exactly the concerns that started flying across my mind the minute I pressed the terms acceptance button (without reading, of course, like an idiot). How is apple going to treat the music I have on my computer from various sources? What are the potential consequences?

I’ve always wanted to believe that apple falls into that rare “not evil” company index. Not fun to think about if they don’t.

By: ray

ray — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:58:10 +0000

I will admit that I don’t know a lot about every bit of info that is encoded in a mp3 file. But I have a hard time believing that anyone would be able to find a detailed history of each music file embedded within it… including Apple.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:48:38 +0000

Apple Inc. today filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission declaring that it was openly adopting Evil(tm) as a corporate policy.

By: phil

phil — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:31:44 +0000

I’m just beginning to play with Genius, but I definitely have some reservations about sharing my library, especially since many of my downloads are from grey area sources and they “kindly” embed an MP3 tag showing the source that I’m now sharing. In the big picture, I’m pretty comfortable with the big boys keeping my info private, but the dark side possibilities are there !

By: Slveryder

Slveryder — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:38:41 +0000

I like the ability to make new playlists within my collection but I don’t like any of my info going back to Apple. Not that they’re doing anything and maybe they can’t do anything with the information; but I’m just not sure that they couldn’t change the Terms of Use in the future. If they already have the information on their servers, and RIAA or the MPAA get even more psychotic, I don’t trust the security.
That said, if Apple wants to tweak Genius so that I can use the app within iTunes & not send information to Apple, I’d enable it in a millisecond!

By: Corvida

Corvida — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:56:10 +0000

Extreme? Yes, but the RIAA is known for doing very extreme things. This is exactly why I would turn this feature off. I wouldn’t want to get caught up in that war in any way.

Great post Mark!

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:37:32 +0000

@jbelkin,

You make a good point that the younger demographic (aka the youth) have a different view on private vs. public. That said, I read today that a CareerBuilder.com survey suggests that 22% of employers search through social media sites (Facebook, etc.) during the hiring process. This suggests people may want to be a little less public about everything and anything.

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:16:01 +0000

It’s also a generational thing – how many people who are over 40 embrace Facebook/MySpace and post pictures of themselves drunk, same sex kissing or reveal just about every detail about their lives and probably if you zoomed in on photos, you could figure out their exact address … or hell, just ask them … so posting a calendar listing when they had sex last month or revealing a playlist … to some people, what’s the diff?

By: Not good nor evil per se

Not good nor evil per se — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:43:55 +0000

« and that Apple’s “analysis” could detect how many “stained” songs you have. »

If it ever happens, some guy on the internet will find out about it in about 2 seconds, and then it’s game over. Look what happened to the Google Chrome licence. Google was forced to backtrack on Chrome license terms.