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  • Tim Cook wants to debut one more big product category before he retires

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    It should have been home robots based on the technology Apple created to operate its automated factories all over the world ... but Apple did none of that. Cook is an amazing CEO. He has consistently created excellent products with amazing build quality and design containing some of the latest silicon on the market and got it produced in sufficient quantities to satisfy the market and released them on time year after year. Unfortunately he never had the kind of vision for the future that Steve Jobs did. Cook never disrupted the market the way Jobs did routinely. The lack of a $300 Mac Nano which would have moved Apple's 8% computer market share to 25% is the clearest evidence of this fact.
    What’s clear to me is that you have offered zero evidence to suggest that a $300 Mac Nano (is offered) would significantly increase the Mac market share let alone skyrocket it to 25%.  I believe that it’s current plan to push the performance envelope, while maintaining a pro-sumer market strategy and building out a more robust handheld market will continue to gain market share worldwide.
    spock1234radarthekatviclauyycmike1roundaboutnowfastasleeppscooter63

  • Edward Snowden calls Apple CSAM plans 'disaster-in-the-making'

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    darkvader said:
    fastasleep said:
    cpsro said:
    iOS 15 Mail has a feature to obscure your IP address when loading remote images… and Apple offers to load them automatically with the obscured IP. How many people will have no idea what this is really about and choose to load images automatically? While the IP is obscured, the mere act of loading images confirms your email address is valid, that the messages are read, and indicates when they are read. So much for privacy.
    How is this related to this article in any way? "So much for privacy", like it's Apple's fault. They remove tracking pixels and will be doing a few other things to obfuscate data for senders, but yes you are correct that loading remote content attached to your user ID reveals you opened it. This is an improvement over what's currently offered, and there's no magic solution here. What is your solution?

    Don't open remote images in mail.  The solution couldn't be more obvious or simple, and it should be the default.

    And yes, that's completely different from Apple's spyware that scans your data on your phone.
    Here’s the problem, “scans your data on your phones” is a disingenuous characterization.  They have very clearly restricted the code to the iCloud interface.  It only hashes pictures flagged for iCloud use and compares those hashes to the intersection of two distinct third party databases.  They are not scanning to entirety of your phone because this is not a specific API.  They have looked at the Supreme Courts rulings and understand that they cannot be forced to turn this into a general API (and thus available to all programs.  So please take your Edgelord self off of my apartment ledge.
    StrangeDaysfastasleepDetnator

  • Apple's lobbying against Georgia app store bill included threats to pull investments

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    ericthehalfbee said:
    So we have rumors from an “anonymous” source about Apple vs hard facts about Epic and somehow this writer for Politico is slagging Apple?

    Biased much?
    First time reading Politico?  I mean it’s right there in it’s name.
    applguywatto_cobra

  • Apple details user privacy, security features built into its CSAM scanning system

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    markbyrn said:
    To quote Apple in 2019, "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone."  If Cook and company are willing to break that promise, it's safe to assume they won't honor their promise to only scan for CSAM.  As much as Apple's biggest defenders try to spin this betrayal as being noble, CSAM is just the proverbial Trojan Horse.   In 2021, Apple's new mantra will be, "You must surrender privacy under the guise of protecting children."
    Sorry, but that’s BS.  They aren’t  run checks on what you keep on your phone, only what you send in an uplink to your iCloud account.  This is in preparation, I believe, for the complete end-to-end encryption of everything that leaves your phone.  This is also not a case where they are scanning and recording the photos on your phone.  They hash all the content and comparing it to hashes of known material.  Surveillance state this is not!
    foregoneconclusionDBSyncfastasleep

  • 2022 iPhones, Macs could boast 3nm chips

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    blastdoor said:
    robaba said:
    Don’t have any inside or industry knowledge here but shipping 3nm devices in 2022 seems a little optimistic.  Even if chips end up being produced in quantity in ‘22, they’ve still got to be installed in the products themselves, and Apple always wants to have plenty on hand to get the most out of the initial buying frenzy.  Nothing kills a party faster than running the keg dry.
    Right — no way iPhones in 2022. Second half is too late.

    but Macs and iPads makes sense. Lower volume, more flexibility in release date. 
    Absolutely.
    watto_cobra