Apple wants my contact information to use dictation?

[mmomega]

... or he is just an Apple jingo, defending everything that comes from this company.

That's a possibility as well to each his own, correct?

Cheers, Go have a beer

 

[desertman]

Cheers, Go have a beer

No beer, just two Margaritas.

 

[Alameda]

Nonsense. I know mom's email address by heart and can spell it out without using Contacts. If what you say were true it would not be possible to send any email to anybody who is not in Contacts.

Well la-dee-daa! Good for you! You memorized every email address and phone number in your Contacts list.

I'm answering the question. It's a reasonable answer. That's what the software does. Instead of whining about it, why not think to yourself, "Hey, that's great that Apple protects my Contacts by having a software mechanism that forces applications to ask permission through the OS before they can access my Contacts file. Because, after all, it's just a file on my hard disk, and in most operating systems, an application can just read any file on the hard disk anyway."

Are you also paranoid about your anti-virus software "scanning" your Contacts file?

 

[Beta Particle]

I just think it's funny that out of all the places the people openly spew information, they are concerned about Apple.

Why do you assume that the people concerned about sending this data to Apple, are lax about their data elsewhere?

Not all of us use social networks like Facebook and Twitter, pay for things with credit cards, use a cell phone, drive a car etc.

Maybe he wants to use dictation without contact information? I would think that most dictation use would not need it.

 

[AppleDApp]

Why do you assume that the people concerned about sending this data to Apple, are lax about their data elsewhere?

Not all of us use social networks like Facebook and Twitter, pay for things with credit cards, use a cell phone, drive a car etc.

Maybe he wants to use dictation without contact information? I would think that most dictation use would not need it.

If you want to do disctation without having to send your personal data to toher servers, use Dragon dictate from Nuance.

 

[mmomega]

Why do you assume that the people concerned about sending this data to Apple, are lax about their data elsewhere?

Not all of us use social networks like Facebook and Twitter, pay for things with credit cards, use a cell phone, drive a car etc.

Maybe he wants to use dictation without contact information? I would think that most dictation use would not need it.

Then the word people would again be a generalization and if you are not part of that then it is not directed towards you.

Yes, You are correct, You can use Dictation without it having access to your contacts, which is why the app asks you rather than just using them anyway.

You are also correct that not everyone uses such modern devices but would you also say that a vast majority of people do not use them? That more do not use them than do?

I guess it boils down to, what exactly would I think Apple was doing with. So far, and maybe I am naive but I can't think of a scenario where even if Apple had Aunt Peggy's email address that it would damage me or her, especially if she also allowed Dictation access to her contact information. I don't think I would unfriend her if she told me she had given them access.

 

[desertman]

You can use Dictation without it having access to your contacts, ...

No, you can not. You can choose not to use it at all but you can not use it without having our contacts information being sent to Apple.