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  • If $549 wasn't enough for AirPods Max, you can get a Gucci case for $980

    Alex_VAlex_V
    Reminds me of the story about Gucci (I think it was) spending a bunch of money to develop a patented fake leather. They launched luxury hand bags made with this material. The Chinese copycats couldn’t replicate the fake leather, so they used real leather instead. So, if you bought the real Gucci bag, you got fake leather. If you bought the fake Gucci bag, you got real leather. 
    muthuk_vanalingamJWSCwatto_cobra

  • Gay dating Grindr the latest casualty of China's new PIP law

    Alex_VAlex_V
    hmurchison said:
    Where's Joe Biden? 

    He needs to get to China right now and start threatening sanctions. 

    https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/biden-signs-foreign-policy-memo-putting-u-s-forefront-global-n1256848
    Why? Is the Chinese law a violation of international law, the WTO rules, or a specific trade agreement?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's iPhone 13 is China's most popular smartphone six weeks running

    Alex_VAlex_V
    Incredible. China? That’s a lot of people with a lot of discretionary income. With a middle class fast approaching 1 billion people, China might soon have to outsource manufacturing to low-cost countries in places like Europe (and I’m only half-joking).
    edredwatto_cobra

  • The best weather apps for iPhone and iPad

    Alex_VAlex_V
    mpantone said:
    Multiple weather data providers exist in the USA. The National Weather Service (NOAA) is just one. There are privately operated weather forecasting services as well. The Weather Channel (operated by IBM) is one. Weather Underground is yet another. Go ahead and look at the five day temperature forecast for your ZIP code with all three services. You will definitely see discrepancies.
    The NWS (NOAA) does not create detailed temperature/weather forecasts worldwide. If you use an app/service that sources data from the NWS (NOAA), that same app/service is sourcing international weather forecasts from other sources.
    NWS/NOAA is the most common weather data source provider for the USA but it is most certainly isn't the only one. And this isn't a new development. Private weather data service providers have been around FOR DECADES.
    There are many regional specific/situation specific weather data providers. Surfline provides surf forecasts for many breaks around the world. Stormsurf does so for the US West Coast (focusing on Central California).

    Interesting. Reminds me of the story about the first scientific weather ‘forecasts’ (a newly coined word), here:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32483678

    ‘… the belief persisted among many that weather was completely chaotic. When one MP suggested in the [House of] Commons in 1854 that recent advances in scientific theory might soon allow them to know the weather in London "twenty-four hours beforehand", the House roared with laughter.


    watto_cobra

  • Even if the NSO Group shuts down, it won't stop paid iPhone attacks

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    gatorguy said:
    NSO reportedly had more difficulty with accessing more recent Android phones than they did iPhones. The security model of each platform is far more comparable than you suggest, as you'll realize if you spend a bit of time reading rather than assuming. But no one on this board should have any concerns about being important enough for some agency to spend $1000's, perhaps $10 of thousands on as a target from what I know of our membership.  We're all safe from the likes of NSO. 

    That’s a bit like saying: “The invading army on the other side of the hill, probably don’t want you dead. They’ve got bigger fish to fry.” It just isn’t comforting at all. When governments and other actors spy on, imprison, harass, or murder… political opponents, democracy campaigners, civil rights activists, environmentalists, anywhere in the world, it affects all of us. We should all, at least, voice our opposition, or better, take up arms against the opposing army. 
    JaiOh81williamlondon