Vratislav Holub In this regular column, every day we look at the most interesting news that revolves around the California company Apple. Here we focus exclusively on the main events and selected (interesting) speculations. So if you are interested in current events and want to be informed about the apple world, definitely spend a few minutes on the following paragraphs.
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Work on AR glasses continues
In yesterday's summary, we summarized the latest information from a renowned analyst, who is, of course, Ming-Chi Kuo. In his report to investors, he mentioned work on an unspecified device, which we only know that it should work with augmented reality. But here we encounter the first problem. It could be anything. Augmented reality, or AR, is already used today by, for example, the iPhone or iPad. In any case, there has been talk for a long time about the arrival of Apple's smart AR glasses and some kind of VR/AR headset, which was also confirmed by Mark Gurman from Bloomberg last June.
Gurman claims that headset prototypes should look closer to the product Oculus Quest from Facebook, but should be slightly smaller. As for glasses, they should generally be sleeker and lighter. We could see the introduction of that headset already this year, while we will have to wait for it until next year. However, we should not count on smart glasses before 2023. And we will stay with these glasses for a while longer. They should offer quite great functions, where they can immediately display, for example, incoming messages and maps to their users. According to the latest information from DigiTimes magazine, the development of this product should still continue, with Apple now preparing to move into the so-called second phase of development. Unfortunately, no details are available at this time.
Google has not yet responded to Privacy in Apps
In December of last year, Apple came up with a very interesting new feature called Privacy protection in the application. You can come across this directly in the App Store, specifically with each application, where the developer must honestly fill in what all his program can actually do. In the case of Facebook, you can now immediately see that the company of the same name uses, for example, our contact information and various identifiers to track us, and that it associates activity directly with our profile. This is a great trick where Apple shows again and clearly that it cares about the privacy of its users and wants them to be as informed as possible. But as it seems, Google doesn't really like Privacy Protection in the application.
At the same time, every developer must fill in these data for all applications, specifically for all those that visited the App Store after December 8, 2020, or at least received an update. However, Fast Company recently drew attention to a very interesting and slightly suspicious thing - Google has not updated a single application since the mentioned rule came into effect, and that is why we come across the message "Details were not provided.” This adds text stating that the detailed information will need to be added in the next update.
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However, the interesting thing is that while Google Maps was updated on the competing Android, for example, on December 14, Google Duo the day after, on December 15, Gmail on December 16 and YouTube on December 21, we are still waiting for iOS. Of course, Google simply cannot avoid filling in new information. It is almost clear that sooner or later we will see some kind of update. And it will be all the more interesting to see what the company actually knows about us and how it handles our data. Google is probably trying to hide this information for as long as possible, mainly because of the aforementioned Facebook. After their update, which of course brought the filling in of these details, he received an avalanche of negative criticism. What do you think about this? Is this just a coincidence, or does Google just not want to come out with the truth?
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Pavel Jelic 
I am completely satisfied with this. I have the right to know what information about me the given application or service collects and to decide whether I want to continue using it or not.
Google is a terrible spy. It takes a strong stomach to build your business plan for selling data about your customers. I try to cut off their services as much as possible. It is not completely easy, the services are relatively high-quality, but there are also other values.
Yeah. Google Maps is miles apart from the competition. And Google's keyboard is the only one that can do haptics on iOS only when held like the original (swiftkey either every time you touch it or never) and has predictive text. Otherwise, I don't use anything else either, but even that doesn't irritate me a bit.