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  • Notes of interest from Apple's Q3 2016 conference call

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    cali said:
    gatorguy said:
    With the massive attention that Pokemon Go attracted I imagine that AR/VR is very high priority now if it wasn't a month ago. 
    And Apple should have bought Nintendo a year ago.


    I would suggest buying Niantic instead, as they published the game and made the profits. Nintendo has admitted that they make diddly-squat from Pokemon Go.
    palomine

  • Notes of interest from Apple's Q3 2016 conference call

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    cropr said:
    I don't understand that Tim Cook said he saw the highest level of iPhone switchers, while having 15% less iPhones sold in Q2  and losing almost everywhere market share. Did I miss something?
    Yeah you missed something.

    What if:
    1) Some Android users fed-up with lack of OS updates getting their first iPhone, the recently launched and affordable SE model.
    2) Fewer current iPhone users upgrading because we're long into the last product cycle with a new one on the horizon.
    3) Still far more Android users churning to their next Android phone to get newer OS.

    and presto! 
    nolamacguy

  • Rumor: New iPhones with secure iris scanners coming in 2018

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    cnocbui said:
    ericthehalfbee said:
    I don't see it. Fingerprint is super fast and convenient. What good is there to having two completely separate biometric devices on one iPhone? People will just use the one that works all the time under any conditions (fingerprint).
    Works with gloves, does it?
    Will the EyeD iris scan work through sunglasses? Perhaps there are slight inconveniences to all biometric systems, no?
    Rayz2016williamlondonsphericpscooter63igorskywaverboyclemynxnetmage

  • Occupy the App Store? Top 1% of monetized apps dominate 94% of US App Store revenue

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    Seems that most iOS device buyers are accustomed to paying only for the best of both H/W and S/W! I don't mind paying for good quality and ease of use.
    calibaconstang

  • FBI should disclose iPhone vulnerability to Apple, Edward Snowden says

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    This has been a FBI PR clusterf*ck from the beginning.

    First they claim they don't how the firm they hired penetrated the iPhone and the method is a proprietary asset of the company. Then they offer to shop it around to local Attorneys General wanting to hack iPhones in other criminal cases. If the first claim is true, what is the evidentiary value of this in court if the defence cannot examine the method for accuracy and reliability? If the FBI is as ignorant about how the hack works as they claim, why would they allow an undocumented forensic tool access to an irreplaceable piece of evidence in a high-profile terrorism case?

    Johnathan Zdziarski makes the case for the FBI's reckless behaviour better than I can here:

    http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6070
    steveh