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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by jodrellblank on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:32PM (#28174128)
They're not misunderstanding it; you're deliberately using an inaccurate description to mislead people while trying to hide behind "technically not lying", and they're calling you out on it.
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by zekrioca on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:45PM (#28174295)
Am I, though? Is Apple? Is parent's? It seems "their" (whoever you meant) interpretation of what does and doesn't constitute something is looser than my interpretation.
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by zepto on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:58PM (#28174426)
You said Apple was scanning the device. They aren’t. This is what you are being called out on.
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by zekrioca on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:39PM (#28174889)
A-ha, so you meant that the device is scanning itself, and not Apple? Clever, very clever technicality.
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by jodrellblank on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:56PM (#28175077)
What you're doing is changing "Two Americans run their homes on solar panels" into "American homes run on solar panels" with the intent of fudging the quantity so that readers assume it means most or all of them, while being able to argue "they are American homes, plural, so it's correct".

"Device scans photos" and "Apple scans device" imply two very different things about how much is scanned, and you're using the latter because you know that if you describe it accurately readers won't be as panicked as you want them to be.

Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by zekrioca on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:18PM (#28176484)
Sure buddy, that’s exactly my point, how would you figure? I do not miss the forest for the trees though.