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lkrupp said:

tylersdad said:

This is monumentally bad for privacy. It's making me reconsider my investments in Apple products. My entire family belongs to the Apple ecosystem. We all have some version of the iPhone 12, iPads and Apple Watches. It starts with examining personal pictures ostensibly to prevent child exploitation, but where does it lead? Where does it end? 

If it makes the perverts switch to Android, so be it and good riddance. And I doubt you will leave the platform when you realize you’re still better off with iOS than Android. Google will be doing exactly the same thing shortly as it usually follows Apple in these matters. Who will you go to? Your statement is just a fart in a wind storm. Good luck with it making any difference.

Google's already doing it, as is Microsoft.   See Charles Arthur's comments here:

https://theoverspill.blog/2021/08/06/apple-scanning-child-abuse-imagery-start-up-1609/

I don't get how competition is being restricted.  I'm in the UK and as far as I know I can use whatever credit/debit card I like - it's simply a matter of registering the card and iPhone with the bank/credit company.  The banks and credit companies are still getting their cut.  

The ones being cut out are the advertising companies who think they have a God given right to know anything and everything about the individual.

 

But is Apple really focussing on users?

There's an interesting piece on Fraser Spiers Blog on how a vocal advocate of iPads is moving to a ChromeBook as his default mobile computing device.  The combination of power and portability across several use cases was ultimately too much to ignore.  

To gain the same degree of functionality using Apple kit would require a MacBook and an iPad and whilst Apple may think people will buy one of each, many users faced with the Google ecosystem will not.  The point is that Apple is still focussed on selling devices (iPad + MacBook) whereas the user faced with an all embracing solution is going to go with the cheaper option.  

That may not be true for schools although ChromeBooks apparently are killing the iPad in US schools and it's only a matter of time before the same thing happens in the UK where price is everything.  Whether Apple will bring out something similar to the old e-Mate, with an A12 processor running IOS remains to be seen, but if they don't they really should.  It would give the ChromeBook a run for its money.  

larz2112 said:

I really hope they offer quad-core again using the latest CPUs, 32 GB max memory, and make it user-friendly regarding memory and hard drive upgrades.

Probably not but it will be thinner.....

The only person I know that plays Fornite does it on a game console, so I doubt they could give a toss whether it's on iOS or not.

Agree with others on this thread; using your customers as pawns in your business battles is not good and can easily backfire.

Wesley Hilliard said:

It is tragic. I mourn the death of knowledge, of fact, of reality, of compassion. The only thing left is greed and hate in the people that follow him. It is pitiful.

I'm old enough to remember Bobby Kennedy and can only think his late father must be spinning in his grave.  Seen from this side of the pond, tragic is an inadeaquate description as we watch the death of the America we once knew, or at least thought we knew. 

NYC362 said:

In short, let him think he's won and just slow walk the thing until he finally does his one truly good deed for humanity- disappears. 

twolf2919 said:

By letting web pages affect the color of the bookmark bar, address bar, and tab bar, it's become pretty much impossible to find the active tab when the web page has dark/black background and it's impossible to read bookmark labels when the web page has a white background.