jeffythequick

radarthekat said:

AppleZulu said:

antiprotest said:

Apple's tracking device has saved others as well. For example, a woman in Australia discovered that her boyfriend was tracking her with an AirTag in February.

"It wasn't until I told him I was going to the police to report it that he finally confessed," she continued. "I felt so violated and I was in a state of shock. It just blew my mind that someone I trusted so much could do something like this."

She has since ended the relationship.

The above is not another example of the AirTag saving somebody, but an example of iOS notification saving someone FROM an AirTag. It is an example of an AirTag used for a bad purpose -- the opposite of what the article tries to illustrate. 

The article is correct. The Air Tag's anti-stalking feature alerted the woman to her boyfriend's misuse of the device, likely not the only nefarious thing he was up to. It gave her some vital information she needed to respond appropriately before things got further out of hand. The notification didn't save her from the Air Tag. It saved her from the untrustworthy boyfriend. Tracking tags have been on the market for years. Apple is the first to respond with a built-in solution to the fact that the device can be misused in this way. 

What the boyfriend did is unethical but it doesn’t suggest he may have been up to other nefarious activities.  If we want to speculate, then I might speculate that a significant reason for tracking a romantic partner might be if you suspect he or she is cheating.  In that case the nefarious activity of tracking them would be due to suspected nefarious activity on the partner’s part.  We don’t know if that were the case here, so best not to speculate on either side.  

Another reason to track people is that you want to know where they are, and they give you permission to do so.  My wife tracks me (with my iPhone; I know two different things) just in case my blood sugar goes low.  With my older kids, we track each other, so we know when each other are at work, so we can call each other when we’re at home.

The list of bad reasons to track someone is infinite, but so are the good reasons to do so.  The most important thing is the permission from the person being tracked.  (Duh…)

...which means that there's a new Apple TV coming in September.

It's a strange thing where the best thing to do for your dollar is get the hardware when it first comes out, for longest usage.  If you get it on the day before the new one comes out, there is one less year that the software will support your device.

Anyway, this, and the "back to school" discounts are just the inventory clearing sales that Apple does.  If only Apple had the new stuff come out in July/August, so buyers could get the latest, along with the tax holidays in many states, for the best value.

OK, crying done... moving on...

jellybelly said:

When you show bar charts and point out quarters, it would be nice if you could label the chart better in a graphic program after the chart source exports the chart. 

I did it on my iPad in Vectornator, using it for the first time. Amazing features and amazingly useless search in the help/ support area.  I could have knocked this out in InDesign in 15 minutes or less, which I’ve used since 2003.  And I’d have had the time to do a nicer job. 

I hope you can improve on this and do something like this so we can find all the 2nd quarters for the comparisons. Maybe highlighting the 2nd quarters with shaded rectangles (in multiply mode to make ‘see-through’) would work better. Labeling and dividing the years with vertical rules helps too.

Thanks in advance for considering this. 

I don't have a nice chart like you did, @jellybelly , but can the Gross Margin be a line graph superimposed over the Revenue bars?  I've used those quite a bit where I work, and they really help tell the story.  The offset bars kind of look like things are going up/down.  Just a further improvement on what @jellybelly suggested.  I do like the year markers!

lkrupp said:

As always the weakest link in security is between the ears of the idiots who gladly hand over their credentials to anyone who calls them with an offer too good to be true. And there’s no patch for stupid.

So you’re saying I didn’t:

• Get approved for a new blood checker
• Get a new warranty for my car
• Get approved for a week long hotel?
• Lose an Amazon/UPS/FEDEX package?
• Get a legitimate offer for a Medicare card?  (About 30 years from now I might)

Fred257 said:

That’s it? What a joke… In Silicon Valley that will get you a popsicle…

I think the proper response is, "Thank you"