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I guess there are not enough mobile phone users, that carries a mobile phone, primarily to have a phone with them. My brother didn't upgrade his iPhone 7 until the 12 mini. He's not using his iPhone for any social network, to surf the web, play ga…
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ronn said: Kierkegaarden said: ronn said: Today Apple Glasgow reached an agreement on pay after negotiations. Members voted to reject Apple’s pay model and have instead won minimum increases and compensation for all members of s…
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aderutter said: Hmm… that just made me think… maybe Apple can charge users to enable other app stores, let’s say £49 a year. Does the bullsheet act specifically disallow this? All apple have to do is to only allow third party app stores i…
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I wonder if this, have anything to do with this ...... https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/04/chinas-app-rule-changes-applied-everywhere-but-the-app-store
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Alex1N said: How come Google Play gets a free kick? Conspicuous from its abs ence in the lait in the article. Lots of alternatives to iMessage - Signal, Telegram, Discord, LINE… Because Android allow third party app stores and there are …
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From what I read and still only rumored as it's still not officially verified by either Google or Apple, Google do not "pay" Apple any negotiated lump sum to be the default search engine on Safari. It's what Apple has to do for Google in exchange fo…
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Alex_V said: A lot of nonsense being expressed about the EU, by those who don’t know and don’t care. Here is basic info on the EU 'gatekeepers law': https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age…
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foregoneconclusion said: davidw said: foregoneconclusion said: Here's the obvious problem for all the people claiming there is some sort of major privacy issue at stake with CSAM scanning in this thread: Apple already scans file…
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foregoneconclusion said: Here's the obvious problem for all the people claiming there is some sort of major privacy issue at stake with CSAM scanning in this thread: Apple already scans files uploaded to iCloud for illegal content. That was a…
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entropys said: I can’t figure out why there is a middleman here. Just go with starlink directly and reduce the endless fiddling around with making sure the iPhone antenna is placed correctly. Emergency service for free as part of the phone pu…
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>"Child sexual abuse is stored on iCloud. Apple allows it."
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kmkmd said: You’re more comfortable using a $10 pulse oximeter from Amazon that was probably made in the same factory that makes 1,000 other unrelated products? Good luck to you. I don't know much about the specific allegations surr…
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foregoneconclusion said: davidw said: That's the function of "mute". That is still available. A user can "mute" another user and not ever have to see any of their comments. That's your right to "freedom of association". However, when a u…
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drdavid said: coolfactor said: Oh, hail thee great Musk.... (bows to the great one) Blocking gets abused too much by those that want to have the last word without hearing a rebuttal, so I applaud this experimental change. Abused?…
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gatorguy said: davidw said: gatorguy said: Isn't support for SMS falling by the wayside, and deprecation set to accelerate? Microsoft no longer supports SMS for some sign-in types, including new devices and multi-factor authen…
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gatorguy said: Isn't support for SMS falling by the wayside, and deprecation set to accelerate? Microsoft no longer supports SMS for some sign-in types, including new devices and multi-factor authenticationFacebook/Meta Messenger will no lo…
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applebynature said: Your headline and the first two sentences are FALSE. It's subscribers, not subscriptions. They likely have had several billion subscriptions for quite a while. This new milestone is stating that there are 1 Billion individ…
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Skeptical said: Could it be that people are iPhone saturated and people aren’t dying to get one? Pure conjecture but this could be a consideration. FYI- The global mobile phone market been saturated for several years now. Over 95% of peop…
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FileMakerFeller said: Gatcha games are a whole other can of worms, but it would be good to see legislation limiting the use of probability-based rewards. I have no problem with more-or-less equivalent items being randomly provided, but the ga…
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greg price said: The symptoms sound more like it's a calibration issue, not serialization. Just because someone knows how to solder some components doesn't mean they understand the design and hence how to repair something. Just because o…