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  • Apple employees fear MR headset could be an expensive flop

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    At 3 grand I think it’s gonna bring a lot of people into the Apple Store to check it out, but they’ll make more money on iPhones sold to people who decide to upgrade just because they’re there than they’re will from people buying the headset. 

    I think it feels weird for Apple to launch a device that so many people won’t be able to afford. (Even if people can’t afford a Mac Pro they can still typically afford some kind of Mac.)
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  • Steve Jobs saved a long-time Mac developer from an early death

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    I honestly did think this was going to be a story like about how Jobs hired an acupuncturist for Forestall. 

    Still though, I don’t think the title was clickbait and I’m not mad that there was another way to read it. (Honestly part of knowing any language is knowing that sometimes you need more context to avoid confusion.)

    Anyway, I’m glad Steve told the record industry to bugger off. There were tons of tolls that did the same sort of things, just worse on Windows. Also, the record industry are a bunch of thugs who rip off artists. 

    Though I do like Tim and it’s clear he is better at managing a large corporation that Steve could have hoped to be… I do miss a few of the different values that Steve had. The iLife apps were super important to him, and under Cook they’re all pretty well on life support. (Though part of that could be that Tim is hoping that by giving them generic names like Music and Photos that they feel to a legislator more like system apps that would be silly to force Apple to unbundle.)

    I think Tim’s thinking is that they want to put more focus on third party developers products which typically have to be sold, and then people will be less expectant of Apple to build great apps for every type of creative activity. (Also Apple sticking mostly to OS development probably cuts back on developer concerns about getting Sherlocked.)

    These days Apple really just makes their various hardware and software platforms, as well as the iWork apps, their associated online services and their pro music and video apps. 

    I feel like if Steve was still with us Apple would have it’s own game engine to rival Unreal, and he’d have punched back at the record labels and launched something that would have helped break the control that the labels had over things… then again I also think that he’d have started an Apple branded virtual carrier… and realistically he probably wouldn’t have done any of these things because they would have been huge gambles that could have blown up in their faces and ticked off partners. 


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  • Musk thankful for Apple's support in Twitter turnaround

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    Honestly, Apple really missed an opportunity here to cut off Musk’s balls. And if somebody from Apple isn’t phoning him up and telling him to keep their name out of his mouth, they’re not doing their job. 
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  • Tests confirm macOS Finder isn't scanning for CSAM images

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    jdw said:
    While forced local scanning on a Mac by government order is a frightful 1984-style nightmare for all citizens (law abiding or not), the upside is that Little Snitch would likely work to block any outgoing transfers.

    The concern here is the same as CSAM scanning on the iPhone. It's more than a matter of personal privacy. It's a concern centered on the possibility that an error could result in a law abiding person being reported to law enforcement, which cares more about filling quotas and busting so-called bad guys than anything else.  Having an accused person's time wasted, or worse, being arrested for something they didn't do only because a computer secretly misread a file on their computer is something no citizen of any nation should stand for.  

    So how do law enforcers deal with law breakers?  How they always have — which doesn't include privacy invasions like file scanning without a search warrant.  It may not be the ideal approach in light of the tech we have today, but it's the only approach to protect citizen from unlawful search and seizure.
    I just to be clear, nobody is concerned about false positives. Everyone clutches their pearls and pretends like that’s the real thing they’re scared of. I used to work in ministry, and everybody always acted as if the worst thing that could happen to you was a false complaint, because after all all complaints are false. 

    You know what happened when I witnessed a prominent minister harassing multiple guys half his age? Everyone worried about his reputation. 

    You know what is infinitely worse than being harassed by the cops? Being kidnapped, stripped  and violated over and over and having that filmed and shared with millions of creeps on the internet, and then having selfish morons in forums debate about whether or not reasonable measures to identify and apprehend the people creating and consuming the content is the end of the world. 

    The reason this isn’t getting implemented is because as soon as they announced that they were doing something very reasonable, apple was hit by a barrage of threats from well connected people who totally don’t consume this material. 

    But unfortunately when you get a threat from the Vatican, people still listen
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  • Apple should be fined $6.4 million over iOS 14 privacy, says French advisor

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    derekmorr said:
    Apple is mass surveillance company. They track everything you do in their apps, and have different rules for themselves vs third parties. Continue the fines. In fact, increase them. 
    You just described every company that collects data. 

    Apple asks users to opt in to analytic data now despite the fact that nobody in their right mind should not want Apple to know if an app is consistently crashing. They use it to identify and fix problems that users might not go out of their way to let them know about. 

    Also it’s a whole lot more useful to have the phone automatically tell them that something crashes when these three apps are doing something verses when Gladys phones in and says her phone stops responding when her neighbour has talked to her that week. And she’s pretty sure the Mexicans are behind everything!
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