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  • Apple's A16 processor to be exclusive to iPhone 14 Pro, says Kuo

    swineoneswineone
    Great, Apple just saved me the temptation of upgrading from my current iPhone 13 (non-Pro).
    entropys

  • If US lawmakers are good at anything, it's failing at technology

    swineoneswineone
    Newsflash: politicians are incompetent!

    You know what, if I knew someone was incompetent, I’d want to strip them off their ability to do harm through their incompetence, taking away their power and money.

    Yet people call for ever and ever more government interference and playing Robin Hood. People here are quick to realize politicians have zero clue about technology (and really, if this was a site about X, they’d realize just as well they have zero clue about X), but do they really think they are any less clueless about economics, science, health, education or any other topic?
    watto_cobramaximara

  • Sideloading is a malware danger, Apple tells U.S. lawmakers

    swineoneswineone
    larryjw said:
    One side loading issue has not been brought up -- maybe because I'm wrong. But here it goes.

    iPads, iPhones, Apple TVs, etc are general purpose computers, but are restricted by Apple from being programmed to behave as such. Apple's restrictions on these devices prevent apps from being general programming devices -- you can't install a c compiler, fortran, Julia, lisp, etc.

    So, you can't turn these devices into network monitors, scanners which allow them to snoop around. 

    This is on my mind.

    As an election official, the bogus claims of election fraud and the nonsense that voting machines were being controlled from China, Brazil, etc to change votes from Trump to Biden has strong backing by 70% of Republicans opens up the argument that anyone carrying an iPhone could be hacking into voting machines and thus invalidating every election result. I'm sure there is nothing that would prevent that story from gaining widespread adoption. No proof is necessary.

    Of course, there is nothing to prevent these any machines from using http, or VNC protocols from controlling other machines if they've been designed to allow that connection. 

    There is nothing now that prevents any computer from monitoring insecure networks if users don't use VPN services. 

    At least, at this time, we can look to Apple to implement security protocols that limits snooping of, and by, our devices; but if side loading is allowed, no security of any kind is likely to be effective. 


    Right, because only iPhones are allowed at polling places. Androids are banned.

    Also, any iPhones where the guy coded something (or downloaded a project from GitHub), and compiled and sideloaded it via the already existing Xcode route, which by the way doesn’t require a $99 developer account.

    Geez, the arguments are getting ever more desperate. Hopefully that’s a sign we’re going to win this war and finally have the right to do whatever we want with the hardware we bought and paid for, as we should have since the beginning.
    muthuk_vanalingamelijahg

  • Sideloading is a malware danger, Apple tells U.S. lawmakers

    swineoneswineone
    Company that profits hugely from a 30% cut from non-sideloaded apps claims that sideloading is dangerous. It certainly is — to their bottom line.

    The only thing I’m surprised by is that anyone would even bother reading what Apple writes on the subject, given their inherent conflict of interest.
    xyzzy-xxxmuthuk_vanalingamelijahg

  • These are the Mac features exclusive to Apple Silicon

    swineoneswineone
    "A Mac with Apple Silicon inside isn't just noticeably faster than their Intel counterparts; it's capable of a few other exclusive features too. Here is what an Apple Silicon-based Mac can do that the Intel Macs can't."

    "but as Apple can control every facet of these chips, there is currently a subset of Mac features exclusive only to Apple's chipsets."

    Let's not kid ourselves. All features listed (even running iOS/iPadOS apps) are well within the realms of the computing power available on Intel-based Macs. Hell, Dragon NaturallySpeaking did on-device dictation what, over 20 years ago? Surely not as well as Siri today, but then again, you can't compare a few-hundred-MHz Pentium Pro or Pentium II to current chips (and even older ones).

    It's not a technical issue, but merely a marketing strategy of differentiation to move new product. And Apple is (or at least should be, you never know with governments these days) well within their rights to do so. But don't pretend there's some magical Apple Silicon fairy dust that enables this. It's just good old marketing.
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