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  • Another $1 million scam app surfaces amid App Store legal battles

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    launfall said:
    Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!
    Just the opposite. The ability of scam apps will reinforce the Walled Garden approach and the importance of Apple putting more resources into Walling-up the App Store -- which costs money.

    It even suggests that Apple shouldn't be giving away the App Store for free to developers. It makes no sense for developers to be in business if they don't make any money from their efforts -- that's not a business. If you're not making money by selling to your customer, and you're in business, you must be making money some other way -- selling the customer, scamming the customer? 
    watto_cobra

  • Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in Oracle Java fight

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    The SCOTUS decision in Oracle v Google is the right decision, for the right reason. 

    Those commenters claiming Google stole Java code from Oracle didn't read the decision, or for some reason, doesn't comprehend the decision. 

    Google did not copy any code. As the Court notes, Google copied the API only, not the implementation.

    Put another way, Google only copied (a subset of) the function (method) signatures of certain java objects -- maybe a little more since normally the return type of a function is not considered part of a function's signature. 

    Claiming otherwise would be like trying to forbid use of the functions names sin(x), cos(x), tan(x) -- if computers and copyright had been around at the time. 


    gatorguymuthuk_vanalingamEquals42

  • Apple to use 85 Tesla 'Megapack' batteries in California energy project

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    rcfa said:
    Disgusting greenwashing effort! Environmentally sound and sustainable energy production is more than just measuring CO2 output.

    These batteries are responsible for the destruction of a unique and sensitive ecosystem, destroying the livelihoods of indigenous people, and are hugely resource intensive for the energy they provide.

    Solar panels by themselves have a single digit EROI, by the time batteries and charging/discharging losses are factored in, it looks even worse.

    If Apple weren’t concerned with catering to the brainwashed “woke”, but would run the actual numbers, they would pursue nuclear power like Gates, and listen to people like Shellenberger…

    https://youtu.be/ciStnd9Y2ak
    All measures of "green" need to measure "cradle to grave". Anything less is dishonest. People who are "woke" know this. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple rejecting apps that collect data for 'device fingerprinting'

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    dewme said:
    This kind of thing is going to be a constant struggle because there are always services on computers that rely on the absolute uniqueness of the machine to ensure things that are targeted to the machine, and you, get properly routed to you. Things like cookies are essentially breadcrumb trails left by apps to allow them to record details about your access to websites on your machine. Eliminating them is easy, but it really just moves part of the tracking burden from your machine to the server side. As long as an app’s or website’s interaction with your machine has access to machine specific data they’ll be able to track you by storing information about each interaction on their servers. To fix this concern there needs to be something in the middle that allows you to maintain the machine uniqueness needed for routing while not allowing the tracking server to see who your machine really is at the machine unique level.
    There is a middle ground. It's called "logging in". If you log in, being voluntary, the server then know you and can maintain the information about you. Then, its up to them and you what information about you you are willing to share. 

    If you don't log in, they shouldn't know anything about you. Certainly technically, the site needs to know about your device, but that can be abstracted also. 
    StrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • Arm's new chip architecture will power future devices, possibly including Apple's

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    rob53 said:
    Is Apple required to push their Apple developed ARM designs back to the main ARM design architecture? It appears v9 will include many of the ideas Apple has developed. 

    As for Nvidia buying Arm Ltd there better be a whole lot more investigation into how Nvidia will be allowed to control the architecture and its users before they’re allowed to buy them. 
    Since the article mentions devices coming at the end of 2021 will being using the new architecture, might it be safe to assume Apple has already incorporated those elements into their SoC, releasing their versions at year's end? 

    I can't image Apple and ARM not having continual conversations. This new version is not going to be a surprise to Apple engineers and their suppliers. 
    gregoriusmseanjwatto_cobra