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  • Apple earns $46.9B in revenue on sales of 45.5M iPhones, edging market expectations

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    AppleInsider said:
    "Our strong September quarter results cap a very successful fiscal 2016 for Apple," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said. "We're thrilled with the customer response to iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2, as well as the incredible momentum of our Services business, where revenue grew 24 percent to set another all-time record."
    I think the important part here is what Tim did not say. I was expecting something like: "we're thrilled by the sales  uptake of iPhone7 and Apple Watch 2".  Maybe he is slightly disappointed by the figures.

  • Apple counters Australian banks' call for iPhone NFC access, cites handset security

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    kevin kee said:
    sirlance99 said:.

    People often misunderstood that Apple Pay is only NFC chip. What Apple protect here is their implementation of transaction or surprise, consumer's security. If you read how Apple Pay works, Apple has no access to transaction whatsover. Bank still keeping the controls of all transaction and tokenization. Apple simply play as a conduit, but a very secure conduit, compare to Samsung Pay. Which is why I stated, by giving away that particular control to bank, Apple is jeopardizing consumer's security, not something that Apple design Apple Pay for.
    The consumer security is not jeopardized when the control is given to the bank, your statement is plain BS.

    The moment it would become known that a bank is taken security not as seriously as it should, the customer would lose the trust in the bank and would redraw all his money from the bank.  Despite their commercial tactics, we all hate, we do trust banks

  • India urges Apple, others to embed government-funded biometric ID technology into smartphones

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    If I have to choose the organisation that stores and manages my biometric details, I would prefer a democratic elected government much more than any private company.  With an elected government , I can at least undo my mistake at the next election.
    When Tim Cook calls the democratically elected EU institutions crap, this just confirms my point.  I don't want to put the control over my biometric details in the hands an arrogant CEO, who thinks he is allowed much more than any other person because his company is so successful.
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