heinzel

Stop making so much sense! 

with revenue of $94.93 beating Wall Street expectations

Whoa, how low was Wall Street’s expectation?! On a different note, I would have expected a billion-fold more from Apple, even if their sales sucked! 

kellie said:

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the secondary cause is every Crowdstrike customer who blindly allowed the update to occur without doing their own testing and validation.  Sure it would be nice to totally trust the vendor, but they don’t suffer the consequences.  
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There apparently was no mechanism for Crowdstrike customers to prevent the Rapid Response template update. This is an automated process that Crowdstrike intends to change in the future to allow customers granular control over the process (see Crowdstrike's Executive Summary):

What is CrowdStrike Doing to Prevent This From Happening Again?

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- Provide customers with greater control over the delivery of Rapid Response Content updates by allowing granular selection of when and where these updates are deployed.
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mfryd said:

There are both advantages and disadvantages to parts pairing.

"Security" also includes physical security.  Locking a phone to a particular Apple ID, and parts pairing both reduce the value of a stolen iPhone.

If an iPhone is locked to a particular Apple ID, it has less value as it can't be used by anyone else.  That means the value in a stolen iPhone is in "parting" it out.  However, if the parts are locked to a particular serial number, they have less value as it can't be used to repair a different phone.

If Apple can reduce the value of a stolen iPhone, then I am safer, as it is less likely that I will get hurt by someone trying to steal my iPhone.

The real question is whether the good done by parts pairing outweighs the bad done by parts pairing.   

One solution is software.   Right now, Apple only allows the pairing of a replacement part if it was purchased from Apple.  They could change this policy.  Instead they could allow pairing of any part, unless that part was already associated with an iPhone that was locked to an Apple ID (or reported as stolen).  That would keep the advantage that the parts to a stolen phone have little value.  Yet it would allow the owner of a broken phone to sell the parts for others to use.   It also allows Apple to continue to restrict replacement parts to genuine Apple parts.

While it seems that a third part screen would not be a security risk, we used to think the same thing about third part USB or FireWire devices.  However clever people have figured out how to hack into computers using these sorts of devices.

I think this is a terrific idea, basically putting software infrastructure in place to allow the user to choose whether to use an Apple-keyed part or a third-party part. It would be part of the registration process for new phones. It also would have to allow phones to be marked for sale or use (if already owned by the person using the parts from a device to repair another device), to keep the parts’ validation chain intact. Finally, devices could drop out of the system when they are no longer supported, and then their parts could be used to repair other devices or be repaired by previously registered parts from other devices without restrictions.

The only drawback that I can see (other than it being a costly process to implement, based on how many software and hardware engineers would need to work on this) is that from the outside this at first seems way more restrictive than what people think is the current status quo, and that it’s difficult to broadcast the details of why to implement a complicated system like this to the public/lawmakers. But then, such was setting up the App Store, and ultimately most people agree that it’s a good idea to track software provenance instead of just installing whatever.

Worth noticing that superior hardware (yet without app support) is available for much less, e.g. currently $1600 for a 1 kWh battery, 750 W motor, 9-speed shifter: https://www.juicedbikes.com/products/crosscurrentx?variant=39461568577600 (disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the manufacturer, but I have owned one of these for the past 5 years, it's been awesome for commuting).