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Apple reportedly testing in-screen Touch ID for the next iPhone
I’d be OK with a pattern that would erase a locked phone, not just one finger. The chances of accidental erasure would be too great.roake said:I wear a mask all day. Face ID is great, but useless with the mask. The return of Touch ID would be SO NICE...
I would like to see security options that could allow requirements for both Touch and Face ID (and possibly passcode), combinations of these, or none of them (security off).
I also want to see a “poison finger” option where, if a certain finger is used on the fingerprint scanner, the phone is disabled and wiped.
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Petition calls on Apple to remove Robinhood from App Store amid GameStop kerfuffle
You don’t understand it? Do you understand that if you choose to use a free stock trading app, you’re playing by their rules? Use a real stockbroker if you don’t like Robinhood. I smelled the stink on their app the first week it came out. “Free” is never really free, is it?iadlib said:I don’t understand how a trading platform can limit your access to purchasing shares of a publicly traded company so long as you have the funds to cover said purchase. It’s not a fraudulent transaction and any volatility it causes in the market is up to the SEC and the markets to deal with. Only the SEC and each individual market can temporarily halt or freeze trading and only under certain circumstances. This reeks of hypocrisy because a bunch of nerds on Reddit figured out how to expose that the market is inherently a fraudulent business.
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Apple's $111.4B Q1 shatters quarterly record with massive growth across all categories
Oh, come on Mel. Don’t use that tired old cliché about conservatives. Conservatives tend to be quite generous when it comes to donating money or time. What conservatives don’t abide is government or businesses wasting the money of others on their own private causes, as Tim is clearly doing. Tim should be as generous as he wants with his own salary or stock, not with the stock and cash of the company he works for. Tim does not own Apple. I own Apple. You own Apple. Millions of others own Apple. And if my opinion about Apple doesn’t matter, then neither does yours.melgross said:
Conservatives don’t understand that social responsibility is something that corporations need to have as part of their business plan. Historically, those that do, perform better in the long run, than these that don’t.fastasleep said:
Build Back Better makes more sense than Be Best. 😆SpamSandwich said:Tim just aped the administration’s nonsensical “build back better” line. Major eyeroll.Since Tim is so committed to giving away Apple’s money maybe he should go work in government.They literally cannot spend their cash fast enough. Who gives a fuck if they give a tiny percentage of it away? Tim probably loses a million just using a leaf blower to clear piles or cash to get to his car in the morning.
but conservatism is about greed, really. You know, from the album “The Wall” where there’s the line about “my pie”? They don’t get that the abhorrent greed they display that hurts others is hurting society, and therefor the economy, that powers their own income.
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Apple researching 'light folding' to make periscope lenses for iPhone
It still surprises me in this new era of computational photography they continue to place so much reliance on a small cluster of sensors. Why not drastically increase the number of smaller optical elements in order to synthesize images which would be a combination of image angles, resolutions and light waves more akin to a 3-D scanned, textured and lit scene?
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Apple's $111.4 billion quarter - which analysts were right and which were wrong
Not when the hands are missing.geekmee said:A broken clock is right twice a day. -
Sketchy 'AirPods Studio' image shared by leaker
Burn an Apple leaker? Yes, please. They should be criminally charged.pichael said:Jon Prosser is a little annoyed.
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Apple analyst Gene Munster to leave Piper Jaffray, launch VC firm
LOL. The man is a buffoon and has been a leading counter-indicator of Apple's plans. He should be kept far from prognosticating now and in the future.sog35 said:
Agreeretrogusto said:Even if his numbers and predictions could be hit or miss, I always gave him credit for being one of the only outspoken analysts who believed in Apple back when almost everybody else just saw them as an ant in Microsoft's enormous shadow. Eventually, even the most skeptical (e.g. Katy Huberty) came around to his point of view--as it became impossible to disagree--and some managed to come up with better forecasts, but anybody who listened to him ~15 years ago has made a whole lot of money since then.
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UK police turn to stealing in-use iPhones from suspects on the street, bypassing encryption
Congress creates the laws and the Supreme Court checks them for constitutional violations when cases are presented. It's no more possible for Trump to be a dictator than it was for Obama... and Obama has come closer than almost any president to acting completely outside the restraints of the office.macxpress said:
I'll start a shit storm here...Soli said:1a) We need a "poison finger" option to protect against thieves and unscrupulous governments* compelling us to use our fingerprints.
1b) This is now doable with the new MacBook Pros by creating another account that will launch an app you make with Automator that will call the shell script:shutdown -h now
2) With the number of snatch-and-grab videos of iPhones being stolen that I've seen over the years, I wish that that Apple had an option that will automatically lock your iPhone if it gets disconnected from your Watch. To wit, out of Bluetooth range.
* Redundant statement.
If Trump gets his way...there will be no security on anything. Because...well thats more convenient to government and law enforcement rather than doing it by the book.
Trump has had conversations with Paul Ryan expressing that the office of the presidency has unbalanced the balance of power, so I find it less likely Trump will engage in the type of stuff you imagine.
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Amazon could open over 2,000 grocery stores in massive retail push
This really has absolutely nothing to do with Apple, but it's a fascinating look at how Amazon is set to disrupt retail and the physical shopping experience.
Imagine an Amazon competitor to IKEA or them breaking into a completely automated fast food drive thru concept.
Every retail business better get their act together if they want to survive this. And those morons pushing for a $15/hr minimum wage? This is the future. No or massively reduced minimum wage service sector employees.
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Phil Schiller again defends Touch Bar MacBook Pro's 16GB RAM limitation
These are MacBook Pros, not MacBooks. Professionals are not holding back their disappointment over the compromises Apple made because the engineering compromises do not seem to be to the benefit of making the product more capable and with the users needs in mind.misa said:
Yup.macxpress said:Here we go again....needless 32GB debate Round 2!!!!
Anyone who actually buys this years model of MacBook Pro is going to be disappointed when next years model will likely get 32GB ram and has better battery life.
That said, most people don't need 16GB, let alone 8GB.
Like, right now on my Windows 10 Desktop PC which had 32GB of ram, only 16GB of ram is ever really utilized. I have like 40 tabs open between three web browsers, and 70 tabs open in a text editor. For the sake of not destroying a SSD quickly, more RAM is preferred because it means the page file is rarely used. In fact I have it set to 0MB on my system.
Now what actually uses 16GB? Well first of all only 64bit applications can use it, which means that web browsers (which aren't completely 64-bit aware, nor are they multi-threaded) don't ever make use of more RAM even when it's available. The only application I have that is native 64-bit is Photoshop. Everything else doesn't have much or any advantage to being compiled 64-bit. 64-bit apps wind up a bit faster due to simply not having to go through the WoW32 layer.
A Mac with 32GB or 64GB is overkill and unless you're dealing with Final Cut Pro with 4K videos (including editing videos from an iPhone 6S or 7) you're still not likely to be able to utilize it.
Now, the fact that the RAM is soldered onto the MacBook Pro, means that you should buy the model with the most RAM because you will not be upgrading it. So if you need 32GB, wait for next years model, or don't use a MacBook Pro.