I can't believe Steve Jobs would make such an obviously disingenuous if not entirely false statement. It's a cold, hard fact that AT&T and every other carrier tracks people. While it might be technically true that Apple doesn't track anyone, the distinction is beyond weaselly. And the point isn't whether or not Apple tracks people, the point is how easy the iPhone's unencrypted backups of location data make it for pe…
Every cellphone ever could be tracked via the cell handoffs and triangulating. The police could always get at this, thats not the issue at hand. What people are complaining about is the consolidated.db file which appears to be a cache of general locations of where wifi SSID's are located. It also keeps a log of where the phone was in general when a call was placed. This is on the phone and is just an sqlite3 db, pick…
You're taking the statement out of context. In context, the email was clearly asking about "passive location-tracking," i.e. the cache. If you have to take a statement out of context for it to be true, it is as I said, disingenuous to the point of being an outright fabrication.
Now, I do think Jobs was accurate in saying that Android does do similar caching, so I don't see why he would have (if this email is genuine, which I doubt) felt the need to falsely claim iOS doesn't.