theotherphil

Stymyx said:

Strange this is being reported now.  I installed the iOS 17 Public Beta 1 on my 14 Pro Max about 2 weeks ago, and with it, I installed the WatchOS 10 beta (21R5305e).  I've had the Snoopy watch face for 2 weeks now.

It's been there from the first dev beta because that's how long I've been using it.

Osbert said:

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Those that pretend not to understand are the ones that wish to do great harm to society.
Society is not easy and Governments should not be allowed to infringe upon any citizens or even a non-citizen's, right to privacy.

SO GLAD we left UK in 1648.

!!! NOBODY !!! SHOULD HAVE ALL THE KEYS TO ALL THE CASTLES !!!! - nobody.

Absolute power brings absolute corruption!

The quote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," is popularly understood as a declaration about the importance of civil liberties and as a warning against giving up freedom in exchange for security.

However, the historical context of the quote is a bit more nuanced. It comes from a 1755 letter that Franklin, then serving as a Pennsylvania assemblyman, wrote on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the colonial governor during a time of frontier war. The letter was a response to the governor's refusal to allow the Assembly to tax the lands of the Penn family, who ruled Pennsylvania from afar, for war expenses. Instead, the governor proposed that the Assembly give up its power to tax in exchange for funds to ensure frontier security. In this context, "essential liberty" refers to the Assembly's power to levy taxes, and "a little temporary safety" pertains to the financial aid for frontier defense.

Thus, Franklin's quote was a criticism of the governor's proposal and a defense of the Assembly's political power. Over time, the quote has been abstracted from its specific historical context and widely used in discussions about civil liberties, privacy, and security.

I highly suggest you read Edward Snowdon's book before casting criticism of other country's alleged lack of "freedom". 

GeorgeBMac said:

Unexpected things happen at unexpected times.  

That's why I replaced my original Apple Watch with a series 4 with LTE.   I feel much safer with it.  It's only off my wrist to charge while I have coffee & breakfast in the morning.  I do not feel safe without it.  Actually, that's one of the main reasons I would update to a Series 7 with LTE:  33% faster charging so it would spend less time charging and more time on my wrist.

The charging speed is by far the best thing about the S7 and the watch itself also seems more efficient. I too upgraded from the S4 and it was worth it for that alone. In my rough estimates, it now charges just above 1% per minute (from 50% upwards). It'll likely charge faster the lower the battery percentage is at the start.

As a developer, you can use whatever payment processor you like and keep all profits yourself all whilst targeting every iOS device right now….no legislation needed. Progressive Web Apps (PWA’s) are supported both on iOS and Android. This gives developers the option of not using Apple’s App Store and saving themselves 30% if they have their own payment processing, marketing, discovery, worldwide tax reporting, local payment methods and multiple currency support etc, etc.

https://www.simicart.com/blog/progressive-web-apps-examples/

My concern is that these 3rd party apps store your email credentials on their servers as well as acting as a relay for your messages/ attachments, which now becomes another giant honey pot of user data. This made things particularly difficult as my work email servers check the IP address location when logging in. Given that a couple of these 3rd party mail servers were located outside Australia, I couldn't get them to collect my work email. Getting outlook to work on my iPad and iPhone together was a nightmare....login on the iPhone, and I had to re-authenticate on the iPad and vice versa, despite trying every combination of app specific password (one for each device/ one for each app etc). Finally, mail was being delivered and sent much quicker via apple's own mail client on iOS, indicating that the third party clients were contacting their own servers which were acting as a relay. If the third party clients were accessing your mail server directly, it would receive mail at exactly the same time as iOS mail.

Check the ToS and privacy policy of these companies, it is eye opening.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2881632/eu-parliament-blocks-new-outlook-apps-over-privacy-concerns.html