However the good news is that certain new Beats headphones will also incorporate the W1 wireless chip e.g. Solo3 Wireless, Powerbeats 3 Wireless and the more affordable line of Beats X neckbuds. They may out-licence to other manufacturers too.
Samsung did this on their Galaxy S4 active and their S5 years ago already. I tested it on my S5 when it was new (took and underwater photo in a swimming pool) and it still works now. Others have broken it by holding it under faucets, because IP67 does not mean it can withstand water pressure.
So no, iPhones are not waterproof now and I doubt they claim it - it's just interpreted this way.
Windows 10, credit cards, google searches, Facebook, Spotify, Instagram and most of the things that we have been using nowadays do similar things.
I switched from iPhone to Android 3 years ago and that "price that I'm paying" is far from being high.
Personally, I don't care if they find out that I listen to Spotify every morning at 08:30 when I'm in the train or that I play Pokemon Go.
It was the same thing with the privacy changes on Windows 10. Lots of people getting super worried that now their information will be collected. That feeling that somehow makes them think they are more important than the others. The truth is, nobody really cares for what you do on your phone. You are just a small and tiny number in a universe of numbers.
- Windows 10
- credit cards (I pay cash most of the time and I don't collect bonus points)
- FB, Spotify, Instagram (because you need a FB account)
- I do use Google, but I'm not logged into it
Advertisers care.
And the government obviously cares, too.
Or why would they spend so much money on infrastructure for LE?
Also, just as Apple tries harder year after year to squeeze more money out of their customers, Google will make it harder and harder to avoid their customers' ads - because those are their real customers and you are just the product they sell.
It's easy to imagine a "Minority Report"-type future where ads literally "jump" at you as you walk down the street.
BT-beacons are a thing already - and Google constantly tracks your location via the Play Store app (you can't disable this, unless you disable GPS completely for all apps: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09...ill_track_you/ ) and it's easy to imagine what advertisers could do with that kind of data.
You already have ads that follow you "around" on websites you visit. Now imagine ads following you around as you walk in a mall or through a shopping-street...
Sure, Google and the others get a benefit from having access to that data, but that's not the same as there being a loss for me in them using the data.
But we're getting off on a tangent here; I'm not sure this is about the i7 anymore.
My data and privacy is important to me, not because I have anything to hide but because I then don't know who wants it, has it and more importantly what they intend to do with it. Advertising is pretty harmless, but what about salespeople incessantly calling you at work and hounding you to sell you some crap because you expressed a vague interest in an email to a friend the night before.
Also, despite all your caution, you also have tons of ads appearing to you when you surf on the internet. It's out of your control. Is not only Google doing that. It's basically the majority of services that you use, from send your CV to a HR agency to buy a new car and write your e-mail on the paper forms.
I'm not saying is 100% fine to sell our private information. Of course I would be happy to have an option on my phone/web that I can disable sharing of usage/information, but I will never private myself of new technologies and start to live inside a bubble because of what might/might not happen.
The technology out there is amazing and each day more surprising. I believe is a very risky concept to private yourself of all those cool things because of hypothetical fear.
But again, that's only my opinion, and what works for me might not work for you.