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Elon Musk says he talked with Apple about satellite communication
dk49 said:Connecting to Starlink requires a big dish. How will the iPhone overcome that?There's another informative AI article on this feature. The consensus from the comments is that Globalstar are providing the satellite connection.From Wikipedia, Globalstar have 24 LEO satellites providing worldwide coverage. So their orbits should be well-known to the iPhone (based on time and GPS location).So why doesn't the iPhone 14 need a big dish? Because the data rate is VERY LOW, probably 10's of kb/s or even lower. This makes the required signal-to-noise ratio to get the signal out very low, so a small (poor performance) antenna on the iPhone would be sufficient IF pointed correctly (directly at one of the 24 satellites).Apple mentioned that a data compression algorithm will greatly minimize the amount of data to be sent, so sending a few hundred bytes at a very slow rate would take less than a minute, or a few minutes with several retries. I would expect some sort of error correction in the data to help with transmission accuracy. See Shannon's limit.What I don't know is if there is an acknowledgement back to the iPhone. I eagerly await AI's promised article on the physics behind this service!Edit: upon second thought, an ack to the iPhone should be possible, as the weak link (no pun intended) is the iPhone-to-satellite connection. The satellite has much higher power than the iPhone, so I suspect you will get an ack on the iPhone.
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RCS is still half-baked, and Apple has no reason to adopt it
silverwarloc said:Here's a link from ArsTechnica. Provides a little more technical background and history: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs-apple-for-mercy-in-messaging-war/I was going to reference that article. The one section that caught my attention was this:"If you want to implement RCS, you'll need to run the messages through some kind of service, and who provides that server? It will probably be Google. Google bought Jibe, the leading RCS server provider, in 2015."Furthermore, Google's RCS API implements end-to-end encryption, but that API is proprietary and not available to third parties, according to the Ars article. The AI article mentions that end-to-end encryption is not part of the RCS protocol (per carrier implementation).
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Apple uses Messages colors to bully Android users, says Google
mjtomlin said:The BIGGEST difference (and arguably the most important), between the blue and green bubbles… is that it shows which messages are end to end encrypted and which are not. All blue bubbles are encrypted. Green are not.From what I've read, RCS may or may not be end-to-end encrypted (Google Messages app has it, but other apps may or may not support it), while iMessage is always encrypted. It seems like RCS (Rich Communication Suite) is more about content than security. So just saying you support RCS does not imply encryption. Perhaps this ambiguity on encryption is why Apple don't support RCS.Edit: RCS does not specify encryption. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/
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NSO considering killing Pegasus spyware under financial & lawsuit pressure
dantheman827 said:I would rather Apple actually fix flaws like these instead of hiding behind the censorship of lawsuits.I agree.But I actually think that if the NSO Group stopped selling Pegasus, the source code would be eventually sold to someone and proliferate wildly on the dark web. (Then maybe Apple could buy it and really harden iOS against these exploits.)
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'High Power Mode' coming to 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max, Apple confirms
Bring back the Turbo button!
