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  • Los Angeles court orders woman to unlock Touch ID-equipped iPhone for FBI

    Rosyna said:

    This isn't correct. TouchID has numerous safeguards for this exact type of situation. TouchID does not use the fingerprint as a master password and is automatically disabled in these cases:

    After 48 hours of non-use.
    After a reboot.
    After five incorrect attempts. (You cannot be forced to tell LEOs which finger it is).
    If a lock command is sent to the device via Find My iPhone.

    TouchID is meant to enable the usage of much longer and more secure passcodes without the risk of lookiloos seeing you enter it.

    When TouchID is disabled, people tend to choose extremely short, 4 digit PINs due to how tedious it is to enter better passcodes on a mobile device.

    I use the longest passcode I can 
    also 48 hours seems long they should 1/2 that in future iOS or iPhone iterations just my 2 cents 
    I would have delayed until 48 hours lapsed. Certainly would have faced contempt charges and possible confinement but it wouldn't be indefinite. Grabbing my hand and forcing me to unlock the phone would by all counts be considered assault. I would have done this if I was innocent or guilty. If they want on your phone that bad, no matter what they find they will look for ways to make it incriminating. 
    potatoleeksoupcali
  • Exclusive: Apple's top secret 'Athena' chip fab gets new 'delicate equipment'

    schlack said:
    i'm going with manufacturing their own baseband chips; what better way to maintain security than to have a vertical through manufacturing.
    when the rumor came out they were looking at building their own cloud servers to keep them free of backdoors, the first thing I thought about was the com chips in the iPhones and Macs. What better way for the NSA to compromise every device than to have a standardized backdoor to snoop on every network interface made by broadcom, qualcomm, etc.. 
    palominecornchipbyronl
  • Apple buybacks to resume on Friday, gobbling up stock priced near the lowest of 2016

    sog35 said:

    If that floats your boat, what don't you invest in Google instead of Apple? Seriously all you have done is claim Apple needs to transform into Google. Why suffer though a transition when you can just invest in the real thing? Then when Google is floundering on services and ads have run their course, you can advise them to step up their hardware business and be like Apple. 
    Google is valued way to high. Even if it executes perfectly for the next 5 years it will barely justify its valuation. 

    I'm not saying Apple needs to be Google. I'm saying Apple needs to be a platform company. That means controlling the hardware, software, AND SERVICES. That's why they dominated with the iPod/iTunes.  But with iPhone they have let other companies take over services. And that is hurting Apple.

    IMO, the first company to reach a TRILLION $ valuation needs to control all 3.  Hardware, Software, and Services.  Apple already owns hardware and software (iOS). They need to catch up on services. Google sucks at hardware and their software(Android) is compromised.  
    "hurting Apple" relative to what? I agree their services need to improve and become a bigger part of their business. just as they also need to see more hardware that is not phones and tablets, but the entire iPod / iTunes business duopoly from brith to now is a fart in the wind compared to quarterly iPhone sales and part of the attractiveness of the device now is that people are not locked into OEM services bundles. I can buy an iPhone and use Spotify for music or Dropbox for files and google docs/drive or office 365 for work. Apple should compete with services and deliver a superior offering but don't expect the lock in that they had with the iPod. Also don't expect a dedicated ad division or push into true social for Apple either. It's just not what they do and they have pretty much stated it's not their business to collect and sell personal data. Bot managed iAds for apps is about all you are going to see from Apple.

    I just don't think there is a balance where Apple can do what it does well with hardware and also do what google does to maximize profitability on its services without one negatively impacting the other. In the end you will have premium services that appeal to a subset of Apple hardware customers that generate about all the subscription revenue available in the market but still only attract a small subset of users while the rest of the world is happy to exchange personal data for likes and tolerate ads for content using Google or Facebook. And both camps will exist side by side using iPhones. 
    palomine
  • Apple's iPad Pro beating Microsoft Surface in 'detachable' tablet market

    kent909 said:
    Maybe it's me, but I don't see any correlation between the article and the data table. The table does not breakout detachable devices, unless all are considered as such. So where does the 4.9 mil. come from?
    Yeah, the table just shows shipments by tablet manufacturer. No real indication how many units are Surface Pro class devices with detachable keyboards and all those iPads aren't Pros.
    jackansi
  • Apple's iPad Pro beating Microsoft Surface in 'detachable' tablet market

    What?!! That can't be right. Real work requires a real computer with a real operating systems and a filesystem. /s
    magman1979pscooter63chiajony0cornchip