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We know Amazon's doing practically the same thing, and Google, Facebook, etc. are doubtless doing it too.
The difference—for better or worse—is that Apple’s using your own machine instead of their servers.
And this is why I trust Apple the most out of all the big corps.
I mean, I still don’t trust them very much, but as a large corp they have demonstrated the fewest and least damaging psychopathic/abusive behaviours against users.
They also use these data points for some useful features with auto suggesting map directions if it has a pattern figured out. Or to get directions to mom’s house or other shortcuts.
I know you cou add this info to the contacts and search for locations with voice, but it’s handy to just 2 clicks to directions to a weekly soccer practice or whatever.