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  • M4 Mac mini vs M2 Mac mini compared: Leaner and meaner

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    sigh.....it is a $400 dollar upgrade to get a 1 TB SSD.............
    watto_cobra

  • Nearly every teenager still has an iPhone, and most have AirPods too

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    sflagel said:
    Teens in the US, which has less than 5% of the world's population? (and yes, they are richer, but everyone in the world has one smartphone, and only one; so population, not income, is the key measure).
    Actually, it is income that is the key measure, as wealthier are more likely to spend money.  It should be no surprise then that although the iOS makes up less than a third of the global market share of smart phones, they make up nearly all of the profit that app developers earn on smart phones.
    watto_cobra

  • Delta CEO criticizes Microsoft's fragility, praises Apple's stability

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    Stabitha_Christie said:
    The EU didn’t force Microsoft to do anything. The EU had complaints from security software vendors and asked Microsoft to respond. Microsoft responded with a solution a solution that provided security vendors the ability to live patch the Windows kernel. It was Microsoft’s solution and it was completely voluntary. That Microsoft is trying to blame the EU is just completely dishonest on their part. 

    That AppleInsider repeated Microsoft’s talking points without validating the claims was just sloppy. Paul Thurrott, a long time proponent of Windows and Microsoft, actually did work to validate the claim and called it for the BS it was. That a Microsoft fan put in more effort than AI is just embarrassing.
    So, you are saying that if Microsoft would have responded with "No" or that "We are not going to change anything" that the EU would have allowed that?  Did the EU sign off on the solution that Microsoft provided?
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft China bans Android, demands staff use iPhones

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    ssfe11 said:
    Yup a Wall Gardened type of security does have its advantages. 

    The Walled Garden is not about security, but convenience. In computer science, it's well-known that the more convenience you have, the less security you intrinsically have. There's a direct correlation between the two. This is why Apple's business model has been so noticeable, because it flies in the face of that correlation. Apple users enjoy both increased security and increased convenience.

    The security itself is rooted in the foundational architecture of the hardware and software.

    Yeah, I can't say that the walled garden is about convience and not security.  If they didn't have a walled garden, they would still have the convience of the app store, you can have an app store without the walled garden.  The walled garden is about security, it is just done at the time of the app being submitted to the store versus having the user do the security check.  The inconvience is at the developer end vs the user end with the walled garden approach, so it gives the illusion that there is no convience penalty to the end user.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple green lights Epic Games Store in rapid reversal

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    VictorMortimer said:
    dix99 said:
    Apple needs to put a safety disclaimer, with regards to downloading from outside of the App Store. Now it’s at the owners risk, as these have not been certified with an Apple Gold Check mark, which means they’ve been tested at Apple. 
    Apple needs to NOT imply that apps from outside the Apple app store are somehow any less safe than apps from inside it, because if they lie like that they're going to find themselves with even higher fines.

    And that's a good thing.

    Apple has been treating you so badly for so long that you've developed something akin to Stockholm Syndrome.
    But it is not a lie, it is a simple statement stating that "apps downloaded outside of the app store have not been verified and tested by Apple, and as a result there could be an increase security risk."

    The whole point of Apple app store, the Windows store, and Google Playstore is that these apps have been verified and approved already for security.
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