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  • Removal of App Store's first emulator leaves more questions than answers

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    teejay2012 said:
    This story reminds me of my first 'Mac' which was actually an Atari ST computer with a dongle called Spectre created by the legend David Small that plugged into the ST cartridge port. Worked amazingly well to emulate a Mac Plus, but required original 128K ROMs that would physically plug into the dongle plus a Macintosh Operating System 6.0.8 disk . There was a lot of exclusionary, 'you are on your own' text  which transferred the problem of obtaining the Apple ROMs to the purchaser. Despite rumblings of legal challenges, Data Pacific who marketed the dongles was never shut down. I guess the market was too small for Apple to care. I am not sure of the market for vintage Nintendo game ROMs, or why financially Nintendo would care. But I suspect they do care.



    I remember that!  They also made one for the Commodore Amiga, and I still have it somewhere in my stashes of old stuff. I remember it was so tough getting those Roms. Dealers who had broken Macs would NOT sell the Roms and Apple was trying to shut it down. 
    teejay2012watto_cobraAlex1N

  • Tesla reaches settlement in autopilot death case of Apple engineer

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    If anyone wants to see how the technology is going, just take a ride or watch a Waymo. I have ridden several times and have seen them on the road every day. They drive like an elderly person who can’t see very well and sometimes break for no reason. Deathly afraid of making left turns on busy streets with no left turn traffic light arrows. It will pick the “safest” (longest) route to get to your destination and is a little cheaper than rideshares and rarely almost half the price. 

    I have seen the cars stop traffic on busy streets for no apparent reason, and while it has a ton of sensors on the car, it still has difficulty judging where pedestrians are when driving parallel to a sidewalk that has people on it. Mine stopped because it was thinking those people who were walking would all of a sudden dart into the street when it was a couple and their baby stroller. Almost every ride, I have feedback, and a lot of times the cars are pretty dirty inside. They keep giving me vouchers but Google does not like talking about issues that could be construed as potential problems that could result in serious accidents. 

    I doubt Tesla will be able to make a safe automated driving system if it just relies on cameras. The only reason why Waymo is successful is the grea$ing of politicians who tout that their cities will be high tech and this will be our future. So far, all I see is weary, angry, and surprised people when taking Waymo or when driving next to one. 
    timpetuswilliamlondonronnwatto_cobraAlex_Vtht

  • Apple won't unlock India Prime Minister's election opponent's iPhone

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    I think the public has an incorrect idea on what locks Apple can open. 

    Activation lock, which is when you have a device that was able to be erased with “find my” on, or glitched and was off when you erased it but after it was, it thinks it was on. That lock Apple can remove with proper credentials. 

    Passcode locks? No. 
    Like others have mentioned, this is something Apple can’t help you with. That’s why it’s so important to back up your device. People have lost everything on their devices by something as simple as a glitching display. The device thinks you’re touching it when you’re not. Which leads the device to enter into recovery mode. Once that happens, unless there is a vulnerability to reset the number of tries, it’s over. The device has to be erased. 

    Depending on where your stuff is stored, you may or may not be able to get it back from a backup. Anything the Secure Enclave chip uses is gone, along with app data that the app will refuse to save outside of the app. A lot of corporate apps are like that.  Friends of mine who work at the Apple stores get a lot of frustrated traveling business executives who have their device stop working or damage it and have to replace or restore their device and find out they don’t have the information they need for their business appointments. 

    With all of the hacker tools out there, it might be telling that India has asked Apple, knowing already what the answer would be. To me, it says, they have already tried other nefarious ways to get into the device and have failed. At least without having to pay $$$ to scumbags like NSO. 



    ronn

  • If you have an iPhone with AT&T, there's a good chance your info has been stolen

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    eriamjh said:
    killroy said:
    Only four digits in the pass code good grief AT&T.
    The passcode is downright worthless.  Another 4-digit code to forget.  

    How about 2-factor login?   How about non-socially stealable  questions (not “what street did you live on” or “what city were you born”, but something not guessable from your address or commonly posted info).
    The weird thing is the passcode isn’t really used when you log into your account, it’s an extra thing they make you do when you try to upgrade your devices at their store or at an Apple Store. I turn mine off and on all the time. 

    There’s more to this than just the passcode. Just give it a few more months before they’re forced to come clean. 
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  • Epic and allies are complaining about Apple's US App Store fees, while they charge about t...

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    People need to abandon the idea that a certain percentage commission is "fair" and another "unfair". The courts aren't going to rule on that aspect. All of these companies made the same complaints to the EU and the resulting DMA doesn't try to regulate commission percentages at all. 
    I don’t know. After the landmark case regarding real estate commissions, everyone’s lunch is about to get threatened. 

    It will be interesting to see if a smart person uses these eu laws and possibly new us laws to sue companies like Microsoft’s Xbox online stores, Sony and Nintendo’s stores, particularly Nintendo since they want to decide what games get to be cartridge and what games are online. Let’s say I want to download Fortnite onto my Xbox (I don’t), but I want to do it directly from Epic and not from the Xbox store, I can’t. Why not? What if I want to protect my purchases of THIRD PARTY games that I’m downloading from Microsoft? I can’t, tough shit to me. Well, let’s see if these “friends” of Epic will like the taste of Apple’s medicine because they’ll end up swallowing it soon as well. 
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