bobolicious

...I am reminded of the phrase 'we are not evil'... Has it come to the point where customers are now reliant on external pressure to force Apple to make computers 'for the rest of us'...?

www.cnbc.com/2021/11/14/apple-sticking-taxpayers-with-part-of-the-bill-for-digital-id-rollout.html
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-apple-has-opened-backdoor-increased-surveillance

...I ask if Apple is in fact only 'protecting' customers from the competition while collecting vast amounts of the most personal verifiable data (watch, homekit?) from customers via all roads leading to iCloud... CSAM seemed to wake some up at just how vulnerable Apple users may be due to 'trusting' Apple. As Zuboff asks in her Surveillance Capitalism book, is it the tracking or the derivative data that is auction-able, and how effective is anonymizing as a veil...?

www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zuboff-surveillance-capitalism-assault-human-automomy-digital-privacy

Why does Photos tagging have no off switch? Why was the iMac mic internalized? Why must an Apple Watch sync via iCloud servers when it is adjacent to a mac? ...and on it goes...  Is this desperation and suggest Peak Apple ...?

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I've replaced batteries in a couple of iPhones including one with adhesive pull tabs that both broke. The latter I found by design a much tougher and arguably riskier process given the phyical stress required to remove the battery. www.robsonforensic.com/articles/lithium-battery-fire-expert-witness

"none of them launched complete, all of them lacked certain promised features"

Should this raise the question of merit vs calendar based 'upgrades'...?

Before 2011 (again) macOS upgrades seemed more merit based, and sometimes spanned more than two years,
also adding to and legacy support continuity...