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  • Apple's private Wi-Fi MAC addresses were security theater until iOS 17.1

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    dewme said:
    The term “security theatre” is kind of hip and making a comeback of late, but it’s debatable whether Apple truly intended to promote this feature as a security benefit to the public at large when they knew very well from the start that it had little to no real value and was simply performance art.

    It’s equally probable and I believe even more likely that this is simply a case of a pathetic level of security software implementation. The reason I say this is because the vast majority of Apple’s customers know little to nothing about this feature-fail and have no idea what a MAC address is, well, other than to think that a MAC address corresponds to the location of their closest McDonald’s restaurant. Plus, nobody was ever asked to remove their shoes. 
    Yeah, dude, all us Mac users are soooo stoopid. Much less intelligent than an average Windows or Linux user.  :# There’s no security holes like this in other OSes, either.

    I do so love when people like you display your ignorance and condescension. It makes you sound so smart.
    darkvaderwilliamlondon

  • Goldman Sachs regrets Apple Card, and is trying to escape the deal

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    Vampire squid says, “Ouchie!” Boo-hoo, hoo. 
    watto_cobra

  • Without irony, Microsoft CEO says Google unfairly dominates search

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    twolf2919 said:
    From my experience, Google has mostly just  been  a better search engine - and its marketshare reflects that.  Unlike Microsoft, Google didn't have the luxury of using its profits in another market to finance its entry into another and killing the competition there by essentially price dumping…

    Really? What do you call Android, Gmail, Workspace, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, et al? Google has tried to squeeze its wandering search tentacles into literally every market space by offering them for “free”. It simply bungled a lot of those efforts and excelled in others. But it definitely tried, and succeeded, in certain key markets.
    Alex1Npscooter63watto_cobra

  • Spotify head wants UK to show leadership and stop Apple's App Store dominance

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    Ek wants to switch the framing from digital (a game market) to a brick and mortar one (a mall) because it benefits him, despite the fact that it’s an inappropriate comparison. Mall owners don’t typically open stores that are direct competitors. However, they do typically own more than one property and are known to lock out businesses they don’t like. It’s just such a bad analogy overall.

    Anyway, digital marketplaces are unique in that there’s no limit on how many products or producers you can have present, which creates the discoverability and ratings problems.

    Apple could resolve this landlord/competitor issue by simply not charging anything to direct competitors — I believe the current rules and carve-outs pretty much accomplish this already. Ek is probably bunched up because he’d like Spotify to be a default install like Music is. Or Apple could have a mini-store for its products that’s in its own enclave, a la Arcade. Then only third party apps are on the App Store.

    Either way, I don’t see Apple apps as anti-competitive, I see them as a bulwark against large monopolistic developers ever again screwing Apple over the way they did in the ‘90s and ‘00s.

    I mean let’s face it — if not for Apple’s pioneering work on the iPod and iPhone (and iTunes) for paid music  (and Android’s copycatting) Spotify as we know it would not exist. 
    thtwatto_cobra

  • Cook justifies Apple's advertising on X as a 'town square' for the Internet

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    I really don’t know why AI opens comments on articles like this, like we don’t all know what each other’s opinions are — or don’t have other outlets. Yet many technical or tip articles have no open comments, where we could share practical things. Can’t even say “good job!” on most of them.

    Anyway, back to eviscerating one another. 
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingamFileMakerFeller