rob53

22july2013 said:

The ITC has a role in resolving legal issues regarding trade and importation. It isn't a court, and doesn't use a jury, but its findings can be reviewed by a court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_International_Trade_Commission

I think AliveCor is considering the Apple Watch to be an imported product, therefore it may fall under the ITC's jurisdiction. I've always thought of Apple products as American products, but maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe all of Apple's products are "foreign products" and are therefore subject to ITC jurisdiction.

Apple products, like 90% of all products sold in the USA, should not be considered imported. They are merely manufactured by a contracted company for sale by Apple. If the ITC considers them imported then 99% of electronic devices are imported, 99% of clothing is imported and, unfortunately, 90% of printed goods are imported. Does the ITC really want to go there?

dr. x said:

I wonder what VMWare is up to and if they will provide support for M1?

Just announced: Dell is spinning out VMware. Might not mean anything but VMware seems to be bouncing all over the place so not sure what's going to happen. VMware is hosted on other operating systems, it's not really a big seller on macOS. The majority of VMware products don't even work on macOS so I'm sure it will be a long wait although it might be shorter if ARM destroys Intel thereby destroying X86. If Microsoft wants its software only to run on X86 platforms then it will continue to lose customers.

Mike Wuerthele said:

Stopthebully said:

Wow, like there isn’t enough hackings. Also i would never trust a big tech with my PI. Just saying.

I don't even fully know how to respond to this.

Whatever ISP you use already has it, which means that Google or Facebook either already have it, or can get it easily. If you read AppleInsider, odds are, Apple has it already. Or, if you're a veteran, it's been leaked six times by the feds in the last 20 years. Nearly every state DMV has had a data breach of some sort.

Mike, I'll respond for you.

@Stopthebully (not sure which bully they're talking about), small tech, medium tech, large tech, and government tech has been storing your PII (personally identifiable information is the proper term) for decades. There's no other way to store it so it can be used by multiple organizations that you want it shared with.

As for Apple being used for voting, you need to do some reading to understand how current Apple technology would allow an iPhone (maybe also a non-Apple phone) to act as a secure entry device. It's already being used in this way with Apple Pay. An encrypted token from your approved/registered iPhone (when you register to vote) is sent to the Apple Pay server for validation. Once validated, the purchase is processed. As a voting entry device, an app would have the approved list of candidates and measures, the voter would click on who/what they want, press a pre-approval button so you could check everything, then a VOTE button to send in your vote. Just like buying something from a restaurant or store. Could this be hacked? Has Apple Pay been hacked (yet)? Apple hasn't done a voting system YET because it requires lots of government approval and TOO MANY REPUBLICANS would challenge anything that makes it easier to vote. 

sevenfeet said:

I’m old enough to remember Photoshop 1.0 on the 68000 Macs. Architecture transitions predate PowerPC-Intel.

So am I and I bet most of the code hasn’t changed significantly which is why Adobe has had issues. They also turned to Windows relegating Mac development to the back burner. I would like to know if Adobe actually rewrote the software to make use of Apple’s Core technologies like Pixelmator and others have done to achieve all the speed and ML capabilities Apple offers.  

I wonder if Costco is being investigated because they only allow their own gift card or Visa cards, not Amex (anymore), MasterCard, or Discover. Isn't this the same thing? Costco has a contract with Visa and only Visa (Visa controls all cards distributed by banks and other financial institutions, they are all Visa cards). Isn't this payment system anti-competitive? This type of payment process happens all over the place so why would, in this case the Dutch, any country only go after Apple for providing a single payment system when other companies do the same thing? Oh, wait, because they want a cut of Apple's money, that's why.