rob55

voodooru said:

the crapple apologists are out in full force. not surprised 

None of you clowns make a living from
music. So you truly don't understand. 

This has nothing to do with being Apple apologists, as this affects Spotify as well. And perhaps you're the one who doesn't understand, as Mr. Carter's move is akin to cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, all to manipulate people into subscribing to his floundering streaming service.

llsorens said:

Can the RAM be upgraded on these new iMacs by the user

This could indicate that it might be, because the cover was released the same way on previous iMacs. Certainly not definitive though.

They should be careful what they wish for. Do they really want to invite that kind of comparison? 

"Our teams have submitted our privacy labels to Apple but Apple's template does not shed light on the lengths apps may go to protect sensitive information,"

Do these guys listen to themselves talk? They make it sound like a bad thing. 

tzeshan said:

melgross said:

tzeshan said:

I think FaceID can be easily compromised by hard core criminals.

Did you really think, or are you just saying it? As they said, no security is perfect, but this is pretty good. They even made a point of saying that it’s the best “consumer” technology, recognizing that governmental and large corporate systems, with their supervision of the site itself being a part of it, are more secure. Military installations that use fingerprint or iris recognition have two armed guards watching to make sure nobody does anything to cheat the system.

I am thinking that a dummy head may be used to unlock. Unless FaceID can see details of the skin, 

Check the keynote at 1:31:22. They specifically addressed this in the presentation. They used Hollywood mask-makers and makeup artists to create these "dummy heads" for the engineers to use to train the neural networks to recognize these kinds of fakes.

Shit, if someone wants to go to that much trouble to get into your phone, well...

crowley said:

rob55 said:

Funny story, I asked a 20-something co-worker if he thought he would be interested in lossless audio if Apple offered it, and he asked, "what's lossless?"

I hope you responded with 

"it's when they include all of the sound that you probably can't hear anyway and make your data usage quintuple"

I mentioned this on another thread on the topic, but there are settings that allow your streaming app to fall back to low(er) bitrate lossy audio when you're not on WiFi. You'll also be able to download your favorite tracks / playlists to your device beforehand so you don't use any data.

I can stream my lossless audio library via Plex natively, and my data usage is just fine. I just make sure I'm on WiFi, or I download what I want to listen to while I am. For everything else, there's Spotify at 96 / 160 / 320 kb/s.

I love how they try to make their motives sound so altruistic by saying, "...and protect customers from devastating, monopolistic fees imposed by big tech companies." 
Would someone please think of the children!!! 

So shocking to see this happen to executives of such an impeccably ethical company. /s

cloudguy said:

"Even if you fundamentally disagree with Facebook's business model... you do need to acknowledge that Apple's actions are severely harming it."

Sure, if your business model is fundamentally flawed because the way you acquire data is shady at best, then it will suffer when you are forced to be more transparent about your practices. I don't see that as Apple's problem.

These m-f'ers were allegedly behind the ransomware attack on my workplace. Great to see the tables turned on them.

GeorgeBMac said:

sdw2001 said:

Count me amongst those who find this absolutely hilarious.  Bullying? Because they use a color to distinguish iMessages from texts?  ROTFL.  

NBC News (streaming version) just did a piece on it and how (mostly young) people feel self-conscious about sending green texts while iPhone users find them obnoxious:

"Ewww!  Green Text!  Yuck! That's creepy!"

None of this is evidence of Apple doing the bullying. It's all on the end users doing it. This is no different than poking fun at the kid with cheap sneakers. Perhaps Hiroshi Lockheimer has a pair of Bronax jogging sneakers.