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randominternetperson said:

I had to watch the video just to see if new user Hypraktiv has a point (which he doesn't; unnamed video guy sounds like the typical YouTube guy--or better).

Take the blue pill and stay in YouTube land; take the red pill and you're making fruit-financed PBS-like documentaries that run on the video wall of relevant retail stores, on the sides of buildings in Time Square, Vegas Strip and Tokyo and, of course, in-between features on a new 24 hour channel that eventually gets hyped in the Wall Street conference calls.

It's a natural selection. #gbm

mike1 said:

dick applebaum said:

mike1 said:

So, which iOS do the millions of new phones already produced include, iOS10.3 or an older beta of iOS11?

I thought I read somewhere that Apple has the tech to upgrade iPhone iOS in a sealed box.

I suspect that the new iPhones have an iOS11 release that is not a beta, but mirrors the latest beta available when the iPhone was manufactured.

So, when you unbox your new iPhone, it will be running iOS11 and prompt you to upgrade if the version has been supplanted by a later release.

I don't believe that the new iPhones will be able to run anything earlier than iOS11.

Thanks. That would be very interesting if they had a way to bulk-wirelessly upgrade phones that are powered off and in the box.

Cell phones can be remotely started/stopped with sufficient privileges because they're never really completely off (unless the battery is totally depleted). It makes one angry that Find TheBastardWhoStole My iPhone can't do this to start Lost Mode or send an Erase command, but anything that would cause the device to suddenly generate a lot of heat could have safety concerns (unless they were smart enough to code for that); I'm guessing it is probably only used for OEM file installation via BLE/NFC and the screen/cell-chips never power up.

Just say no... and keep that cell phone on speaker or a corded headset when in use. #gbm

StrangeDays said:

smaffei said:

Yes, let's make more apps from people who actually have no formal Comp Sci training. Yeah, those will be stable. 

Hate to break it to ya — but much of the original Mac team had absolutely no Comp Sci university schooling. many were self-taught. it didn’t matter — being smart and able to get things done is what matters.

Hate to break it to ya, but the original Mac software (now called "Classic macOS") was barely stable because of that fact, something Jobs came to be very keenly aware of as he developed NeXT, Mac OS X and iOS. Developing anything for that "stuff" required what came to be known as "organic knowledge" --lots of undocumented bugs making it virtually impossible for all but the most determined (and well financed) professional developers to embrace the platform. There was this one guy (Steve Jasik) who must have made a small fortune just selling "The Debugger" for it. We would have lost the Cold War if our country had depended on that "stuff" like it came to depend on NeXT and other Unix, IBM and DEC environments, but for producing low-profit apps for use by home computers and small businesses, it couldn't be beat.