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"The statement also doesn't address that the terms still seem to breach confidentiality agreements that artists may have signed, should they use cloud-based, well, anything, from Adobe."

I'm not a lawyer, but I think it does, actually. It's pretty clear that if you put anything on their servers, they reserve the right to scan it for illegal activity, and if such activity is detected, escalate it for human review, and then on to law enforcement, etc., as necessary.

Nondisclosure agreements do not shield illegal activity. So if you're photoshopping kiddie porn and using Adobe's servers to do it, the breach of your NDA is the least of your problems. 

If you're not operating a criminal conspiracy and your nondisclosure agreement says you will guarantee that no one will ever possibly be able to look at covered content, then you're going to do your work in your own little SCIF on a device that isn't connected to the internet.

I'm not an expert, but my bet is that most NDAs will say something more along the lines that you will take reasonable measures to assure the security of the covered content. In that case, posting drafts of your work on instagram to get your friends' opinions of it is a violation of your NDA. Storing it on a server that's scanned for illegal activity probably isn't, nor would it be a violation if someone breaks into your locked office and steals the material. 

It's absolutely valid to ask questions about these things, but especially when the issue blows up publicly, it should be no surprise that it takes a few days to get an answer. Once it's gone off the rails, the engineers, executives and lawyers will all be in sweaty meetings thinking, rethinking and overthinking the response, because they know at that point whatever they say will be challenged with a "yeah, but what do you mean by..." response. 

zeus423 said:

jdw said:

No doubt it will be unusual by me, just as Apple Keychain is.  I refuse to enable stupid 2FA, so I can't use Keychain.  However, I can use 1Password (an older version that has no absurd subscription attached to it).  Since 1Password still works for me, it largely doesn't matter what Apple does, but I would prefer to obliteration of 2FA at some point in the future.  I refuse to be possibly locked out of a particular device only because I don't have the means (device or others) for that 2FA to work.  Passwords are enough for me, regardless of what the 2FA worshippers and security experts have to say.  I want control to do as I please.  2FA takes some of my freedom away, and I don't like that.

Right there with you. 1Password, no subscription for me either! I'm not paying for the same software for the rest of my life.

So you store all your passwords in an app that doesn’t get security updates? What could possibly go wrong?

Came here to see the knee-jerk semi-racist and pretty-much-racist responses to anything ever posted here related to this subject. I was unsurprised to find it stacking up as expected.

It's funny when people object to intentional efforts for diversity and inclusion as a pearl-clutching affront to "merit-based" hiring, as if merit based hiring has ever been a thing. When non-male, non-white people are excluded and steered away from a field like coding or engineering at every turn starting with early childhood, the resultant competition among the folks who make it to the point where they can even apply for the job cannot then be called winners in a merit-based system. If your competition has been repeatedly kneecapped before they ever make it to the starting line, getting to the finish line first does not make you a merit-based winner. If half your competition has never had a chance to get to the race, even as you "win," you should know that you've never actually been tested in a merit-based system.

"Renaming Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos to the simple "Passthrough" would seemingly fit this pattern, while also allowing for a significantly shorter name."

What? That makes absolutely no sense. Yes, Apple has changed the names of various features over the years, but the new moniker made sense as a descriptor for the feature in question. "Passthrough" is in no way descriptive of spatial audio.

You might come up with better speculative ideas if you looked up the definition of the term, particularly in relation to electronics and audio: "In signal processing, a passthrough is a logic gate that enables a signal to 'pass through' unaltered, sometimes with little alteration. Sometimes the concept of a 'passthrough' can also involve daisy chain logic." This definition is from the Apple's own "lookup" feature. Setting aside the mildly amusing redundant phrase about alteration, this definition suggests that the feature will perhaps involve transmitting or transferring audio signals without degrading it by running it through some sort of compression codec. Perhaps they're devising a way to get spatial and lossless audio to wireless AirPods without squeezing it through Bluetooth. 

I replaced an OG iPad Pro with the 11" M4. So far I'm quite pleased. My OG model had a folio keyboard. It was a 2nd one, actually, a warranty replacement that also died and became a plain folio cover. It's probably good that they've shelved that design. The Magic Keyboard for the M4 is far more robust and will be much more likely to stand the test of time. That said, despite the description in the review above, I am surprised at its weight. I haven't put it on a scale, but it seems to be about the same as the iPad itself, so coming from the prior folio keyboard this thing is heavy.