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Hackers obtained LastPass customer data vaults in recent data breach
This sort of failure is why I dropped 1Password last year and moved to Enpass which lets me keep my vaults local and allows WiFi sync amoungst all my devices. 1Password was essentially forcing everyone into their cloud solution and I just refuse to do that. Plus, most of the password managers have gone to subscription plans and Enpass offers a lifetime purchase. Enpass has some quirks and bugs, but I can live with that in return for not forcing me into the cloud.
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Angela Ahrendts, the 'non-techie' who runs Apple Retail, joined Apple on October 14, 2013
Five posts and a link to the daily caller. Nuff sed.StayPuftZombie said:What an overly generous puff piece.
Angela has added some plants, pulled the "Store" off the stores' names, removed lanyards, killed the genius bar and added logistical chaos and worse training to the stores. That's the sum total, other than collecting gobs of ill earned money, of her years of tenure at apple.
She took what was for many the best retail experience ever, where an apple store was something you enjoyed visiting, and turned it the DMV. Now instead of heading for the genius bar for your appointment, you start with game of human pinball.
Find an apple employee, with no lanyard as a visual cue, that's holding an iPad to get to your appointment. When you find the first one, you ask for your appointment, and they inform you, theyre not the person for that and send you to another one. You go to that employee that you think they pointed to, but they're not it either. Finally you get to the person with the appointment clip board, and they play, let's pick a table. They send you to some random table and log your name/position. Now, the genius plays Apple Store Maps. The "genius" now goes around the table asking for you (mispronouncing your name at times), and sometimes goes to the wrong table because the position was logged wrong. Or a person misunderstood what table they are to meet at. All this wastes both your and the apple employees time in pinball'ing around when everyone could just have instead, clearly and easily, met at the genius bar. Then, when the apple employee finally ends their game of hunt-and-go-seek, you are rewarded by talking to a 'genius' that no longer talks to you like you understand something and 'jumps to the chase' but instead, they walk you through a script process, because now the vast number of geniuses have become equivalent script kiddies. No brain, all script. Oh, and you do this all through intolerable crowds of other now grumpy store goers.
In contrast, Steve Job's created genius bar was not only a signature feature that she destroyed, but something that calmed not caused store logistical chaos. You just head to the back for your appointment, simple. No DMV zombie human pinball hordes bouncing off each other from 'Angela's DMV Apple Emporium' 'improvements'. Also, it kept all the grumpy people with problems away from the people shopping, preventing the spread of DMV'itus throughout the store.
In other words, the apple store, the highest earning per square foot retail store in the world that Angela inherted, has been turned into the apple DMV, by angela, that I (and many others https://dailycaller.com/2018/03/15/apple-store-dmv/) want to avoid at all costs.
My fear is apple managment (and now with the help of appleinsider) are positioning angela as the next CEO apparent, which will be a disaster of the likes to make us long for the days of Skully.
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Apple's AirPort base stations are gone, and we wish they weren't
People keep bringing up 5G. Couple of problems there. First, it is not rolling out widespread any time soon. Some companies are doing small scale installs, but it will be years before it is ubiquitous. Dropping the Airports now would be way too early if you are going to argue 5G is the reason. Second, most of the carriers plan to deploy 5G in the higher frequencies which is actually millimeter wave radio. Radio waves at that frequency can't penetrate, walls, windows or even leaves on trees. Outdoors there will be small transceivers installed everywhere - on top of light posts, traffic lights, corners of buildings, the walls of buildings - they will be a plague of boxes, antennas and fiber optic cables. If you want 5G inside your home you will need some as yet non-existant hardware to bring the radio waves inside and distribute them to each room. Yeah, that sounds practical. 5G is going to take a very long time to reach the ubiquity of 4G. In fact what I have been reading says that 4G will always reamain in use as a fallback for the frequent times your phone drops off 5G. Yep, 4G will never go away.
I gotta figure that for the Airports, some person inside Apple has charts and graphs for every product line showing expenses, profitability, growth potential etc. etc. Obviously the charts and graphs showed the Airport division was waning and becoming unprofictable. Apple runs their business in a very different way from a lot of compnies, but they still want divisions to make money. Like someone said, the routers from the cable companies/ISPs get the job done and probably severely ate into Airport revenue over the lat 10 years. I will miss them and there's no way Apple is bringing them back. It's goodbye forever.
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Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute are Apple's answer to generative AI
For me today's event was a huge information and feature overload. I am not a developer and a pretty low level user of OS features as it is, so all this new stuff was exciting, but also a bit off putting from a "it's all too much" standpoint. However, it really is very impressive how much effort Apple puts into their privacy efforts along with expanding features. As someone said above, this puts Apple in a unique position in the AI space compared to literally everyone else. Pretty sure the financial analysts won't understand the implications of today's event and the stock price will drop initially.
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Apple is readied for an entire week of M4 Mac announcements
9secondkox2 said:No more “band” news please.
One of the most stressful and traumatic jobs in local television news was the Chyron operator. This person typed in all the name supers, sports scores, weather reports and other text based graphics used in the live newscast. A lot of the data comes in late and even during the newscast. Chyron operators are typing, listening and sending supers to the output channel for air. Back in the 80s at KXAN in Ft. Worth/Dallas news inters who showed soem initiative would be trained up and allowed to do newscasts on occasion. One time a we were doing a story about some conflict between a school and the marching band. The intern typed "Bad Parent" instead of "Band Parent" for an interview with one of the involved parents - that's how it went to air. There was an on-air apology later in the newscast. Nowadays most news supers are generated by the script managment software and controlled by the newscast producer. I think some stations don't even have Chyron Operators any longer. Chyron was a ubiquitous brand of text generator with few competitors back in the day, thus the name "Chyron" being used generically by TV people like Xerox was for copiers. The first Chyron I used had core plane memory - that's how long they've been around. They still exist, but the market is totally different today. So yeah, no more band news.
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Apple agrees to $50M settlement in MacBook butterfly keyboard lawsuit
DAalseth said:Thanks Jony
Don't see his name on the patent.
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2015047612A3/en
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Apple is once again advertising on X, more than a year after stopping all ads on the platf...
drblank said:
Elon funds far right wing extremist group AfD in Germany politics, and I watched an interview of Elon's father admit that Elon's grand father in Canada supported the Nazis. My father served in WWII and he would be absolutely disgusted by the support of Elon and X if he was stlll alive. It seems as though America is becoming a cross between Nazi Germany and Russia. disgusting. Tim has no moral compass.macrumorssucks said:As you can tell from my username, I’m not happy Macrumors closed comments on this mundane story.
We the people should be able to comment on any story. Thank you AppleInsider for keeping the flow of opinions open.
That said, who cares. X is the #1 social media platform for news. Why shouldn’t they advertise on X. It makes smart business sense. It makes more sense than the Apple Vision Pro toy for $3500
I'm an old American. I have observed my entire life that Americans never really hated the NAZIs - at least those born after the war. Post war the American fascination with everything German and NAZI was widespread. We even made a sitcom about Germans and NAZIs. People ravenously collected any sort of WWII German memorabilia and the more NAZI it was the more valuable it became. I knew some people who had a German Shephard named Rommel and a little black cat with a white face and tiny black mustache named Adolf. Americans have been obsessed with NAZIs for a long, long time and it'snot surprising that once a national figure gave them permission to openly love NAZIsm that they would jump at the chance. Tim is no NAZI and is doing his duty as CEO to protect the company and the shareholders from destruction. Not to mention I believe Tim really loves Apple and he won't let anyone hurt it.
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RenAIssance: How Apple will drag Siri into the modern era
For me there is always this bit of discomfort using Siri - it just feels weird talking out loud, but not to a person. I don't even like talking on a cell phone around other people unless there is no convenient place for privacy, not to mention it's rude to people nearby. Regardless of my hangups, Siri of course often fails at simple requests and it would be nice to see it improve. Her inability to find and play specific songs or even bands is pretty maddening. As far as using Siri for complex requests, I would think most of the time it would be easier to just do it yourself on a Mac or phone rather than wasting time to figure out how to get Siri to understand what it is you want. Is AI really going to improve Siri's request comprehension or just make it worse? We'll see I guess.
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BBC cries foul over Apple Intelligence headline notification summarizations
So it sort of seems like the AI pushers are trying to get us accustomed to it's quirks nd unreliability. That way when it or they start using it to purposefully lie and manipulate, we won't notice or care.
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The LastPass hack saga just keeps getting worse
I'm not familiar with the details of IT security, programming, etc., but come on!. If you are tasked with keeping thousands of people's personal data safe, you don't let employees take anything outside the secure facilities. Doesn't matter who they are, how good they are or their position in the company - nothing ever leaves the building. Also, using third parties for any part of data storage is also irresponsible IMO. You can never know for sure a vendor is doing what they are supposed to or in what way they are going to screw up. Keep it all in house, locked down and triple secured in every way you can. This is an old doc, but you can get a good idea of how seriously Apple takes security even to the point of destroying the access cards for their hardware security modules used for iCloud: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2174973/apple-reveals-unprecedented-details-in-ios-security.htmlLast Pass is lazy, stupid or greedy - or all three.
