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  • Apple's first foldable screen probably won't be on the iPhone

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    schlack said:
    They can't risk their bread and butter revenue and reputation from iPhones on a folding device imho - risk of customer adoption, failure rates, cost, etc.

    Makes total sense to take a low volume, low revenue product like the iPad mini and rerelease it as a folding iPad, roughly phone sized when folded, to gauge demand, understand the failure rates and modalities, etc. If it's a killer product, people who don't typically buy iPad Minis will start adoption them.

    Personally, I don't want a folding phone, at least anytime soon, and would find it frustrating to see iPhone adopt this form factor.
    I have zero interest in a folding iPad.  It really gains nothing by folding. Folding doesn't make it small enough to put anywhere it wouldn't already be able to go.

    But, a folding phone would make sense. Make it be able to fold so it fits in my pocket, but can fold open to a larger screen size.  I don't want one of the huge phones available now, but if it folded in half, well, now that's exciting.

    There are other foldables on the market today.  Unfortunately, I haven't met anyone yet that has gotten theirs to last a significant period of time.  If you get one, take advantage of the trade in every year program for sure!!
    Oferdewmemuthuk_vanalingam

  • If you want blue iMessage bubbles that much, buy an iPhone

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    Apple doesn't allow 3rd party apps to access SMS messages for good reason.  SMS is regularly used for 2 factor authentication. If apps could access SMS, rogue apps could then send those messages off to other servers. Not cool.

    Messages does a relatively good job of bridging SMS with iMessage so users could use one app to access both.  Splitting SMS into its own app could be an option, but would then make iMessage its own app, incompatible with devices that don't have iMessage installed.  Apple COULD write an iMessage app for Android, but gaining adoption would be challenging.
    williamlondonradarthekatwatto_cobra

  • If you're using a Magic Keyboard, you've opened up an attack vector

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    AppleZulu said:
    It's hard to imagine real-world scenarios where this vulnerability is useful enough for a hacker to actually bother with it. The scheme requires the hacker to be very proximate to the victim and very, very patient and/or very, very skilled at directly manipulating the victim. For a hacker to execute some exploit of value, the victim has to already be logged into their device, logged into a target app or website, and then distracted enough to not look at their device for long enough while also not noticing a person looking over their shoulder at their screen while typing furiously. Though not quite to the same extreme, this is almost akin to the warnings that Touch ID was going to result in a rash of victims with stolen devices and severed fingers. 

    No security is 100%, but vulnerabilities that require elaborate schemes to exploit them are low-probability problems.
    Believe it or not, key commands can be used to open terminal, execute a command, then close terminal.  Yes, the user would need to be distracted enough not to see that happen on screen, but the hacker doesn't need to see the screen to do that.

    An easy to think of scenario is if someone had a computer locked in their office. Hacker next door is able to hack the keyboard to wake the machine, run a command to copy a directory on the machine to a network server, then quits terminal.  No need to see the machine to pull this task off. This can be done when they know the computer isn't being looked at. The user would likely not have any clue that this happened.

    That's certainly a vulnerability to be concerned with.
    baconstangwatto_cobracommand_f

  • ExpressVPN brings its VPN app to the Apple TV

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    I get that people WANT VPNs to get around restrictions, but isn't that pretty similar to having an app that lets you pirate videos?  You don't want to follow the rules and pay what's needed where it's needed, so who cares about the TOS that you agreed to, right?
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Google Drive users complain of missing files, months of data disappearing

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    slurpy said:
    danox said:
    Never trust cloud services for storage for longer than a day and that is only in a temporary emergency. And Google never.
    That's just an unrealistic and untenable mentality in this day and age. Literally everything lives in the cloud include critical services that don't even have the option of backing up offline. 

    tuxmask said:
    iCloud has the same problem. Can’t really trust the cloud. 
    Does it? Been using it since inception for all my files and haven't lost a single byte. 
    It's a mind blowing oversight by many these days.  Trusting cloud services completely is EXTREMELY risky for many reasons.  Yes, some cloud services make it nearly impossible to back up or access your data locally.  Those services should be avoided an alternatives considered whenever possible.

    And while iCloud is pretty rock solid these days, it's not always been the case.  I've had a few scenarios where the sync got all confused by different versions of documents and new versions ended up being overwritten by old ones.  I've also seen files end up getting corrupted requiring restore from other backups which isn't easily done through the iCloud interface.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra