text: There we go. Everything’s wrapped up in a tidy little bow now. Apple has officially—officially!—announced that the elusive white iPhone 4 will be available for purchase tomorrow. 
   
   Per Apple’s press release (official!): 
   
   “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we’ve worked to get every detail right.” 
   
   How many of you have “waited patiently” for the white iPhone 4? I salute you. We all salute you. Your friends said it would never happen BUT YOU KNEW BETTER. It’ll be available through Apple, Verizon, AT&T and Apple’s other authorized resellers in 16- and 32-gigabyte versions for $199 and $299, respectively, with a two-year wireless contract. 
   
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   Almost Very Nearly Official: White iPhone Coming This Spring ||||| Apple aims to – finally – set the record straight about the gathering and use of location information by iOS devices. The entire Q&A can be found below. 
   
   Apple starts off by stating that it has never tracked, and will never track the location of a customer’s iPhone. The company goes on to say it’s partly to blame for any ‘confusion’ about it, though, because users haven’t been ‘educated’ to fully understand the technical issues with providing mobile users with fast and accurate location information. 
   
   That said, the company did identify several ‘bugs’ which it says it will fix shortly. 
   
   As we posited earlier, Apple says it’s merely maintaining a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending geo-tagged locations, both anonymously and encrypted. 
   
   According to the Cupertino company, the location data that researchers spotted on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which it adds can be more than one hundred miles away from the device in question. 
   
   Apple says it simply can not identify the source of this data (i.e. your location). 
   
   Nevertheless, the company says it will release a free iOS software update sometime in the next few weeks that reduces the size of the Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone, start encrypting and refrain from backing up this cache and delete it entirely when Location Services is turned off by the user. 
   
   Apple admits that this storing the cache for such a long time was a bug that will be fixed, ultimately recognizing that this was a valid source for concern. Another bug resulted in the iPhone continually updating its Wi-Fi and cell tower data from Apple’s crowd-sourced database even after the user turned off Location Services on his phone. 
   
   Earlier this week, a class action suit was filed, accusing Apple of invasion of privacy and computer fraud and of “secretly recording movements of iPhone and iPad users.” 
   
   French, German, Italian and South Korean regulators had also started investigating the alleged location collection feature on Apple devices following publication of the researchers report. 
   
   Does Apple’s response sound credible to you? 
   
   Apple Q&A on Location Data:
target: – Apple finally responded to the accusations that it was tracking iPhone users’ locations today, saying it “has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.” In a statement, which you can read on TechCrunch, the company explained that it was actually keeping a log not of the phone’s location, but of the location of WiFi hotspots and cell towers, “some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone.” The data is used to more quickly triangulate users’ position when they use location-based services, and is sent to Apple anonymously. But the company did admit to some “bugs” in the software—like that it keeps collecting data even after you’ve turned Location Services off, and that it stored years of data, instead of the week's worth it needs—and promised an iOS update to fix them. And, just to add some positive news to the cycle, it also announced that the rumored white iPhone will be available tomorrow, Time reports.