thrang said:

How many people use their phone with a case? I'm guessing most protect their phone, so I've always wondered about the need for a range of colors...

Anectdotal evidence at best, but I’d say 80% of the iphones I see on a daily basis do not have a case.

That said, I know someone who bought the red iPhone as soon as it was available only to put it in a red case, which showed none of the actual phone color. Maybe it’s like cleaning on top of the refrigerator — you never see it, but you know it’s there?

nunzy said:

This sounds like something Android would do. Apple has too much class.

Sure they do ...



... but I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. 

It seems like an enormous amount of SKUs to keep track of, and stocked, given the storage options as well, but not insurmountable, especially not for Apple.

dewme said:

This is a lesson learned for me. The original article headline read:

Simple hack bypasses iOS passcode entry limit, opens door to brute force hacks

If the above article proves to be wrong then all of the sites that presented the original story as fact and without “claims” or some other similar caveat terminology have done a great disservice to their readership and Apple. 

This is very unsettling to me and gives me pause about taking explosive headlines at face value. I originally felt that Apple had failed in their DfS approach but now I am more inclined to believe that the person making the assertion of such a serious security vulnerability without concrete proof is guilty of serious negligence and poor methodology and demonstrates a severe lack of credibility. 

Who do we believe? 

Yes, AI evidently fell into the worst trap imaginable for a new service. I re-read the article, and never once does AI use the words: allegedly, may, might, could, appears, etc. To state the story as fact, and the claims as incontrovertible, without anything more than the guys word, and video demonstration. A simple “weasel” word would have saved them. That’s the definition of fake news. Mistakes do happen in reporting,  but a news site should be limited to typos, or sources who conspire to manipulate them. A story like this should not rely on a sole claim as fact, without qualifying it, thus validating the source claim without review. MacRumors made the same mistake, so AI is in the same company.

gatorguy said:

2old4fun said:

volcan said:

maciekskontakt said:

volcan said:

I travel a lot so carrying a wireless charger is too bulky and would be very inconvenient on the plane.

It is not about charging only. But agreed that wireless charger can be bulky

Plus you can't charge and hold to use at the same time. Just a bad idea for my use case. 

I use wireless charging and AirPods with out a problem. 

Your AirPods sound as good as wired headphones? I've not heard ANY bluetooth audio devices that sound better than their wired counterparts. Until that's solved I'd consider a portless smartphone a non-starter. 

I guarantee this isn’t an issue for the vast majority of Apple’s iPhone customers. Now lag is a real issue for some, but I doubt most are using an iPhone for critical listening through headphones. It’s the delay issue which is going to create problems with using the iPhone as a recording device, or even a gaming device, or anything requiring audio sync. And it’s for this reason that Apple will most likely offer some kind of physical connection, like a SmartConnector.

irnchriz said:

applemagic said:

Soli said:

Use the full keyboard for your passcode! Even add a simple long press character to make it crazy hard to crack without invoking much of a hassle for you.

@Soli, I have seen you mention this a few times in these forums. Could you please explain this a little more? I have a 6-digit password (numeric, though, which I guess I need to change), so I would like to try your suggestion. But, I am not sure I understand what 'use the full keyboard' and 'add a simple long press character' mean. I use an iPhone 6, running iOS 10.x.

It is simple math, the more entropy the longer it takes to crack a password.
A password like
banana,horse,spangle-1723!
will take centuries to crack vs a password like
996643
or even
Bl0t50ms 

Exactly. I work for a company with over 260,000 employees worldwide. We recently had company wide training about precicesly this. It was recommended that we all adopt simple pass-phrases over the silly habit of 6-12 alphanumeric nonsense characters, for which method even the inventor apologized about being wrong. Easy for us to remember and harder for a brute force attack.

Unfortunately, most password systems are geared toward this now debunked method, limiting passwords to a specific length, rejecting common words, and requiring one of every kind of character, but in some cases limiting the special characters available. And it was for this reason the top recommendation was that we use a password manager for all of our passwords, along with two-factor authentication. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really work for an iPhone.