rundhvid

auxio said:

rundhvid said:

auxio said:

KBuffett said:

fallenjt said:

Way overdue. Should’ve done this long ago to capture Android market which was huge. Now, Apple should seamlessly integrate FaceTime on Android as it does in iOS.

I agree. To little, too late. WhatsApp have killed the social market, and Zoom and Teams have got the corporate market. With all the resources at Apple’s disposable, they do a lousy job with some things.

You do realize that Apple's business model is based around selling the hardware they manufacture right?  They're not some social media startup trying to rope as many people into using a free communication platform as they can while making money by harvesting information about all their activities on that platform.  They've built their reputation around privacy and so the only way they could make it worthwhile from a business perspective would be to make it a subscription service, which the vast majority of Android users would never pay for, no matter how good Apple made it.

What they've done now is essentially for the benefit of the people who own Apple hardware.  They've made it so that, if you own an iPhone and want to video conference with someone on Android, but avoid using WhatsApp and other platforms which aren't as good as Apple's when it comes to privacy, it's now possible with FaceTime.

Also: Apple’s take on cross-platform communication might actually be reliable 🤭😳

Only as reliable as the platform itself 🙊

But seriously, Apple has never really been good at cross-platform development (iTunes and Quicktime on Windows aren't exactly great apps).  The reason why their software works so well on their own platforms is because they create everything from bottom to top, and so they have the in-house expertise to really get to the bottom of things.  For example, there's nothing like having the person who actually designed the audio/video hardware explaining how to get the lowest possible latency from it.  I don't think they could possibly get FaceTime to work as well on other platforms.

MacPro said:

rundhvid said:

Universal Control

—I hope  remembered to make this bidirectional >>> iPad & Magic Keyboard controlling the Mac 🤭

And why not extend that to operating a headless Mac mini using your iPad & Magic Keyboard with iPad as the only monitor?

That wasn't shown now I think about it.

Marvin said:

AppleInsider said:

In 2016, an unnamed student in Oregon sent her iPhone to Apple, as part of the repairs process. The device was then handed over to a Pegatron facility in Sacramento, California, where it was examined by technicians. 

Two of the technicians then posted "10 photos of her in various stages of undress and a sex video" to the woman's Facebook account, to make it seem like she posted the images herself, according to The Telegraph. The explicit content was later removed once friends of the victim told her of their publication. 

According to some reports, "often, Apple service centre executives ask users to provide them a device’s pass code, which may be required at certain stages during repair". This seems really open to abuse if true and I don't see why it would be necessary for a hardware repair.

Assuming it's the case that hardware repairs at some point need the device unlocked, the software needs better protections. Banking apps usually allow the app to be locked on leaving the app. The photos app doesn't necessarily need to have this by default but it could have a more visible way of securing photos and videos behind biometrics and/or pin code. iOS can even use on-device AI to detect nudity or just NSFW content and have a popup that recommends protecting it behind some security.

For repairs, the workers should only be allowed to boot the device into a safe mode that isn't allowed to access user's apps. Maybe something in iCloud could generate a second unlock code. On setting up an account on iOS, both would be generated. Then when a device failed, the user would get the repair code from iCloud to give to the repair people.

auxio said:

KBuffett said:

fallenjt said:

Way overdue. Should’ve done this long ago to capture Android market which was huge. Now, Apple should seamlessly integrate FaceTime on Android as it does in iOS.

I agree. To little, too late. WhatsApp have killed the social market, and Zoom and Teams have got the corporate market. With all the resources at Apple’s disposable, they do a lousy job with some things.

You do realize that Apple's business model is based around selling the hardware they manufacture right?  They're not some social media startup trying to rope as many people into using a free communication platform as they can while making money by harvesting information about all their activities on that platform.  They've built their reputation around privacy and so the only way they could make it worthwhile from a business perspective would be to make it a subscription service, which the vast majority of Android users would never pay for, no matter how good Apple made it.

What they've done now is essentially for the benefit of the people who own Apple hardware.  They've made it so that, if you own an iPhone and want to video conference with someone on Android, but avoid using WhatsApp and other platforms which aren't as good as Apple's when it comes to privacy, it's now possible with FaceTime.

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