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  • Woman claims Apple Store lost her MacBook, later found

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    She claimed that her job was on the line because the computer contained passwords that she failed to back up before taking it in for repair.
    Which also means she did not have a backup to prevent against inadvertent deletion or hard drive failure. Serious lack of attention to detail going on here. 

    While there are “two mistakes” (or three if you count the failure to follow good security practices), the user has total control over actions that would have made this a non-story.  What if Apple had determined that the problem was not the display, but a motherboard problem that required replacement of the board and the soldered-on SSD? It’s nice that Apple will review their processes but the ultimate root cause of the problem is failure to take necessary precautions for critical data.

    Equipment can be replaced. Lost data is much more difficult.
    watto_cobra

  • Parallels working to bring Windows 11 to Mac

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    Has Microsoft said for sure that they will support Windows 11 ARM on Apple Silicon and that they will sell a license for it to end users? Developer Previews are beta software and don’t they disappear after the product gets released? 
    VMware has stated they won’t prioitize Windows on ARM for Fusion until Microsoft answers the licensing questions as they do not want to run afoul of EULAs. 
    dewmewatto_cobra

  • Developers claim that Apple's privacy-first features are 'atomic bomb' for revenue

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    If the information gathered through “spying” on customers is more valuable to a company than its actual product, then no wonder we have this “boo hoo Apple is hurting my business”. Offering me products you think I might want by spying on me or “free stuff” is not payment enough for the millions you are making on MY information. 
    baconstangchasmFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Majority of tech staffers say Big Tech wields too much power in new survey

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    Are employees of "big tech" suddenly gaining a conscience?

    Unfortunately unless management feels the same way as their employees, or consumers stop doing business with them, "too much power" ( a very nebulous term, by the way) won't get fixed.  That's unfortunately because people like free or cheap stuff. Until we all as a society realize what the real cost of how these services are being delivered by these companies is and decide that it's not what we want,  companies like those aforementioned will continue to thrive.

    Maybe if "government" had not allowed some of these big tech mergers to occur, they wouldn't have to go back and fix the problems they've caused. I think it's way overdue for the GDPR like legislation here in the USA (and take it a step further in that all sharing of PII must be opt out by default).

    Hmmm.. "which of these 'Big Tech' companies is not like the others" = Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon. 

     


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  • Arizona bill that could force Apple App Store to allow third-party payments one step close...

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    This law is so brain dead it's sickening. So what's the difference between Apple/Google and Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo for in-game purchases? Answer: they're not Apple or Google.

    The question I have is that in the context of this legislation,  who does the software distribution? The expectation should not be that Apple should do it for free. I'm not a lawyer - but the way this reads any attempt for Apple to charge for use of its distribution infrastructure or deny the use of it since Apple receives no revenue could be interpreted as "retaliation" 

    Would it also be considered "retaliation" if Apple decides not to do business with a developer because Apple does not make money on the relationship?
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