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  • Apple's services event receives rocky reception from industry and critics

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    This is the second AppleInsider article this week to misspell Warren Buffett's last name. Please work on this, folks. :)
    anantksundaram

  • Apple's iOS 12 installed on 80 percent of compatible devices

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    jce10 said:
    Misleading headline
    Apple's iOS 12 installed on 80 percent of compatible devices
    That's not the same thing as
    show iOS 12 as installed on 83 percent of devices released during the last four years
    I have older but compatible devices that I don't bother with iOS updates anymore. I've been bitten by performance problems with old-device-on-latest-iOS too many times before.
    1) Yes, the author is well aware that those two facts are not the same thing, which is why the word "also" appears in the text, but you edited that word out for some odd reason. 2) You're wrong about this as well, since a major focus of iOS 12 was to improve performance on older devices, and testing showed conclusively that it succeeded. The iPhone 5S and 6 run substantially faster under iOS 12 than under iOS 11. All compatible devices should be running iOS 12.
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  • WPA3 will improve your Wi-Fi security, if your router supports it

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    I'm going to predict that this article is wrong, and that Apple will indeed provide a software update with WPA3 for at least the more recent Airport models, even though it does not have to.
    williamlondonAlex1N

  • What you need to know about Apple's and Qualcomm legal fight over cell phone modems

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    Qualcomm is just incentivizing Apple to invest even more resources in its efforts to produce its own baseband chips. Apple's record at making custom silicon so far is extremely good, if you look at the A-series processors and their cost/performance curve lately compared to Intel. Qualcomm is going to lose, here.
    icoco3ronn

  • Apple sacks iPhone X engineer after daughter posts hands-on video to YouTube

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    shapetables said:
    Most people support Apple's decision, but they don't stand a chance when this engineer realizes he has to take it to court (because he may not work again, at least at the same level). The reason is that double-edged sword that Apple uniquely wields in controlling the technology, not to mention that facility. A reasonable person might ask how much it would have really cost Apple to ensure that phones could not film without first obtaining a code number or other authorization and what precautions were taken to assist employees with authorized visitors in complying with the security policies. The answer to these questions probably mean this girl will have her education paid for while she stars in her own cable show.
    Nope! Nope nope nope nope nope. It's impossible to do proper testing if you build in all kinds of fake conditional stuff about "code numbers" and "authorization". If you do that, you are no longer testing the hardware and software properly in the conditions that actual users will see—and that of course makes the testing useless. You're wrong on every single point, here. This engineer fucked up really badly, and his daughter fucked up really badly. I don't take any pleasure in the punishment, but it is just.
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