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Police, GreyShift struggle to keep iPhone unlocking tool purchases secret
Won’t be surprised if very soon the charging port is gone.
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Apple expanding child safety features across iMessage, Siri, iCloud Photos
Putting all the slippery slope, authoritarian government, false positives arguments aside I don’t see how this isn’t a PR nightmare for Apple right now. Apple has been banging the privacy drum for years now. (Remember that billboard in Vegas, what’s on your phone stays on your phone?) How do they explain this in terms non technical people will understand? I get what they’re doing here. I can see how it can be abused. But at the end of the day Apple just bought themselves a huge amount of bad press. Checking data on my device doesn’t jive with “we can’t see what’s on your phone”. Nor being able to tell that someone is sexting in iMessages. I see a Steve Jobs (like the antenna gate one) style video coming soon from Cook.
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AirPods Pro get Conversation Boost in latest beta firmware release
These are AI’s videos. Usually nothing to do with the story. Once you scroll past them they pop up in a bar at the bottom and continue to play. Incredibly annoying.ArchStanton said:
It is. AI and other sites have to pay for the site so it is understandable some ads must be run. But some sites fill every corner with ads and videos and makes the site not very usable. I don't think that's AI but its web access usually does have a video playing.Japhey said:
How are you accessing the site? Web? I use the AI app on iPhone or iPad and I’ve never had auto play videos. I would definitely find them annoying if I did though.entropys said:At least there is no auto play video in this article.
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Twitter working on Sign in with Apple support
sdw2001 said:
The point is these companies have gone beyond private platforms. They have become or at least control the new public square. They are now no different than phone companies were 50 years ago. They’ve become common carriers. It’s why that all politics aside, I think Trump’s lawsuit might have a chance. The government cannot employ private contractors to do that which is prevented from doing. There is at least some evidence that this is exactly what’s been happening, off the books.swat671 said:
You do realize they're a private company and they can do whatever the heck they want, right? Right?notproust said:This is not a good trend. Twitter has done a lot of censoring of posters over the years that is deeply undemocratic . A notable example was censorship by Twitter of the NYPost's 100% true story about Hunter Biden's laptop and activities. Such things work against the principles of a free society, as did Apple's peremptory removal of Parler from the App store. Big Tech should take itself out of the censorship business for the good of every citizen of whatever politics.The other part is the “start your own” argument falls flat. These companies use their dominance to squeeze out or even destroy competitors. We saw that with Parler. Apple, Google and Amazon basically control the internet. When they took out Parler, it was swift, total and simultaneous. We already know about FB and Twitter. These companies are manipulating the public, privately funding elections through various methods, colluding with the government and traditional media, and more. It has to stop.So if Twitter or FB (or whatever is the newest thing in SM) were to go belly up then the government would have to bail them out, no? After all they’re “the new public square” (kind of an odd term really consider they’re private companies). I don’t see how Apple controls the Internet. They don’t have a search engine, if anything the ISPs control the internet. They do have control over their iOS stores, but that’s another debate. But they’re far from a monopoly. Macs have like less than 15% market share.
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Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
I beg to differ. A lot, a real lot, of apps will just opt out of Apple’s App Store. They’re just not going to pay that 30% (or whatever Apple drops that to). They’ll just be a lot less apps in the store, like the Mac App Store. A lot of us will stuck buying out of the store and paying who knows who. With no control over spyware or malware.CloudTalkin said:
No they won't. That's silly. The common user is going to do what they've always done: install apps from the App Store. It's what almost every common user does; choose the path of least resistance. That's not a knock against the common user (I consider myself among them), it's simple human nature. That path only leads to the App Store. It's the same for almost every ecosystem save one: Windows. iOS users overwhelmingly use the App Store and will continue to do so. Android users overwhelmingly use the Play Store and they've been able to sideload almost since inception. Amazon users dl mostly from Amazon. Chinese users dl from their primary app stores.lkrupp said:And this is what iOS and iPadOs users will face when side-loading is forced upon Apple. Adware and Spyware will be ram[pant like it is on macOS. Those who claim to be aware enough to avoid it might be okay but the common user will choose to install some cutesy app from god-knows-where and, well, there you have it. It’s probably coming and iOS users will be in the same camp as Android users. Buyer beware.
Mac users may be more inclined to dl outside of the MAS than iOS users outside of the App Store, but I still think the majority of apps are dl'd through it. Windows is the exception because Windows users typically are more used to downloading from the web instead of an app store, which really wasn't a thing until Win8 in 2012. No, Windows Marketplace (hahahahahahahahaha) doesn't count. Wait, where was I?
Oh yeah, please stop with the FUD.
