damonf

Soooooo what was the FBI saying about "Just this once" regarding the San Bernardino iPhone?  Looks like "more than once" to me.

zeus423 said:

Is it possible to NOT have the display always on with the Pro?  I seriously do not need that extra light on my nightstand at night or while the phone is in my pocket. 

Yes, you can definitely have your sleeping iPhone 14 Pro like prior iPhones with no always-on display. Source: “iPhone User Guide”, the iOS 16 edition released today (available in Apple’s Books app). Search for “always on” and you’ll find you can disable always-on. It also mentions there are scenarios where the display is temporarily turned off: when starting a CarPlay session, when the phone is flipped face down, when it senses a paired Apple Watch is not nearby, and when sleep mode is activated (or otherwise around the time you generally stop using your phone when you go to bed). 

AppleInsider said:

Back in April, Emergency SOS also saved a snowboarder in Switzerland. On a solo trip at about 10,000 feet altitude, Tim Blakey fell into a hidden crevasse in the snow.

Despite an iPhone battery life of 3%, he could use Emergency SOS to contact emergency services. Rescuers found him and took him to the hospital for an injured ankle.

I presume "April" is supposed to be some other month, given the satellite version of Emergency SOS didn't gen enabled until November.  The service was not available in April 2022.

The number “9” strongly suggests that there will only be 3 models of iPhone 12 (12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max) in a 3-carrier/band mix per model: 

1. World phone #1 (with CDMA)
2. World phone #2 (without CDMA)
3. China or Japan phone (likely China)

This fits to the same 3-carrier/band mix of the iPhone 11/11 Pro/11 Pro Max (9 phone models for the “11” family in all).  Also fits to the iPhone 8 and 8 Max (total of 6 models for the whole “8” family). And it also fits to the iPhone SE, which also has only 3 models and in similar configurations.  Interestingly, TechWalls shows the 3rd iPhone 8 model being for Japanese carriers (with Chinese carriers getting the World phone #1 with CDMA), but the 3rd iPhone 11 and SE models for Chinese carriers (with Japanese carriers using World phone #2 without CDMA).  

Xed said:

So this guy had ADP enabled but probably also used a PIN instead of a complex passcode for his device?

Personally, I waited a long time before enabling ADP because of the very clear warnings Apple gives before enabling it.

AppleInsider said:

While under ADP the Recovery Key is needed, the suit insists that Apple is still capable of doing something about the situation. Mathews' lawyer K. Jon Breyer says it is "indefensible" for Apple to hold onto the data "they don't own."

We'd hate to do that so we'll go ahead and delete that encrypted file off our servers by deleting your iCloud account. Happy?

Whereas I disagree with the suit that Apple can do anything after the fact for this user, it is rather dumb that ADP exists to protect iCloud data tied to an Apple Account (formerly Apple ID), yet in the enabling/disabling process for ADP there is never a prompt from the Settings app to enter one's Apple Account password to proceed.  All it takes is snatching someone's unlocked iPhone out of their hands and running off and quickly enabling ADP.  The ability to enable it without so much as having to enter one's Apple Account password despite the fact that it can lock one out of iCloud data is preposterous.  It is too easy to enable and needs some additional safeguards to prevent abuse.

pjohnt said:

"Decimated" literally means to reduce by 10%.  This word is used incorrectly all the time.

How about a new term:

elon (verb): to announce intentions to buy a multi-billion dollar company, waiver on that commitment, then be legally bound to consummate the purchase, followed by letting go a large amount of staff thus bringing instability to the company's operations, changing policies daily that confuse the company's customers/users and cast doubt on the company's ability to provide value to them, insisting your remaining employees have no work/life balance, all leading to the ultimate demise of the very company you hoped to improve, simultaneously casting massive public skepticism on your abilities as a leader and a humane person.

Example: After he eloned the heck out of Twitter, who in their right mind would want to go to Mars as his employee?

gsteeno said:

Blunt said:

The numbers of the watch face are italic but why is sat italic and steps not? Makes no sense. You don't care? Well I do. Details… Samsung almost never pays attention.

Good eye, and spot-on comment.

They practically lifted the “running man” Workout app icon from Apple Watch. Such amazing innovation and originality. 

How about a U.S. law:

Any U.S. based company instructed by any foreign country to decrypt data of Americans or required to disable decryption of American citizens’ devices (such as computers, phones, or tablets) must immediately cease all operations - including but not limited to sales, support, and services - in said country until such order is rescinded by said country.

The intent not being to hurt the company being asked (Apple, in this case), but to preempt such attempts with a harsh, effective punishment to the offending country. 

gatorguy said:

SpamSandwich said:

When the reason for the sales appeal of the whole device to the consumer is stolen, what then?

Then the jury is free to award the total profits. The difference is that the Federal Court interpreted the law as mandating that the entire profits be awarded with no option for a lesser amount no matter how minor the design infringement was. TBH Apple should be happy it went this way ( and probably are in some regard IMHO). It could have been a penny saved and a pound wasted in some future design patent award if they were on the hook instead. 

It would've been a double-edged sword for Apple had it gone the other way: all these lawsuits against Apple for LTE, FaceTime, etc. patents would've been bad had it been the "based on entire profit" ruling and Apple lost or didn't settle those cases.  So on the bright site, this will give Apple great leverage in the patent infringement suits brought against it, as "profits" relating to individual infringing components / software code would amount to mere pennies (perhaps even fractions of pennies) per device, give then many, many features/functions that make up the iPhone.  Perhaps Apple will now go back to that FaceTime peer-to-peer patent holder and make an offer to license now under much more favorable terms, so that FaceTime could go back to the way it was in the iPhone 4 initially (peer-to-peer, no connection via Apple servers). 

Siri integration only works with calls so far, not messaging in Skype. You can't say "Siri, send a message to 'xx' via Skype" like you can with WhatsApp.