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  • Lower 15% Google Play fee offered for Wear OS, Android Auto integrations

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    gatorguy said:
    Beats said:
    IreneW said:
    Beats said:
    Android Auto and WearOS? What’s 15% of zero?
    I can understand your sentiment on WearOS, but Android Auto actually works very well (and is supported by all major players as far as I have seen).

    Supported. How many are used
    How many iPhone owners use CarPlay? My guess is as many use Android Auto. You have any stats that indicate otherwise?

    The last I could find is from four years ago and there was actually a higher percentage of Android users interested in Android Auto, and a much higher number of them considered it a "must-have", than there were iOS owners interested in CarPlay. Do you have something more recent to offer? Everything I find is relatively old.

    Not sure if user numbers is even a relevant metric anyway;

    https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/available-models/

    https://www.android.com/auto/compatibility/

    There are more links available for Android Auto, but one is probably representative enough.

    If you can find that your vehicle is supported, whatever your choice, then you're golden.
    williamlondongatorguymuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • New iPad Pro models with larger screens are under development

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    polymnia said:
    Please, bigger tablets! At 15-16” there will be few reasons for artists to select a MacBook Pro now that the software is beginning with to catch up. I’m in that camp. I’d love an iPad with the screen size of an MBP with the pencil and all that unlocks creatively. 
    A 16:9, 16 inch iPad Pro to match a future 16 MBP would be very well received in the creative community, and given the rumored timeframe, perhaps Apple will employ micro LED technology into both screens. 
    jahbladedrdavidSanctum1972byronl

  • Apple's Chinese wind power partner linked to Uyghur forced labor programs

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    tmay said:
    crowley said:
    Holy smokes George, I can can get that you may have been lead astray or convinced by the news you read, but even in your own warped world if you want to convince us then you're going to have to try.  Tell us something, ANYTHING other than diatribe.

    If you can't do that then you're just another loud mouth on the internet.  A moron.  Please prove me wrong, show me that you have something to back up your words.  An actual fact.  An actual news source.  Just one.
    George can tell the elephant story. 
    George would certainly fail at retelling elephant story.
    Can you tell him? How many elephants?

    It's a cute, even an interesting story.   But I find this one far more interesting:   The U.S. banned China from its so called "International Space Station" (so much for "international"!).  That forced China into building its own -- which is coming on line just as the American station is at the end of its life.   China is expected to open their station to international visits and research.   I wonder if they will let the U.S. in?   Would you?

    China space station: Shenzhou-12 delivers first crew to Tianhe module


    Rocket carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three astronauts takes off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

    Astronauts


    Again, no link to why the U.S. banned China's participation in the ISS;

    https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/16798/china-banned-international-space-station

    "The International Space Station is just that – a place where international space agencies can work together in an effort to accomplish common goals: better understanding outer space and how it impacts various processes, sciences, and the likes.

    More than a dozen different countries have visited the International Space Station since the first components reached outer space, including Russia, which boasts one of the most capable space agencies besides the United States. China, on the other hand, isn’t one of them. Despite its interests in collaborating on the International Space Station, China was officially barred from visiting by the United States in 2011.

    Initially, China’s five-year-old space agency was viewed as too young and inexperienced to offer any useful contributions to the International Space Station. Soon after the Chinese developed their own space stations and sent astronauts to space to visit them, it became clear that this wasn’t the case.

    Later, trust issues would become the source of the United States’ unwillingness to work with China on the International Space Station. Two matters of distrust, including the use of an anti-satellite weapon and the hacking of Jet Propulsion Laboratory intellectual property, purportedly fueled a bill passed in 2011 to ban China from the International Space Station.

    Even today, China isn’t allowed to visit the International Space Station, but other space agencies apart form NASA have expressed how they wouldn’t mind having China onboard. After all, it’s international collaboration that conceived the International Space Station in the first place, and with more brilliant minds in outer space, humanity could spring forward into the next era of technological advancements in space."


    The anti-satellite test;

    https://swfound.org/media/9550/chinese_asat_fact_sheet_updated_2012.pdf

    "The Space Debris Created by the Test

    The KKV collided with the FY-1C at a relative velocity of over 32,400 km/hr. Although there were no explosives on board the KKV, the force of the impact completely destroyed the satellite. In hypervelocity impacts such as this ASAT test, normally solid objects behave like liquids. Thus, the FY-1C and KKV effectively passed through each other, and the resulting cloud of debris fragments from each object continued largely in the same direction and velocity as before.

    Within minutes after the collision, the debris cloud started to spread around the satellite’s original orbit. Ten days after the ASAT test, the debris had spread throughout the entire orbit, resulting in a “ring” of debris around the Earth. Three years after the test, the debris has spread out even more, effectively covering much of LEO.

    As of mid-September, 2010, the U.S. military’s Space Surveillance Network (SSN) has tracked a total of 3,037 pieces of debris from this event, 97% of which have remained in orbit.6 Scientists estimate more than 32,000 smaller pieces from the event are currently untracked. The debris from the destruction of the FY-1C currently spreads from altitude as low as 175 km and as high as 3,600 km.6 

    This is the largest debris cloud ever generated by a single event in orbit.

    The Impact of the Test Debris on Operational Satellites

    According to Celestrak, on January 22, 2007, there were 2,864 active or inactive satellites in Earth orbit with known positional data.7 Of these, 1,899 pass through the regime now affected by the debris from the Chinese ASAT test—fully two-thirds of all payloads in Earth orbit.7 The first acknowledged maneuver to avoid a piece of debris from the Chinese ASAT test occurred on June 22, 2007, when flight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center briefly fired the thrusters on their TERRA satellite to avoid a seven percent chance of being struck the following day.8

    On October 10, 2007, a detailed analysis of the FY-1C debris being tracked predicted that just over six percent of the debris (136 pieces) will have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere by 2017 and 79 percent will still remain in orbit until about the year 2108.7

    Fuck China for that.


    So you can now return to your regularly scheduled kissing of Xi's ass.

    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple's Chinese wind power partner linked to Uyghur forced labor programs

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    tmay said:
    crowley said:
    The possibility of this virus having an origin outside of China is an infinitely small number, and the epidemiological data does not support any origin outside of China. The fact that China spent such a high level of effort in Wuhan and the Huawei province to mitigate the spread of the virus, while the rest of the world was basically unaware of it, is telling.

    It absolutely did not originate in the U.S.
    ...

    Really?  You sure about that?
    Then how did it show up here at the same time that it showed up in China?

    The fact that China identified it and alerted the world to it while it took us a year to identify those earliest cases (using stored blood samples from research studies) doesn't change anything.  As in so many things, they were just better at it than us.

    No, that doesn't mean that it originated here just as it doesn't mean it originated in China.  it could have originated anywhere and traveled to both places - it is a very global world.   The fact that China was the only one to identify it and alert the world does not, in itself, mean that it originated there.

    The U.S. may be right that we need a Phase 2 to better identify where it came from -- but perhaps that phase 2 study should start in the U.S.
    https://www.who.int/news/item/27-04-2020-who-timeline---covid-19

    31 Dec 2019

    Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.

    1 January 2020

    WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak.

    4  January 2020

    WHO reported on social media that there was a cluster of pneumonia cases – with no deaths – in Wuhan, Hubei province. 

    5 January 2020

    WHO published our first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus. This is a flagship technical publication to the scientific and public health community as well as global media. It contained a risk assessment and advice, and reported on what China had told the organization about the status of patients and the public health response on the cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

    10 January 2020

    WHO issued a comprehensive package of technical guidance online with advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potential cases, based on what was known about the virus at the time. This guidance was shared with WHO's regional emergency directors to share with WHO representatives in countries. 

    Based on experience with SARS and MERS and known modes of transmission of respiratory viruses, infection and prevention control guidance were published to protect health workers recommending droplet and contact precautions when caring for patients, and airborne precautions for aerosol generating procedures conducted by health workers. 

    12 January 2020

    China publicly shared the genetic sequence of COVID-19. 

    13 January 2020

    Officials confirm a case of COVID-19 in Thailand, the first recorded case outside of China.  

    14 January 2020

    WHO's technical lead for the response noted in a press briefing there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus (in the 41 confirmed cases), mainly through family members, and that there was a risk of a possible wider outbreak. The lead also said that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given our experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens. 


    First case in U.S., as originally reported by the New England Journal of Medicine on Jan 31, 2020

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191

    "On January 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever. On checking into the clinic, the patient put on a mask in the waiting room. After waiting approximately 20 minutes, he was taken into an examination room and underwent evaluation by a provider. He disclosed that he had returned to Washington State on January 15 after traveling to visit family in Wuhan, China. The patient stated that he had seen a health alert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the novel coronavirus outbreak in China and, because of his symptoms and recent travel, decided to see a health care provider."
    He traveled to the U.S. from Wuhan on Jan 15. 
       
    What exactly are you unable to understand about timelines?
    gatorguy

  • Apple's Chinese wind power partner linked to Uyghur forced labor programs

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    tmay said:
    Here we go again....

    " A report claimed...."
    ".... has been accused ...."
    "blah, blah, blah..."
    ... Where "claims" and "accusations" constitute definitive proof.

    Soon we will see coming from China:
    "A report claimed {that Apple forces workers to work without pay]'
    "[Apple] has been accused [of stealing ip from Huawei]....."

    Isn't  it time to stop this bullshit?
    It's just standard propaganda crap:   You start with an unproven assumption or accusation and then just keep building on it till the fools assume it's reality.  

    Trump was a master at it:   "Many people are saying...."  and then letting FauxNews and the right wing propaganda machine repeat the lie till it became reality for the cult.
    Yeah, who are you going to believe, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, plus a plethora of other NGO sources, or the Chairman for Life successor of Mao...

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due/

    Go ahead and take your time to figure that out...
    I'll wait for actual evidence of serious wrongdoing instead of hate, propaganda and hearsay.

    Meanwhile I'll concern myself with important and verified injustices that happen daily right here in America as well as those actually attacking our democracy -- you know, the stuff you ignore because you're so busy hating on China.

    Biden is dong pretty well, considering he has only been in office for about 140 days.

    Xi, on the other hand, has been in power since March of 2013, so yeah, not doing so great. You seem a solid Xi supporter, so I'm guessing that you believe there are a lot of China Haters that you need to respond to.

    Me, there's a whole lot of people in the world that don't trust Xi or the PRC, and given the lack of transparency in China, I find that the evidence that has come to light, is the tip of the iceberg of what will ultimately be uncovered.

    You're on the wrong side of this, but that's where contrarians like you want to be.

    gatorguyelijahg