Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
by Wowfunhappy on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:54PM
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They wouldn’t have let me into the building. Yes, I assume they wouldn’t have retracted my acceptance and we would have made some arrangement, but I have better things to deal with in my life. I’m on a (Jailbroken) iPhone, so the app should at least be sandboxed—I’m not entirely sure what I would have done on Android.
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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
by Syonyk on Friday August 13, 2021 @07:24PM
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I understand not wanting to deal with it, but that's quite literally how we got to this situation in the first place - everyone has a smartphone because everyone has a smartphone.
What if your phone was too old to run the app (which looks like a steaming pile, based on reviews)?
Unless there was something in the application documentation about "owning a modern smartphone and being willing to install random applications as required by the university," I would have plopped right down, pulled out a laptop, and started making phone calls to figure it out.
But, again, I'm at a point in my life where I can be a thorny pain in the ass about stuff like this without any real consequences.