Comments on: Calculator Phoning Home? Not Really

By: Pony

Pony — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:20:44 +0000

I think eugene is missing the point when he claims “the amount of information there is probable less than a small jpeg.”
It should be possible to prevent calculator from connecting to Apple.
When I wish to quickly make a calculation I should not have to wait for my internet connection to be brought up.

By: eugene

eugene — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:56:20 +0000

Clearly it cant be cached. The currencies would be out of date. Nor can Apple generally rely on people hitting the menu option to update currencies, because the user may not. The other option would be to query every time a conversion is made. That may be considered to chatty .

Anyway the amount of information there is probable less than a small jpeg.

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