andrehinds

For Apple, it's a scorched-earth policy: We know everybody's going to try to copy us. We know we can't keep you from doing that. But we can make it hurt to do so. It's the one-thousand-paper-cuts defense.

> Man arrested for stealing 27 iPhones at Firefly Music Festival

Eliminating all ports would help Apple make the device completely waterproof, which most users would adopt as The New Normal. Apple could place a diagnostic port inside the device to allow them a physical way to charge it and diagnose problems, but keep the information of the port out of the hands of third parties interested in hacking into the device, its networking and its data. Since it would be a port for internal use only, they would not have to publish the specs for the port, and they could insert hardware and software roadblocks to minimize reverse engineering.

It's just a shame that the iPhone X is such a flop.

I tried a beta of Authenticator last year and never got it to work. When I called Microsoft for help, I never got anyone in their so-called Customer Service who even understood what Authenticator was. Undoubtedly not ready for Prime Time.