waveparticle

gatorguy said:

In hindsight it's easy to understand why it wasn't a good investment of a $Billion, but I don't know that anyone at the time had an inkling of how relations between China and the US would devolve. Maybe it was as simple as Apple believing it might buy its way into the Chinese government's good graces by investing in the Chinese economy. 

hucom2000 said:

I can understand how a satellite is strong enough to send a signal down to earth that cell phones can receive. That would include receiving data. 

But how is a cell phone able to generate enough energy for a signal all the way back to a satellite? 

If you look at the transition from 4G to 5G and the density of antennas needed to render service, it’s a far cry to space…

tmay said:

waveparticle said:

There are serious problems with Apple's own Messages app. I am getting numerous messages from unknown source enticing I to click the links in the message. Obviously these messages are from criminals. I also receive many phones calls from Apple's own Phone app. They are obviously trying to commit fraud. Yet our FBI and FCC are doing nothing to stop or arrest these criminals. Domestic terroisim is more serious in US. Yet the government and congress is obsessed with the hatred toward China. 

DBAD.

This isn't an issue with the iMessage App security. It is an issue with the user not understanding the app.

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-stop-spam-texts-on-iphone-with-message-filtering

Your support of the largest authoritarian government in the world is well established, as is its control over China's population. Whatever issues the U.S. has with privacy pales in comparison to what citizens of the PRC endure.

That the U.S. has become "obsessed" with China started about the time Xi Jinping became Chairman of the Communist Party of China, and the PRC. There isn't anyone in the world that believes that China has become less authoritarian under Xi Jinping. Needless to state, the PRC telegraphs its intentions to challenge the existing rules of order every single day, rules which have served the Global community pretty well since the end of WWII, including the lifting of the people of China out of poverty. But it is China's growing militarism in the Indo-Pacific that is rallying Western democracies to counter, not Xi's internal rule and human rights violations.

sdw2001 said:

That’s because Apple stores are a friggin free for all.  Employees and customers everywhere….doing everything at the same time.  There is no “Genius Bar” anymore.  You check in, then sit down like you’re waiting at the dentist.  Then, a random employee comes up, looks at your device, and whisks it away to the back to fix it. He or she comes back…usually with a fixed device, and you can’t imagine what they did back there.   Then the same person is taking returns, going to the back to retrieve your new device, and checking out people buying things like iPhone cases. It’s a mess and has been since it started.  I miss the actual check out and Genius Bar counter.