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paxman said:

Wgkrueger said:

I hope that solution also includes a provision for hard wired connected car players. 

To be honest you can buy pretty cheap connected bluetooth receivers so no need for a wire to actual phone.

Maybe for cars from the 90s.  Most new cars have the stereo system so completely integrated into the vehicle that you cannot replace them.  So no, your solution does not work with 99% of the cars on the road today that offer CarPlay.  And Bluetooth is awful for listening to music.  The digital connection with USB is far superior for audio quality, and CarPlay functionality.

StrangeDays said:

Hank2.0 said:

The first method involves a user putting the iPhone into a manual recovery mode, triggering the Internet Restore broadcast. This is picked up by nearby Macs or a PC with iTunes installed, which will bring up prompts to guide the user through the rest of the restoration. 

The second way is for the device itself to enter the mode automatically, again bringing up the same prompts. A third apparently involves using Bluetooth as a "last resort" measure to broadcast the signal and for data transfers. 

Completely wireless recovery. What could possibly go wrong?

Are you suggesting things don't go wrong w/ every single device by every manufacturer, today? Clearly they do. 

Apple has been producing techie marvels for almost as long as I've been alive. If they implement this (despite the handwaving, it's only a rumor at this point), I'm sure they will figure it out. They always do. People deny, people panic, people get mad, and then...acceptance. It is the way.

Lately, their techie marvels are riddled with problems.  Look at all the problems with the M1 Macs, most recently the excessive read/writes on the SSDs, significantly reducing the life of the flash storage which renders the Mac completely useless and not repairable without a complete motherboard replacement.  Apple over the past few years has been to release half-baked stuff and 'promise' features many months later.  They did a great job figuring out AirPower, and most recently could not figure out a battery pack for the iPhone, likely scrapping that project too.  Zero benefit to a portless phone when their recovery process still requires a Mac or PC to restore the phone.  Doing it over Wi-Fi (or worse, Bluetooth), just adds pain to the process...and a significant slowdown.  Removing the port does nothing to improve the functionality of the phone, it just takes away many useful features.

horvatic said:

Well for one, Apple Support will not call you out of the blue. You need to contact them first. Two, Apple does not use Xfinity at all so that is a very big scam warning right there.
Three, I don't know of any remote control software for any iPhone. So something doesn't add up in this story and how did that person get all of the banking information to take that money. 

You should read the article next time.  "Francis then says she dialed the support number on Apple's website which she said she got from her packaging from the iPhone."

I guess you think all social engineering hacks don't add up either because you just don't believe they can occur.  Because you don't know of any apps that can control the iPhone don't exist, you must think it is fake?  How did the person get the banking information?  Her banking app on the phone was opened up.

Sad that so many people don't believe in social engineering hacks because it is a phone and not a hard wired computer to be hacked.

I guess none of you have received phishing emails from various companies trying to dupe people into social engineering hacks.  I guess those must not be true either because you all seem to think they are fake because it did not happen to you.

Look at all the Apps that Apple removed from the App Store because their screening process failed to identify rogue apps that are designed to steal your information right off your phone.

Lots of chatting about mini Mac Pros and expandable iMacs.  Have you all not seen the writing on the wall with the M1 Macs?  Everything forward, except for the current Mac Pro Tower, will be non-expandable and non-upgradable.  The M Chip controls everything on the board, and controls way too much.  Memory is now on the chip so you will never see a Mac with user-upgradable memory, except for the current Mac Pro.  The M chip, like the T2, has way too much control of the flash storage, which Apple will keep it soldered on all Macs going forward.  That is dangerous because if a chip fails on the board, your data is history.  Gone are the days of pulling a drive or SSD blade and recovering data for anything not yet backed up.  So we will be stuck paying the Apple Tax with excessive prices for memory and storage.

Didn't Apple learn their lesson with the failed Power Mac G4 Cube and Trash Can Mac Pro from 2013?  The G4 Cube failed because it was $200 more than the faster and more expandable Power Mac G4, so no one bought the Cube.  You can see the same occurring if they do it again.  The iMacs will be more powerful, with a 5K display, and likely cost less than some Mini Pro.  Look what they did when they brought back the tower Mac Pro.  They jacked up the price from $2,499 to $5,999, and everyone was pi$$ed!  The 2013 Mac Pro was a thermal failure.  They could not even update it, ever.  So they will come out with some M-based 'Cube' and overprice it.

And the guy claiming he could get into an iMac and replace the glass in minutes?  Only if it is 2011 or earlier with the magnetic glass, but it takes a lot more than minutes to remove the internal LCD panel, replace it, clean the glass and place it back on the iMac without any dust inside.  The 2012 and later iMacs with the adhesive display is not difficult to open, but takes some time to slice through the adhesive with the proper opening tool, remove the display, and then remove the existing adhesive on both the display and the iMac, then lay down new adhesive pieces in the correct places, and then carefully line up and replace the display.  The only benefit is that the glass and LCD are fused together so you don't have to worry about dust between the glass and the LCD.  I have done that twice to a 21.5" iMac and a 27" iMac to upgrade memory and install SSDs in both.  The 21.5" iMac is a bear because you have to strip the iMac completely to remove the logic board to get to the RAM slots on the backside of the board.

mjtomlin said:

dysamoria said:

mjtomlin said:

22july2013 said:

sflocal said:

avon b7 said:

No chin, at last!

But I've had it with all-in-ones. I'll never buy a desktop Mac with the screen glued onto it again. 

Your complaint is moot.  I think the new iMacs will be essentially a giant iPad with everything soldered in.  Gone will be the days where one could at least upgrade the RAM.

What's your beef with removing the display?  Open that display once (or twice) ever in its life it too much?  I can remove and reinstall my iMac display in minutes.  It's a non-issue.

You expect average people to remove the iMac's display? That's pretty unreasonable.

And from my perspective you're missing the point. If something goes wrong with the CPU or other core component, when the screen is still fine, then there's no reason to remove the screen. The whole point to having a separate screen is so that you don't have to throw out the monitor when the CPU dies. Both of my last two iMacs have given me blue screens of death every week after the first three years (with nothing but Apple's OS on the system.) Yes, I've reinstalled the OS and taken them in to Apple for testing, and they could find nothing. It's just random crashing, and it feels like the Intel CPU. I will never buy an Intel CPU again, even though I can't prove that that's the cause of the problem.

I've had to throw out my iMac screens with my CPUs because they are built in and can't be separated every time the CPU dies. What a waste. 

It extremely unreasonable to believe that average people actually do anything to upgrade their systems. Most don't and those that do, have someone else do it.

And, I think you're missing the point... If you don't like AIO then don't buy one. A lot of people do like them and it's nice HAVING A CHOICE.

Also, aren't all laptops AIO systems? Are you going to argue that they are a waste as well?

You said it’s nice having a choice? Well where is the choice for those of us who don’t want the all-in-one? Plenty of us want a nice large display, made by Apple, and a power-user machine that’s made with a thermally tolerant design and the ability to replace storage devices and RAM. Where’s our choice?

Haha. Give me a break. So now Apple should make products that fit everyone's needs? Apple doesn't owe you a standalone display. Apple makes the products they want to make. You don't like what they offer you do have a choice. Many choices! It's not Apple's fault you don't like what those alternatives are.

You are forgetting that Apple was once the leader in quality displays, going all the way back to the Sony Trinitron based Apple Color 13" Display, and many to follow up to the Thunderbolt Display that many people could easily afford at $999.  It was an embarrassment and an insult for Apple to return to the market with the ridiculously priced $4,999 Pro Display, and then have the nerve to charge $999 for a required stand!  The boos in the crowd were easily heard.  It is Apple's fault, and it is insulting.  They sell a Mac mini for well under a thousand, and then have the nerve to tell their customers to buy a $6,000 display to go with it?  That is exactly what they are doing in their advertising of the product.