"We someone, was not tracking still" jobs Mr. said in an interview on Wednesday. "Never have." "Never is."
Mr. jobs said that Apple would fix the error in a free software update, which would release it in the next few weeks.
Mr.. jobs, which is currently on medical leave, has the question along with two Apple executives - Philip W. Schiller, senior Vice President of worldwide product marketing, and Scott Forstall, senior Vice President of iPhone software. A week ago, reported two researchers that she apparently visited had discovered a file in Apple devices with which to data of the sites by users in the previous 12 months. The discovery raised fears, that its users to track Apple was and prompted investigations by various European Governments and claims according to statements made by United States legislators.
Earlier on Wednesday booked Apple a statement on its Web site as its system the file used to identify a phone location, to explain.
Mr. jobs defended the timing of Apple's response to the controversy, saying that "rather than executed, to the Department p.r.," explained it to determine what exactly happened.
He said "The first thing we always do when a problem is brought to us, we try to isolate and determine if it is real,". "It took about a week to do an investigation and write a response, which is pretty fast for something this complicated technically."
He added: "Scott and Phil and myself were all involved in the response writing, because we think it is important."
Some privacy advocates that hard last week critically praised Apple the company's response saying it was a step in the right direction.
"Apple recognized an error and they fixed it", said Marc Rotenberg, executive Director of the electronic privacy information center, in an interview. "This is a good thing."
Confirming speculation from said some security experts, Apple in the communication published on its website that the file in the people's iPhones no protocol with their sites, but rather "the positions of the cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots around the wardie more than one hundred miles away can be the iPhone's location from the iPhone."
Apple said it used the data that it a cache called a device location faster than calculated by GPS satellites.
But Apple acknowledged that it had made mistakes, it due to errors in the programming, in save the data for a long time, keep clear the file and store the data, even if disable user location services had selected.
"The system is incredibly complex," said Mr. Forstall. "We thoroughly test this but in such a complex system, sometimes, there are places where we could do better."
Apple said that it would reduce the location cache not more than seven days on the iPhone. The company also said it would stop the cache on the people would secure computer delete and completely user clears the cache location services.
Apple also said that it its database with Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers with its customers phones as sensors updated. But it said user based could not find the file on the phone, and that it collected the information in an anonymous and encrypted form. Can identify the company of the phone user from the data, it was said.
While some security experts about the presence of the file have known for some time, the issue made headlines last week after their results at a Technology Conference in San Francisco reported the researchers. Apple came under heavy criticism for its silence after the discovery.
The report location attracted attention from some government officials, including Senator Al Franken, of Minnesota Democrats "secretly compiling a star at Apple questions letter, why it was" the data and what it used for would be. Congressman Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts and Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, sent letters to Apple asking for an explanation of the topic.
Google acknowledged last week that also data collected it, on the situation of the Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers from its users.
A tidbit about possible future product plans contained Apple statement. The company said it also traffic from its phones and collected related to build traffic database tablets to a lot. Apple offer real time traffic information along with navigation advice would allow. Google already uses mobile to collect real-time traffic information.
Mr. jobs fell to questions about his health or any plans, send it back to Apple. Last week, during the company's quarterly financial report, Timothy D. Cook, Chief Operating Officer, said: "he continues to be involved in important strategic decisions, and I know that he wants to be back full time."
Nick contributed reporting from New York Bilton.
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