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  • Blood oxygen sensor, Touch ID rumored for 'watchOS 7,' Apple Watch 'Series 6'

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    Someone explain to me the use case for touch id in the crown? I only unlock my watch once a day, and that sometimes even happens as a side effect of unlocking my phone.

    I absolutely think we are still in the era where every bit of extra battery capacity makes it better. My new 5 watch gets through the day pretty well (including sleep tracking), but finding 10 minutes here or there during a day is a mild inconvenience.

    A dedicated "sleep mode" that really locks down the device from inputs and display would be better than our current best efficiency option of theater+swimming at night.
    GeorgeBMacrussw

  • iPhone 11 location services controversy quelled with new UWB setting in iOS 13.3.1 beta

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    This is ridiculous. That the UWB even was reported as technically pinging the gps is actually a good sign of trust; that Apple isn’t hiding anything or making any privileged back doors for it. Fundamentally you have to trust the hardware/firmware/os is doing what it says and in good faith. 

    Once it was explained this was a regulatory requirement and a completely local/passive function, that should have been the end of it. Turning off your UWB just to avoid the OS reading it’s own chip doesn’t actually accomplish anything for user privacy. 
    watto_cobra

  • Google now lets iPhones act as FIDO hardware keys for better security

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    FIDO is a convoluted and weird spec where you have a master key that decrypts a site key that is actually stored on the site.. but guess if they can make the apps simple and available enough it might catch on. personally would prefer something like SQRL.
    watto_cobra

  • Satechi launches portable Apple Watch charger with detachable USB-C cable

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    Was going to ask what made it portable til I saw the pic. Not sure it is more portable, but still neat. Totally not worth that sort of premium for me.
    watto_cobra

  • How iTunes went from simple to perplexing -- and gone

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    dxace1 said:
    I defected from Apple years ago amid frustration with its high-priced devices, and software.  I used Itunes Windows version for a while, but when I got hacked for $8k I stopped, and the complications of the software forced me back to the simplicity of storing all my favorite tunes on microSD.  These days you can store zillions of songs and video that way.  Too bad -- Apple screwed itself.
    That makes no sense, iTunes isn't even a "browse untrusted internet" thing. It's only exploit surfaces are your own computer. If you got hacked it is because you screwed up somewhere else, and I doubt they then used iTunes to gain any sort of advantage on your computer.
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