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  • 2022 'iPhone 14' revealed by leakers days before 'iPhone 13' announcement

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    siretman said:
    Is this post supposed to tamp down demand for the iPhone 13? Where art thou Samsung?

    Will not work. I am on the Upgrade program and will be getting every new iPhone. 
    No that isn't why he posts any leaks. He is openly an Apple and iPhone user, and even starts the video out by calling the iPhone 4 not only the greatest design of iPhone, but the greatest phone design ever in his opinion. 
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  • Google pokes fun at Apple's Jony Ive design videos in new headphone jack ad

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    rcfa said:
    How can people say “get over the headphone jack debate, it’s old tech” when Apple can’t even manage to get lossless audio to it’s highest end flagship headphones?

    The highest end headphones plug into the highest end DAC/headphone amps by, *drumroll* a headphone jack.

    So at least until the point when Apple manages to deliver lossless audio to its own headphones, this debate is fully justified, because as of now, you need an airplay2 target that supports lossless audio, and a DAC/headphone amp, and third party headphones, if you want to fully enjoy your music on headphones: a rather roundabout way, as compared to having a headphone jack in the device.
    (Yeah, well, maybe a USB DAC plus camera adapter might work, too… not any more elegant, though)
    Give me a break..

    Apple tells The Verge that when you play a 24-bit / 48 kHz Apple Music lossless track from an iPhone into the AirPods Max using both the cable and Lightning dongle, the audio is converted to analog and then re-digitized to 24-bit / 48 kHz. That re-digitization step is the reason that Apple can’t say you’re hearing pure lossless audio; it’s not an identical match to the source


    Your ears can tell the difference between a lossless signal that is analog and re-digitized at the same 24-bit/48 kHz sample rate? I highly doubt it? If you are doing any type critical listening and use an external DAC you have already given up on elegant as you put it. This type of set up is for stationary critical listening, not walking around town or around the house. So add the camera adapter and enjoy through your audiophile cans. Airpods max are expensive for the sound they reproduce and the tech inside. Comparing them to audiophile level wired headphones at the same price point really makes no sense. That isn't the game Apple is trying to play with the Airpods Max.


    watto_cobra

  • Apple testing new Face ID that works with masks, says leaker

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    bloggerblog said:
    If the camera can see through a mask it can also look through clothes, that might be one concern
    Look through what? It's not an X-ray machine...  It says the new cameras will create a composite render, not see through masks and clothes.
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  • Tim Cook visiting White House on Wednesday to discuss cyber attacks

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    Apple's new warrantless searches are a cyberattack. It is just being carried out by Apple instead of some faceless criminal organization.
    From what I understand if you don't use icloud to back up your photos the warrantless searches as you put it can't be completed. Maybe I am wrong and someone else knows better than I do? There is a quote from Craig Federighi stating that there are two parts of the algorithm for scanning half is done on device and the other half is completed in the cloud.

    Federighi said “the cloud does the other half of the algorithm,” so while photos are scanned on the device it requires iCloud to fully work. Federighi emphatically stated that the system is “literally part of the pipeline for storing images in iCloud.”


    Whether this is 100% true is debatable, but with a company as scrutinized as Apple if it isn't true it will be found out and there will be lawsuits. Not sure outright lying about this functionality is a very wise move, but I guess we will see. Apple has been scanning email for CSAM ( ingoing and outgoing ) since 2019.There have been no reports of false hits or anything out of the ordinary that I have heard or read about? Have you or anyone else here? If so please share..

    "Apple confirmed to me that it has been scanning outgoing and incoming iCloud Mail for CSAM attachments since 2019. Email is not encrypted, so scanning attachments as mail passes through Apple servers would be a trivial task. Apple also indicated that it was doing some limited scanning of other data, but would not tell me what that was, except to suggest that it was on a tiny scale. It did tell me that the “other data” does not include iCloud backups".


    Here is a link to the archived child safety page from Apple.


    Also let's be honest if you possess or are sharing this type of disgusting content and are stupid enough to trust any cloud storage not just that offered by Apple you should be caught. That also goes for any photos we deem "private" or may be "explicit" get the shit out of the cloud! Period..

    This is like people that are soo afraid of getting the covid vaccine because of a chip that is implanted to track them. Yet they carry a cellphone everywhere and talk about the conspiracy on Face Book using the same phone?

    I don't like that Apple is doing this don't get me wrong, but if it used in the an appropriate way to help with cracking down on explicit underage images being passed from one sicko to another it sits a bit better with me.








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  • Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard line stance on remote work

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    Good gosh what a bunch of whiners. I drive a transit bus for a living. Did I get to take time off? No. Did I.threaten to quit? Of course not. Why would I. I still have a family to support. If you can’t hand the fire get out of the kitchen. Go ahead and quit! Apple will have you replaced before you can clear your desk out. 
    Didn't all of these folks work from home this whole time? Isn't the fight to continue working from home and not go to a hybrid schedule? They aren't fighting and threatening to quit because they are being forced back to work, they are being forced to go back to working in the office and they don't want to.

    I personally have worked throughout this pandemic having left the office for good March 23rd of last year. I do not want to go back into the office full time in the least. I would seriously consider looking elsewhere if I was forced to go back full time at this point. I also have bills to pay and people to support so not having a job isn't an option, but looking for a new job is always an option. That is what these folks here at Apple are really saying. Please give us more flexibility after we have proven the work can be done remotely or we will look for something else, or continue to fight. How can you fault that? 





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