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AppleInsider said:

"So when it comes to what matters most, protecting people's messages, I think that [our] WhatsApp is clearly superior," Mark Zuckerberg continued. "I do want to highlight that we increasingly see Apple as one of our biggest competitors. 

I think that the facts speak for themselves...

• Several independent reviews have indicated that Facebook Messenger is the worst violator of consumer privacy with 135 (one hundred and thirty five) consumer data points being vacuumed up by Facebook.
• WhatsApp is a whole lot better, gobbling up only 25 (twenty five) consumer data points from usage of the app.
• iMessenger is not wholly innocent in this regard as it pulls 4 (four) consumer data points which Apple arguably probably already has from your iCloud and Apple ID (i.e. email address, phone number, device id, and search history).
• Signal needs 1 (one) item about you to work - your phone number. Researchers say, unlike other messaging apps, Signal makes no attempt to link your phone number to your identity.

22july2013 said:

I presume this article is talking about 32 cores being on the same die. If true, that's good to hear. But don't see why Apple couldn't put multiple physical packages with N-cores each on the same system board. Moreover, Apple should do this as an expansion card for existing Intel Mac Pros so that Intel Mac Pros can run M1-apps natively.

For anyone paying attention to Apple over the last few years... and for anyone paying attention at their most recent product redesigns... Apple has clearly declared war on end-user replaceable or upgradable modularity. Apple Silicon gives them the ability to make a giant leap towards turning the Mac into a personal computing appliance. They will get close, but, in my opinion, they will never really accomplish that goal because it will be impossible to turn what is currently a general computing operating system that people can run almost anything that they want on, into a locked-down firmware-like OS that can only run apps that Apple has deemed worthy to be allowed.

Fewer and fewer Apple devices offer end-user upgradable storage, memory, CPU, GPU, etc. None of the latest Apple Silicon Macs offer any means for an end-user to upgrade or replace the CPU, Memory, Storage, GPU... or anything that was not originally ordered with the machine, for that matter. If you have an Intel Mac, you can install and run any recent version of macOS. On an Apple Silicon Mac, you can only install and run macOS Big Sur... macOS is likely to be the only end-user upgradable part of a Mac appliance in future.

Apple purchased Shazam a few years ago... and not only is it still available on Android, but it is also now available completely ad-free to everybody.

So, I wonder what decision matrix Apple goes thgrough when deciding whether or not to keep supporting and updating versions of recent acquisitions available on rival platforms. Why did Apple decide to keep developing Shazam on Android, but has decided not to keep developing Dark Sky?

According to ETSI (European version of FCC), the following categories of consumer devices can be detected by Apple's U1 UWB chip:

• Baby Monitors
• Alarm Systems
• Access Cards
• Digital Car Keys
• Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Devices
• Zigbee Devices
• Digital Transmission Systems (DTS)
• RFID Tags
• Remote Control Cars
• NFC Tags
• MiFare Tags and Stickers
• Wide Band Medical Telemetry Systems (WMTS)
• Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS)

d_2 said:

fastasleep said:

Weird. Why not lower tier iPhones or iPads and spend half as much?

Perhaps they bought them for something like $400 each in that kind of quantity, as they certainly did not pay $749 each ... assuming usd conversion from pounds ... and thus they have a first rate device that their crews can easily use (big screen) for a longer term (latest spec internals).

That response does not make any sense. If Apple was offering a big volume discount, then a big volume discount on the same number of... let's say the latest iPad mini with celular... would still cost BA a whole lot less than the same number of iPhone XR with the same volume discount, for a device that is more practical as a hand-held customer service device.

Using your example of a volume discount of 46.5% off, BA would pay $282 for each iPad mini with cellular (from $529), instead of $400 for each iPhone XR (from $749). That is over $1.7 million difference.