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  • Australian teen hacked Apple's corporate network, accessed data and user accounts

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    racerhomie3 said:
    What kind of Apple fan uses Whatsapp ,a Facebook product?
    Network effects are powerful. Outside the US, Whatsapp is the common way to message where FB messenger, Google Hangouts/Chat/Allo/etc. never caught on. You use what all your contacts use.
    maciekskontaktalbegarclazybug7lostkiwi

  • Podcast discusses the new MacBook Pro, alleged industrial espionage, and iOS USB Restricte...

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    Why no LTE on Apples laptops?  High end laptops that lack business options...
    I own a Samsung Chromebook with an LTE option in it. It came with a month of free service. The one time I tried to activate it to take advantage of it, it was a complete cluster-nightmare. 

    Your need makes total sense - we have phones with LTE, we have iPads with LTE, watches with LTE, why not laptops? But at the same time, how many lines of service do you want to pay for?

    The laptop with LTE plan would not be the same as a tablet or watch add-on fee. Seems like a lot of effort and expense for something that I imagine relatively few people would take advantage of?
    jony0

  • Google's Gmail, other services let third parties read user emails, report says

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    Rayz2016 said:
    gatorguy said:
    It’s easy enough to not use a Gmail account. What’s a lot more difficult is not e-mailing with anybody who uses Gmail, which matters because presumably Google can read incoming messages too, and so often the incoming message content is included in a response, so third parties can read your e-mail whether or not you ever agreed to anything. 
    If you're using Edison or Airmail or Spark on your Apple device can those developers "read" an email sent from me to your Apple email account? No one has answered that yet so perhaps you know?

    @williamlondon @StrangeDays ; @Rayz2016 ; @chasm @ericthehalfbee @bestkeptsecret ; , do any of you know? You're all generally pretty knowledgeable about this stuff.



    Common sense tells me that Apple must be able to read the emails because their kit can read emails out loud, but what's your point?

    isn't that done in local processing on the device, not 'apple reading the emails'?
    williamlondon

  • Google's Gmail, other services let third parties read user emails, report says

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    gatorguy said:
    Rayz2016 said:
    It’s easy enough to not use a Gmail account. What’s a lot more difficult is not e-mailing with anybody who uses Gmail, which matters because presumably Google can read incoming messages too, and so often the incoming message content is included in a response, so third parties can read your e-mail whether or not you ever agreed to anything. 

    Mmm.

    That's a good point.  I didn't agree to Google and its partners reading emails I sent to a gmail account.  
    Google isn't reading emails. Agreed you didn't agree to anyone's else's app provider scanning them. I didn't agree to Microsoft or Yahoo or Zoho or most any other email service to do so either, yet because of organizer apps supplied from Apple's App Store it's quite likely my business appointments or social plans have made their way thru some 3rd party scanner installed on an acquaintance iPhone. 

    Curious if you install certain 3rd party planner/organizer apps. for example Edison or Airmail, if you grant some of those access to your Apple/iCloud Mail? I honestly don't know if Apple allows those types of apps. They allow them to access your calendar for instance but is email off-limits? 

    EDIT: After doing some small amount of research it appears Apple too allows apps to link to Mail.app. Can you confirm? It looks like it's not just Google and Microsoft and Yahoo and everyone else. 
    Links to mail.app are not the same thing. They can open a new message with a mailto: url, but they can't read email, which is what the concern is.
    williamlondon

  • Apple won't use Intel's 5G modem in future iPhones [u]

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    sergioz said:
    I wonder why Apple wouldn’t integrate modem right in their powerful A chip? Android friends have been enjoying these benefits for a while now. I believe Intel foundry is not up to speed on making things smaller and more energy efficient? Even Qualcomm chips have been producing 10 nanometer chips for a while now. 
    Could you list some of the processors that have wireless cellular radios integrated into them? 
    Alex1N