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What a big discovery !

"We identified that devices running Windows 10, iOS or macOS regularly transmit advertising events containing custom data structures which are used to enable certain platform-specific interaction with other devices within BLE range," the paper reads.

Those custom data structures will be modified or removed in the next system update then the “research” will become irrelevant.

What is the range of Bluetooth LE? 9 meters or so? The victim’s location must be bugged to collect that continuous traffic logs. And the collecting van must park to the victim’s location as closely as possible during that loooong collection task...

urahara said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

And ... why hasn't Apple pulled the app? They pull apps for all kinds of silly reasons. Downloading all your photos without permission should be enough to get them off the App Store until they do their 'splaning.

And what reason that would be in this case?

“Apps cannot claim rights on user created content.” Isn’t that enough?

tht said:

dysamoria said:

tht said:

macplusplus said:

AppleInsider said:

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Day 5

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As I started to restore my Mac and get it back up to snuff, I reflected on what was working and not working with the iPad. Editing video was surprisingly doable and I actually quite enjoyed using LumaFusion and will use that again.

At the same time, I felt while things weren't difficult and doable, they took a bit more time than they did on my Mac. Little things like the space inserted in pasting text. I did try using a mouse with the iPad and iOS 13 but it still wasn't as smooth as experience as I had hoped.

I also felt like I kept having to jump in and out of apps more than simply being in them all at once like on my Mac.

Still, using my iPad Pro as a daily driver was refreshing. It was a different way of looking at things and the platform shows a lot of promise. For full video editing, I'm not 100-percent ready to give up my Mac but with the latest hardware and iOS 13, Apple is getting remarkably close to getting there. Perhaps next year will finally bridge the gap.

Why didn’t you use the Pencil to quickly select and remove  those extra spaces? Since this is professional work a Pencil is justified. Besides, you can also replace all those “ )” in Pages, then paste the whole text again in your editor.

You don’t have to jump in and out of apps, just use the four-finger swipe to navigate between open iPad apps. On the Mac you are still in and out of apps since you must activate a window by clicking. Or you assign open applications to different desktops to swipe between them. As such, both macOS and iOS are similar in switching open apps.

You can also offload some of your video work to your iPad Pro since that beast doesn’t have temperature issues like computers with fans. Running your MBP mostly in max temperature will shorten its life, like any laptop.

These are many of the reasons I say that the best way to use an iPad is flat on table, when at a table, or flat on your lap. By configuring an iPad like a laptop, it makes it harder to use the biggest advantages of using a tablet: multi-touch gestures and Pencil input. The software keyboard takes practice to be proficient at, and Apple needs to improve it too by at least adding meta and arrow keys, but I think people can enter text with the software keyboard well, while being able to manipulate the iPad with multi-touch and Pencil really well who’ll flat.

When propped vertical while using a hardware keyboard, multi-touch and Pencil input is going to be cumbersome. If I was using a hardware keyboard, I’d just lay the iPad flat just behind the keyboard.

Flat on a table eliminates the Smart Keyboard and is awkward to use. Frankly, the iPad OS is still extremely poor with keyboard support.

Obviously we disagree.

If you have the iPad propped up, vertically, as you would with a keyboard cover, it makes using the iPad’s Touch based text manipulation, cursor control, app controls, drag and dropping harder to do. For some stuff, you are using two hands, and that’s even harder to do with an iPad propped vertically.

The tradeoff with using a hardware keyboard has some big compromises. This is why there is such demand for mouse support as using touch while propped up is hard. If you are using it flat on a table, the need for a mouse goes away.

Apple should be supporting all modes of input and enabling as much functionality as possible, so they should have good keyboard and pointer support, just as they should have great multi-touch UI designs. They should never have it such that it is not possible to do things with touch alone.

The Pencil eliminates the need for both arrow keys and the pointer, and integrates seamlessly without disturbing the multitouch interface. Apple Marketing’s narration is wrong, the external keyboard is NOT an iPad Essential. If you say that an external keyboard is essential to iPad you kill the iPad !... Only the Pencil can be an iPad essential (if such a thing is needed) since the multitouch interface may not be well suited to precision data selection in every case.

A government may always impose NEW taxes, there is nothing unusual with that, governments exist for a reason. Relating that to Apple’s supposedly “evasive tax maneuvers” is idiotic. The Irish investigation was not an investigation on Apple at first place, it was an investigation on the Irish State for providing “illegal state aid” because of tax incentives it provides. And that was appealed by both Apple and Irish government, putting Apple’s required payment into an escrow account until the appeal concludes. Apple has never faced a direct tax evasion charge from the EU, as far as we know. France may have decided to tax some US companies. The outcome of that will be US taking some counter measures, taxing similar French or EU companies for example. This is an issue that should be discussed under US-France/EU relations. Shifting that towards Apple’s supposedly evasive tax maneuvers is nothing more than a hate campaign.

AppleInsider said:

Every computer with an Intel processor will have an equilibrium temperature dependent on a number of factors -- the process size, the cooling system, and the ambient temperature. In our case, with the office air at about 21C, we got exactly what we expected to find.

No need to mention that unlike desktop computers in which the fans blow through all internal space, the fan(s) in a laptop only cool down the CPU and the GPU. The rest of the laptop enclosure must cool down itself. And if the ambient temperature is a parameter in establishing the thermal equilibrium of a computer with Intel, it becomes evident that the heat conductivity and the volume of the enclosure matter as much as the performance of the fans and the heat sink of a laptop. Thus aluminium and thin enclosure...