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  • 5G iPhone unlikely until 2020, given Intel modem announcement

    coolfactorcoolfactor
    TELUS in Canada has been working with Huawei for a few years to prepare for the 5G rollout on their carrier networks. I wonder how that's changing given Huawei being in hot water lately. 2020 sounds realistic if they need to change equipment providers.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • How to make PDFs in macOS Mojave without any extra software

    coolfactorcoolfactor
    Fun fact... the Mac user interface is actually rendered using PDF, at least it was in the beginning. It's likely evolved well past that, as Quartz has evolved.
    It is widely stated that Quartz "uses PDF internally" (notably by Apple in their 2000 Macworld presentation and Quartz's early developer documentation[5]), often by people making comparisons with the Display PostScript technology used in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP (of which macOS is a descendant). Quartz's internal imaging model correlates well with the PDF object graph, making it easy to output PDF to multiple devices.[6]

    watto_cobrajony0

  • iPhone XS 4G speeds at least 26 percent faster than predecessors, study shows

    coolfactorcoolfactor
    hexclock said:
    Just pulled this off my XR. Just be my lucky day. 

    Must be my lucky day, too. Or AppleInsider needs to do some fact-checking.

    XR. Bell network in Canada. 

    - 183 Mbps down
    - 38 Mbps up

    That seems way faster than this article claims.


    racerhomie3

  • New York state begins probe into Apple's FaceTime vulnerability

    coolfactorcoolfactor
    I support this. If Apple was aware of the situation, but failed to take precautions until *after* they received media attention, then they should be held accountable.
    agilealtitudewilliamlondon

  • Apple slapped with lawsuit over Group FaceTime bug

    coolfactorcoolfactor
    Convenient timing.

    Apple does need to be questioned for why they responded in the way that they did, and I'd like to know who fed this information to the media, unless the media figured it out on their own after seeing the original tweets by the mother? It sounds like she handled it as well as expected, and that Apple did not take her reports seriously in the beginning. Now they are paying a price for that.

    I always call companies out for blaming the consumer and not taking personal responsibility. Every time that a customer support agent refuses to acknowledge a problem being reported to them, I call them out. My bank was down today, and some of their Twitter reps continued to offer me help getting the problem fixed, as if it was something at my end... and this was hours after the problem started! Yah, I don't stand for that. I don't blame the individual reps, I blame the overall company for a poor setup.

    racerhomie3williamlondonlkruppdysamoria