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  • Decade-old Apple Car project may be completely dead

    I never understood the motivation behind such a huge undertaking as building a passenger vehicle.  Even though Apple has more wealth than Elon Musk, and could more easily finance the development of such a vehicle, the target market is just too small to make it viable.  Ten years ago there were very few EVs on the market, the technology was developing in leaps and bounds, and the early products were quickly outdated.

    Now, the EV market is currently at a stage where most of the early adopters have owned an EV or two, and some have owned succeeding generations of EVs.  And there are many more players in the EV industry, with China pushing to dominate the market, at least outside the USA.

    But the EV market is suffering from huge value depreciation, and flattening or declining sales.  It is definitely not the time for a novice automotive startup company like Apple to bring a $100k+ EV to a stagnant market, especially since the technology development cycle means they need to freeze a design in order to produce it.  The biggest changes coming in the next few years relate to battery composition and capacity, so coming out with an expensive vehicle using “old” lithium ion battery technology, just prior to new designed vehicles with solid state batteries (or something else more advanced) would really kill most sales potential for an Apple Car.

    And don’t ignore all of the safety standards, environmental standards, sales, service, support, etc., associated with any passenger vehicle.  They would be starting from ground zero here as well.
    tmaywatto_cobra
  • New wave of iPads expected in late March hardware releases

    I really can’t justify an iPad Air or Pro based on my uses for a tablet, and I desperately need to replace my iPad Gen 5.  But the Gen 9 and Gen 10 iPads are just deficient in enough areas to not be desirable to me.  Apple seems to limit some features on these basic iPads (no USB-C, or compatible with Apple Pencil 1, keyboard limitations, display resolution, etc.) that I am really hoping that the Gen 11 iPad will have all of the essentials that I seek in order to replace my Gen 5 iPad and last me for another 5-6 years.
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  • Apple releases AirPods firmware 4.2 update for all models

    Does this include the very first generation of AirPods? They seem to have been forgotten for any updates, for quite a long time now. 
    williamlondon
  • San Francisco doctor charged with possessing child pornography in iCloud

    chadbag said:
    AI said: “ The system does not scan actual images on a user's iCloud account”

    pray tell, how do they get a hash for the image without scanning (reading) it?

    This article explains what a hash is, in a relatively non-technical way. 
     
    https://newtech.law/en/the-hash-a-computer-files-digital-fingerprint/

    So, the sequence of ‘ones and zeros’ that make up any file, but in this case, image files, are run through a standard hashing algorithm that produces a unique code, or fingerprint, for that file. Change one bit in the file, and the fingerprint will change. 

    So, the organizations that monitor child pornography images have a growing collection of hashes, or fingerprints, for these images.  So, when files are uploaded to iCloud, Apple can generate hashes for files, and then compare the hashes to the known list of child porn images, to look for matches. 

    Hope this helps. 
    fastasleepjony0
  • Apple adds Windows Precision Touchpad to Boot Camp, eight years late

    Without left and right buttons I find trackpads to be a pain in the butt.
    It doesn’t take long to adapt to a one finger tap as a left click, and a two finger tap as a right click. 
    darkvaderelijahgwatto_cobra