Wacom tablets track every app you open
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Wacom tablets track every app you open
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Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#2More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
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#3> as far as I can tell anyone with the presence of mind to decline it could do so with no adverse consequences
Makes me think one should try declining these kinds of agreements to see what happens, before accepting. As someone who also has an "anti-privacy-policy-policy," I wonder how many of these kinds of things I've agreed to when it was unnecessary.
Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#4More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
An operating system needs to be aware of every application running on it. (It doesn't need to be reporting that back to the mothership, though)
I'm not sure what that has to do with a third party peripheral. You may be confusing a Wacom tablet for something like an iPad or Nexus 7?
EDIT: For others who may be confused, a Wacom tablet is used to provide a pen/stylus interface to a computer. It's an additional peripheral, similar to your keyboard or mouse, for your computer. It is not a standalone independent computing platform.
Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#5More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
This is getting voted down, but is this not true? My iPhone knows all my top apps and shows them on whatever that screen is called, with the search, and adjusts them over time as usage changes. Maybe it’s not “more important,” but why vote this down? How do I know that data doesn’t go back to Apple with “telemetry”?
Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#6More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
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Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#7More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
Being actual operating systems, I can understand why. I mean, it's pretty convenient to know what's installed on my phone. However, a writing/drawing tablet doesn't need to. At all. Ever.
Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#8More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
This is getting voted down, but is this not true? My iPhone knows all my top apps and shows them on whatever that screen is called, with the search, and adjusts them over time as usage changes. Maybe it’s not “more important,” but why vote this down? How do I know that data doesn’t go back to Apple with “telemetry”?
Because it’s like saying “well iOS/Android knows your contacts, so what’s the issue with Wacom siphoning your contacts?”
> How do I know that data doesn’t go back to Apple with “telemetry”?
By checking the privacy policy. Also, you can opt out of telemetry on iOS.
Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#9More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
An operating system needs to be aware of every application running on it. (It doesn't need to be reporting that back to the mothership, though) I'm not sure what that has to do with a third party peripheral. You may be confusing a Wacom tablet for something like an iPad or Nexus 7? EDIT: For others who may be confused, a Wacom tablet is used to provide a pen/stylus interface to a computer. It's an additional peripher…
Maybe I’m confusing it too. I searched “Wacom tablet” and it seems to be a... tablet.
Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open
#10More importantly, don't iOS and Android track every app you open also?
An OS with this data is different than an app.