Mike Wuerthele

carnegie said:

This could have been staged, under the circumstances I wouldn't argue that it wasn't. But some of these things don't seem suspicious to me.

First, she indicates that she didn't go file a report with the police. So it makes sense that they wouldn't have a searchable report. Second, you can get the last 4 digits of the phone number a found AirTag is linked to even if it isn't in lost mode and the owner hasn't shared their whole phone number. (Using NFC you can get a link that leads to a page that looks like the second image on this page.) Third, I don't think she - in addition to her friend - would have gotten an alert about an unknown AirTag if she had bluetooth turned off on her iPhone. I'm not sure how common it is, but some people I know routinely have bluetooth turned off on their iPhones. And her friend might have just gotten the alert shortly before she would have. (Maybe her friend was traveling with her the whole time? That isn't clear.)

Anyway, maybe this is legit. Or, of course, maybe it isn't.

ivanh said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ivanh said:

Not only updates, but also equal level and priority of services.  No planned obsolescence. No discrimination of older devices to access of services. Other nations in the world should follow Germany.

There are features in hardware in newer chips than the A9 that Apple uses, and aren't available in the iPhone 6. So you're suggesting that these features not happen, because they can't be implemented in the iPhone 6?

JFC_PA hit the nail on the head.

What you want with feature parity is never going to happen. You're confusing the march of technology with "planned obsolescence" which you apply thickly whenever something happens that you don't like.

Don’t forget that many newer features are already not available to older devices. E.g. Location services are not available to MacBook Pro 2011.  Besides, how come a few weeks before every new hardware /replacement devices/OS is coming up, the older device would run slower or even not working. e.g. Apple Watch series 2 / Nike watch don’t have weather info, sun rise, sunset since it’s not watchOS upgradable. 
You buy ONLY the hardware, but Apple “give” you to use their software at their mercy? Are we slave?

ivanh said:

Not only updates, but also equal level and priority of services.  No planned obsolescence. No discrimination of older devices to access of services. Other nations in the world should follow Germany.

OllyJ said:

Apple Pay has no limit at all. I can confirm this as I have used it to pay £80,000 on a new car. 

No idea why this article has been written. 

loopless said:

Someone else did make a very good point. Images sent to an iPhone user on WhatsApp and iMessage can end up in iCloud photos unintentionally. So some person can send child porn to others in a 'swatting attack' and they will get flagged as a pervert when the image ends up in iCloud. 

And we have to ask , is the the crime of possession of these images worth the largest tech company in the world throwing its privacy reputation in the trash can? Child abuse takes many forms  - however  it seems this just seems to whip up a fever in the good old religious, moral majority USA. For a wealthy country, the USA has awful levels of child poverty, malnutrition and deaths in child birth particularly amongst minorities. Why not address those issues ?