rob53

The thing that bothers me is that American manufacturing largely disappeared from the USA with almost all products coming from China, Japan and the island countries in the far east. Billionaires still make tons of money no matter where things are manufactured. Americans, other than grossly rich ones, can’t afford most products made in the USA. Tariffs will only destroy the USA not help return manufacturing. I hate to say it but most Americans are lazy office workers not manufacturing people. We “import” farm labor and manufacturing workers from south of the border. China isn’t a corrupt country they just have a government that doesn’t work the same way we do. (At least for now. )

Time for Apple to tell India to take a flying leap. Apple produces iPhone there but India doesn't want to allow imported other Apple products. Not going to work. American companies need to stop using India for technical service call centers and see what happens.

gatorguy said:

rob53 said:

Simple, don't answer your phone if you don't know the number. Let it go to voicemail giving you time to figure out if it's real. It wouldn't hurt if the cellular provider was able to capture suspicious phone calls sending them to the DOJ.

If you hadn't noticed, the article says the writer confirmed the number was a Google one, but at the same time noting that numbers can be spoofed. 

My iPhone doesn’t identify the phone number as being from Google so I still wouldn’t answer it. I don’t actively deal with Google so I wouldn’t call that number back, I might call the main Google customer support number or simply ignore the call. 

Simple, don't answer your phone if you don't know the number. Let it go to voicemail giving you time to figure out if it's real. It wouldn't hurt if the cellular provider was able to capture suspicious phone calls sending them to the DOJ.

"All four deal with methods of improving user security" Nothing ever created for sale so was it ever really a patentable product? It was simply an idea that never was used in a product so why should something like this even be patentable?