Apple in iOS 26.2 will disable automatic Wi-Fi network syncing between iPhone and Apple Watch in the European Union to comply with the bloc's regulations, suggests a new report. Normally, when an iPhone connects to a new Wi-Fi network, it automatically shares the network credentials with the paired Apple Watch.
And if I did, i wouldn’t want it secretly exfiltrating everything about me to third party servers from companies that actively refuse to follow laws and regulations regarding data privacy and protections.
You would be surprised how often people cheap out on their hardware, not knowing how those companies are selling the data about you to make up the rest of the price.
Is Pebble a data hoarder? It doesn’t share anything but is restricted from full functionality. You’re using Apple rhetoric where they’ll conflate Meta with everyone else.
Pebble should have access to my text messages and watching my notifications from other apps? No thanks. It can just mind its own business and be a watch.
In this weird scenario I think your Apple hardware is perfectly safe, nobody is going to buy and pair third party devices for you forcibly.
And if I did, i wouldn’t want it secretly exfiltrating everything about me to third party servers from companies that actively refuse to follow laws and regulations regarding data privacy and protections.
Why would you buy it then?
You would be surprised how often people cheap out on their hardware, not knowing how those companies are selling the data about you to make up the rest of the price.
It’s up to regulators and not Apple to be the nanny because Apple uses it to stifle competition. The only free market is a regulated one.
The competition are data hoarders. Stifling data hoarders is fine by me.
Is Pebble a data hoarder? It doesn’t share anything but is restricted from full functionality. You’re using Apple rhetoric where they’ll conflate Meta with everyone else.
Pebble should have access to my text messages and watching my notifications from other apps? No thanks. It can just mind its own business and be a watch.
We don’t think like that in the EU, we like free markets more than anyone else 👍👍👍