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  • Apple's iPhone X passes twin test in early hands-on with Face ID

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    dabrace1984 said:
    CNN did a test with two identical female twins and they were able to beat the FaceID security.

    http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2017/10/31/iphone-x-first-impressions.cnnmoney

    They cheated. They enrolled the first twin and immediately tried the second twin.
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  • Apple iPhone 8 Plus vs Google Pixel 2 XL: camera is only part of the package

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    k2kw said:
    cropr said:
    cali said:
    Biased article. 

    Bring up every advantage iPhone has and ignore the disadvantages.

    Pixels voice assistant is 3-4 years more advanced than useless Siri.

    Pixels image quality is superior despite less features. Watch the blind tests on YouTube. You'll pick the pixel every single time.

    Pixel will tell you what song is playing without unlocking the screen.

    Pixels cloud storage of the photos (free, full quality) is way more convenient and accessible than iCloud which is garbage.

    Pixel is Android, and thus, way more customizable. Not everyone wants just a mess of app icon on their home screens. We have widgets on our home screens so we can get info at a glance. And our battery life is just as good. 

    You also bring up Google copying live photos. Android has had fast charging for years. Oled screens for years. Where do you think apple got those, and other ideas? All smart phone companies copy each other.


    I knew an unbiased DED article would bring out the one post morons.

    1. It’s an iPhone. Of course it will be better than a cheap knockoff. Common sense.

    2. Siri and the Siri knockoff BOTH have problems there is no “years better”. It’s 2017 and we have a long way to go. One things for sure, Siri has a nicer voice than the robotic wannabe and it won’t send your info to an advertising company. 

    3. Pixels photo quality is superior? Typical sheep. Did you not read the article? iPhone does real bokeh. It’s an iPhone.

    4. Pixel tells you what song is playing without asking? Must be that spying microphone goog uses to sell
    your personal data. Nothing goog offers is without security compromise, that’s how they make money. I hope a hacker gets a hold of your data.

    5. Free cloud storage? Yeah google is also snooping through your personal data and selling it to 3rd parties.
    iCloud isn’t garbage and it’s a lot more secure than the spyware offering.

    6. Pixel is android meaning it’s an iPhone knockoff that sells your private info to 3rd parties and is wide open meaning it has 99% of all mobile malware.

    7. Google’s Android is a copy of iPhone and iOS. The whole market is a copy.

    Maybe I shouldn’t have replied to a thick-headed iPhone knockoff fan but stupidity is a pet peeve of mine and the spread of mis-information is something we shall never allow. 
    There is no such thing as an unbiased DED article.  It is written from his perspective which is fine for me  but don't call it unbiased.  If he's saying that the Pixel is more expensive, he just forgot to take  the cost of the overpriced and crappy iCloud storage into account, which is a key item when comparing photo solutions.


    That said I think the big sellers 2H2017 will be the Samsung S8, followed by iPhone 8/8Plus, iPhone X, iPhone 7 and Note over the Pixel 2. 


    Most ridiculous thing I’ve read. The best sellers will be iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X with the S8 a very distant 4th.

    At their peak, Samsung could barely get close to selling half as many phones as Apple. And that was years ago before their sakes tanked and Apple continued to set records.
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  • Microsoft reveals Surface Book 2 hybrid tablets, claims they're twice as powerful as Apple...

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    Twice as fast.

    I didn't know the latest Intel CPUs were twice as fast as the previous model. Oh wait, they're pulling the same stunt as last year - comparing integrated graphics in a MBP to a dedicated GPU in the Surface and claiming 2x as fast.
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  • With iPhone 8, Apple's Silicon Gap widens as the new A11 Bionic obliterates top chips from...

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    gradly said:
    Sucks for Samsung to have 4K resolution in a handheld device that no human eye can resolve; i.e., it's a bad design decision to drive that many pixels, but it was done for marketing to people who purchase based on a list of specs.
    I actually wonder if higher dpi will make it a lot better when you use those cardbox VR things  

    Trolls used to make fun of Macs because they lacked the GPU to properly do VR, which requires a LOT of GPU horsepower (though Apple has rectified this with their new iMac Pro).

    Then they turn around and claim you need a 4K screen to do VR properly because you need the high resolution for an immersive experience.

    Do any Samsung (or other "VR capable" phones) have a GPU with the equivalent power of something like a GTX 1080? Because that's the amount of power you need to drive a VR 4K display properly at a high enough frame rate for VR.

    VR on phones is a non-starter.
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  • Apple's 'differential privacy' still collects too much specific data, study says

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    gatorguy said:
    lkrupp said:
    Meanwhile they give Google a gold star? WTF?

    They don't give that to the entirety of Google - only to RAPPOR, a tiny subset of their data gathering.

    Though many people like to throw around Google and differential privacy together to infer Google uses it in all their products/services.
    Evidently, considering your tone, you are not aware Apple's use of differential privacy is also fairly limited at the moment: Only new words, emojis, deeplinks, and lookup hints in Notes up until earlier this year. Very recently some iCloud data testing was added.

    You are making the same mistake of throwing differential privacy and Apple together as tho they are using it in all their products and services. They are not. DF is still an immature project at both companies, and both will eventually make more extensive use of it. Learning to walk before they run. 

    It's irrelevant where they are today, but where they are going.

    Google makes its revenue off data collection which it then uses for its advertising business. It's not in their best interests to incorporate technology that would otherwise interfere with or limit their ability to target ads.

    In the other thread there was a discussion about Google writing code to exploit a flaw in Safari to circumvent do not track. Is this the kind of company that has the privacy and interests of its users as its primary concern? Hardly. What it shows me is a company that's not to be trusted as they will always make decisions that benefit their primary revenue source (advertising).

    Differential privacy and targeted advertising do not mix well.
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