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AppleZulu said:

This is irresponsible reporting. The headline and lede make it seem like this was somehow a failure on the part of the iPad itself. It was not.

Read on, and you'll understand that the issue was that, once dropped, the iPad became a wedged-in obstruction to flight control mechanisms. The same would've been the case if the dropped item had been a Microsoft Surface, or a paper notebook in a rigid binder. There is no fault in the hardware design or software operation of the iPad itself.

The headline is 100% correct.  Nothing in the headline implies that it was a failure of an Apple product.  The headline couldn’t have been simpler and more correct. 

Boo hoo 

I work a day job as an iOS SW engineer but I also do side work for others as well as an app of my own (currently not available as it needs to be updated) and I like the App Store as it does allow me to compete against the big moneyed interests.  

I think Apple already covers this or is very close and could cover it with minor adjustments.  

Mike Wuerthele said:

I guess all I can say here is Apple knowing that a file has 0s and 1s in it is not the same as knowing those 0s and 1s are a picture of a palm tree, and then a picture of a dog, and then a living room shoot.

I expect it is a bit more complicated that that, in order for it to work.   I am not an expert on how this hashing works at the low level -- being a SW engineer for close to 35 years I understand the theory of hashing, but not the low level details -- especially of so-called "fuzzy" hashing.   

To be useful, this needs to be able to identify photos irrespective of their format, size, etc.  Apple gets a list of hashes for known offensive CSAM images.  A simple hash as has been described here could be foiled by a simple 1-pixel change to the photo, assuming the photo was the exact same format, size, quality, as the original.  If presumed bad guy has a known photo, as a PNG at 600x800 and the NCMEC made the hash on the same photo in JPG at 89% quality at 750x1000, the hashes, if done on the source file bit-stream, won't be anywhere near the same.  But I expect that this system would in fact identify this photo.

Which means the simple bit stream hash being bandied about here is not correct.  For one, they call it a "fuzzy hash" or something like that, which implies that similar images (or the same image in different sizes, formats, and maybe some obsfucation) would indeed match.

I expect the photos are actually opened, format read and the photo normalized in some manner, so that the general features of the photo are more or less the same, and then some fancy "fuzzy" hash is made of this image to be compared against a "fuzzy" hash made by NCMEC in a similar manner.

kkapoor said:

deckert63 said:

Is Masimo a real healthcare technology firm or are they a patent troll? If the former, not sure why apple doesn’t pay them the license fees like they do Qualcomm. If the latter, may Masimo rot in special place in hell only reserved for patent trolls. 

They are a real company and their claim against Apple is legitimate.

Yes Massimo is a real company.  No, their claim has not been found to be legitimate (or not legitimate) that I know of.  Patents don’t cover ideas.  They cover implementations of ideas.  I’m not aware that Massimo has shown that Apples implementation violates their patent.  It may or may not, but I don’t think that’s been shown.   Often a company has a patent on a process that implements a specific function and if someone else comes out with that function they assume that the company that came out with that function must have used the same process they have protected by patent and sues.   But only based on the functionality involved, not the actual patented process.  So far that is where I think this is at.  The actual trial was declared a mistrial for some reason.  

So if I take a PC and water cool it, without going in and changing clock speeds, RAM timings, perhaps voltages, should I expect to see much of a difference?   Probably not.  

At least as far as I understand it, not having done water cooling since the very late 90s and early 2000s, is that we water  cool in order to be able to boost clock speeds, adjust timings, and boost voltage (to support the first two).  Water cooling by itself doesn't boost performance.  It gives you expanded headroom to change and boost performance parameters. 

Unless these guys figure out how to boost the clock speed and/or adjust the memory timings to be more aggressive, I'm not sure what they were expecting from this stunt.  

Yes those early licensees included DEC, at one time the second largest computer company behind IBM, which developed a high powered version of the ARM architecture called StrongARM and which was developed with Apple specifically in mind.   The original Newton MessagePad used an ARM610 but the MessagePad 2000 switched to StrongARM.  DEC sold this tech and teams to Intel as part of a lawsuit and Int developed StrongARM into their Xscale line. 

foregoneconclusion said:

gatorguy said: It's somewhat irritating to go to the AppStore and find recommended apps since every single one now is a game and I'm definitely so gamer. Not even one minute a month spent playing them, yet what Apple "suggests" for me is nothing but. Well OK, one out of a total 17 suggestions wasn't a game.

?? The iOS/iPadOS App Store is split into Today/Games/Apps/Arcade/Search. The Mac App Store is split into Discover/Arcade/Create/Work/Play/Develop/Search. In other words, it's really easy to immediately go to a section that is guaranteed to not involve gaming. 

His point is not that you can't find other apps.  It's that that is mostly what the app store recommends, even when he has little or no history of buying games.  

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Apple Computer: Nice products but you wouldn't want to work there.

Rather ignorant.   I know a few people who work at Apple and love it.   Not for me, personally, but plenty of people want to work there, and like working there.  

These sorts of returns are usually auctioned or sold bu the pallet to companies (or people) who then refurb or sort through and find the working stuff and then sell it through specialty stores or eBay or other online forums etc.  I’ve subscribed in the past to lists from companies who help big retailers pack and sell the stuff by the pallet and I know a guy (through a hobby forum) who, as a retiree, recently started a business buying these sorts of pallets and selling the good stuff on eBay and the like.  He does very well. In fact his wife quit her job to help him it was working so well.