beltsbear

Maybe get a few contacts out of a phone vs make millions of phones unsafe and foreign products more appealing.  If it works out like the cloud fiasco we can drive another 100 billion out of the US economy.  Which makes the USA stronger, having 100 billion dollars of economic activity or maybe a few bits of information that can probably be gathered elsewhere?

xbit said:

This forum has become a toilet. I don't know why Apple Insider lets such bile be associated with it.

Some of these posts are worthy of flagging. It is one thing to not like someone , another to call an entire group to be degenerates and worse. 

Ok. Great. I have purchased very few Intel products outside of Macs. The Atom was the one I purchased most often, to make small low power servers. I guess I will be switching to ARM servers instead.

Shameful lawsuit.  The feature greatly extended the life of those old phones. 

The author of this story should not have allowed the comments about how this could happen without stating the impossibility of some of them.  If the phone is in a faraday cage or on airplane mode, it is not communicating with phones nearby.  IOS does not have a mesh mode either for anything other than the findmy feature.  And they mention the possibility of running out of power?  Then that is probably what happened.  Someone screwed up in the evidence room.  A charger block was probably an amazon special and broke most likely.  

suddenly newton said:

It sounds like Apple is being asked to install software that prevents the built-in code that auto-deletes/destroys the phone's content when too many bad password are attempted (brute force attack).

In other words, it will give the FBI an unlimited  number of password retries.

To paraphrase Mission Impossible:
"This phone will self-destruct in 5 seconds."

Apple can sort of do this with specialized tools.  The phone memory can be imaged.  Then a new phone with the same serial numbers and other parameters can run that copy and do a few tries.  It would be labor intensive but the limited retries can be gotten around by extreme measures. 

No, actually the whole Chinese media thing works out quite well for Apple. Nobody is certain, and it does not slow existing sales much. If you show ANYTHING tantalizing in the main stream media sales of the current devices will slow down. Trust me, Apple knows what it is doing here.

messagepad2100 said:

sog35 said:

anyone want to guess why Cook choose Harris?

Same reason he picked Cookie Monster.

So who deleted SOG35's comment?