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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 

    Microsoft didn't do this at all.  It was Crowdstrike that did it.
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  • Florida has temporarily suspended support for its digital driver's license app

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    macxpress said:

    Sure this sounds super convenient but I'm not sure why everyone is rushing to have all of their data and identity controlled by Big Tech. I actually find it scary that one company has all your health data, personal information, banking information, and basically knows everything about you. That they'll use for their own corporate gain. There may not have been a data breach to date but the day there is, it'll be the most disastrous. I prefer my data to stay with the places that hold them now. With all that said I support regulation of big tech and think they should stay out of every industry
    Apple doesn't know anything about you.  How many times do we have to go over this? 
    Whatever helps you sleep at night.  Apple knows quite a bit about you.  They just don't sell as much of it to others as do Google, Amazon, etc.
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  • England's poshest school Eton bans iPhones but provides iPads

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    Because "bans all smartphones" isn't as effective at raising the ire of Apple fans...
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  • Affinity makes Designer, Photo, and Publisher free for six months

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    edr said:
    I assume they've made most of the money there was to make from selling licenses. "Free for 6 months", get a bunch of new users comfortable with the software and switch everybody to subscriptions. But cheaper, not $60-100/month like those Adobe baddies, only $40/month!

    That was my first thought as well.
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  • Apple green lights Epic Games Store in rapid reversal

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    22july2013 said:
    CrossPlatformFrogger said:
    Though I'm not a Fortnite fan, this is definitely a win for consumers, it was always crazy to me that Apple can literally victimize their customer base 
    If Apple is forced (by people like you) to not produce and sell products that people like me want, then our freedom is lost. You are against Apple's freedom, and mine, to build and buy what we want. You get exactly what you want (Android) but you don't want us to get what we want. No freedom there. If Apple is forced to copy Android much more, I will abandon Apple.

    No one's freedom is comprised by adding the capability to download from alternate stores.  Talk about hyperbole.

    My only concern, and "concern" is probably an overly strong word to convey my feelings here, is that an alternate store will be less likely to do even the not wholly adequate vetting that Apple does, making it more likely that a malicious app makes it onto the phone.  Once that app is on an iPhone, it could conceivably make it easier to compromise other iPhones if, for instance, the app can "phone home" about vulnerabilities.  While I find that to be a plausible scenario, I'm not sure it's very likely.  At least I'd like it to be not likely.

    Even though Apple's app vetting process is pretty good, it's not perfect, and I would not expect others stories to be as good for some period of time while they learn all the things Apple has learned over the years.
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